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English Dictionary: abject by the DICT Development Group
4 results for abject
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
abject
adj
  1. of the most contemptible kind; "abject cowardice"; "a low stunt to pull"; "a low-down sneak"; "his miserable treatment of his family"; "You miserable skunk!"; "a scummy rabble"; "a scurvy trick"
    Synonym(s): abject, low, low-down, miserable, scummy, scurvy
  2. most unfortunate or miserable; "the most abject slaves joined in the revolt"; "abject poverty"
  3. showing utter resignation or hopelessness; "abject surrender"
    Synonym(s): abject, unhopeful
  4. showing humiliation or submissiveness; "an abject apology"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Abject \Ab*ject"\, v. t. [From {Abject}, a.]
      To cast off or down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower;
      to debase. [Obs.] --Donne.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Abject \Ab"ject\, n.
      A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; a
      castaway. [Obs.]
  
               Shall these abjects, these victims, these outcasts,
               know any thing of pleasure?                     --I. Taylor.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Abject \Ab"ject\, a. [L. abjectus, p. p. of abjicere to throw
      away; ab + jacere to throw. See {Jet} a shooting forth.]
      1. Cast down; low-lying. [Obs.]
  
                     From the safe shore their floating carcasses And
                     broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown Abject and
                     lost lay these, covering the flood.   --Milton.
  
      2. Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded;
            servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture,
            fortune, thoughts. [bd]Base and abject flatterers.[b8]
            --Addison. [bd]An abject liar.[b8] --Macaulay.
  
                     And banish hence these abject, lowly dreams. --Shak.
  
      Syn: Mean; groveling; cringing; mean-spirited; slavish;
               ignoble; worthless; vile; beggarly; contemptible;
               degraded.
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