abject
utterly hopeless, miserable, humiliating, or wretched: abject poverty.
contemptible; despicable; base-spirited: an abject coward.
shamelessly servile; slavish.
Obsolete. cast aside.
Origin of abject
1Other words for abject
Opposites for abject
Other words from abject
- ab·ject·ly, adverb
- ab·ject·ness, ab·ject·ed·ness, noun
- un·ab·ject, adjective
- un·ab·ject·ly, adverb
- un·ab·ject·ness, noun
Words that may be confused with abject
- abject , object
Words Nearby abject
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How to use abject in a sentence
Director Naoki Yoshida has said that it was important to the company that a mainline “Final Fantasy” game isn’t regarded as an abject catastrophe.
I went within a month from having a nanny and living in a nice house and everything to just really abject poverty.
The coming war on the hidden algorithms that trap people in poverty | Karen Hao | December 4, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewOur main message is that whoever wins, it will not be enough for him to fix the US’s abject failures in handling the pandemic and to take climate change seriously.
America’s technological leadership is at stake in this election | Gideon Lichfield | October 29, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewSo this decision to open things back up, right before Labor Day, from people who do believe in collective action to contain this virus, is abject nonsense.
America’s abject failure to deal adequately with the biggest global health emergency in a century has prompted some experts to argue that the pandemic may serve as a geopolitical inflection point.
Covid-19 and the geopolitics of American decline | Katie McLean | August 19, 2020 | MIT Technology Review
Those facts, Paul said, indicated that Chairman Mao was a tyrannical monster whose people lived “in abject slavery.”
The Secret to Rand Paul’s Foreign Policy: His Father | W. James Antle III | September 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe girls helped their mothers prepare a simple meal as the men smoked outside and reflected on their abject state.
ISIS Robs Christians Fleeing Its Edict in Mosul: Convert, Leave, or Die | Andrew Slater | July 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut in any narrative, if the protagonist is going to be at the center of a sea of abject joy and triumph, someone has to lose.
Featuring headache-inducing black-and-red graphics, the Virtual Boy was an abject failure.
The Game You Wear on Your Face: Virtual Reality Is Finally Here | Alec Kubas-Meyer | May 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTNo, this brief delay must be a sign that the implementation of the Affordable Care Act is destined to result in abject failure.
A more abject, humiliated man than I stand at this hour in my own eyes never yet took his sins upon his soul.
Elster's Folly | Mrs. Henry WoodThe energetic, the daring, the high-spirited go, leaving the residue more abject and nerveless than ever.
Glances at Europe | Horace GreeleyIn Scotland, even a beggar has none of those abject manners that denote his class elsewhere.
Friend Mac Donald | Max O'RellMeanwhile a sullen and abject melancholy took possession of his soul.
The History of England from the Accession of James II. | Thomas Babington MacaulayIn the latter part of his reign, however, the Emperor passed under the dominion of the most abject superstition.
The Catacombs of Rome | William Henry Withrow
British Dictionary definitions for abject
/ (ˈæbdʒɛkt) /
utterly wretched or hopeless
miserable; forlorn; dejected
indicating humiliation; submissive: an abject apology
contemptible; despicable; servile: an abject liar
Origin of abject
1Derived forms of abject
- abjection, noun
- abjectly, adverb
- abjectness, noun
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