Definitions from Wiktionary (abject)
▸ adjective: Existing in or sunk to a low condition, position, or state; contemptible, despicable, miserable.
▸ adjective: (by extension)
▸ adjective: (chiefly with a negative connotation) Complete; downright; utter.
▸ adjective: (rare) Lower than nearby areas; low-lying.
▸ adjective: Of a person: cast down in hope or spirit; showing utter helplessness, hopelessness, or resignation; also, grovelling; ingratiating; servile.
▸ adjective: (sociology, usually nominalized) Marginalized as deviant.
▸ noun: A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; an oppressed person; an outcast; also, such people as a class.
▸ verb: To cast off or out (someone or something); to reject, especially as contemptible or inferior.
▸ verb: To cast down (someone or something); to abase; to debase; to degrade; to lower; also, to forcibly impose obedience or servitude upon (someone); to subjugate.
▸ verb: (mycology) Of a fungus: to (forcibly) give off (spores or sporidia).
reduce to abject poverty,
abject horror,
abject failures,
abject behaviour,
opposite of abject,
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▸ adjective: Existing in or sunk to a low condition, position, or state; contemptible, despicable, miserable.
▸ adjective: (by extension)
▸ adjective: (chiefly with a negative connotation) Complete; downright; utter.
▸ adjective: (rare) Lower than nearby areas; low-lying.
▸ adjective: Of a person: cast down in hope or spirit; showing utter helplessness, hopelessness, or resignation; also, grovelling; ingratiating; servile.
▸ adjective: (sociology, usually nominalized) Marginalized as deviant.
▸ noun: A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; an oppressed person; an outcast; also, such people as a class.
▸ verb: To cast off or out (someone or something); to reject, especially as contemptible or inferior.
▸ verb: To cast down (someone or something); to abase; to debase; to degrade; to lower; also, to forcibly impose obedience or servitude upon (someone); to subjugate.
▸ verb: (mycology) Of a fungus: to (forcibly) give off (spores or sporidia).
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resigned,
low-down,
contemptible,
low,
miserable,
unfortunate,
hopeless,
submissive,
scummy,
unhopeful,
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