Thesaurus: abject

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1. a. Cast down; low-lying.
2. a. Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts.
3. a. To cast off or down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower; to debase.
4. n. A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; a castaway.
5. adj. of the most contemptible kind
6. adj. most unfortunate or miserable
7. adj. showing utter resignation or hopelessness
8. adj. showing humiliation or submissiveness
9. 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. "Base and abject flatterers." Addison. "An abject liar." Macaulay. And banish hence these abject, lowly dreams. Shak. Syn. -- Mean; groveling; cringing; mean-spirited; slavish; ignoble; worthless; vile; beggarly; contemptible; degraded. To cast off or down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower; to debase. [Obs.] Donne. 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.
10. To cast off or down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower; todebase. [Obs.] Donne.
11. j:100 s. of the most contemptible kind s. most unfortunate or miserable s. showing utter resignation or hopelessness s. showing humiliation or submissiveness