definition of the word abject

From Latin abjectus, past participle of abjicere to reject, formed from ab- + jacere, to throw

• enPR: ăbʹjĕkt, IPA: /ˈæbdʒɛkt/, SAMPA: /"{bdZEkt/ or enPR: ăbʹjĭkt, IPA: /ˈæbdʒɪkt/, SAMPA: /"{bdZIkt/
• Rhymes: -ɛkt
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abject (comparative abjecter or more abject, superlative abjectest or most abject)

1. (obsolete) Cast down; low-lying.

   "So thick bestrown abject and lost lay these, covering the flood." - Milton

2. Sunk to a low condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; grovelling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts.

   "Base and abject flatterers." - Addison

   "An abject liar." - Macaulay

   "And banish hence these abject, lowly dreams." - Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, I-ii

   "He sat obediently with that tentative and abject eagerness of a man who has but one pleasure left and whom the world can reach only through one sense, for he was both blind and deaf." - 1931 Faulkner, Sanctuary, ii

• beggarly, contemptible, cringing, degraded, groveling, ignoble, mean, mean-spirited, slavish, vile, worthless

• abjectly
• abjectness

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