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abject
/ ˈæbdʒɛkt /
adjective
- utterly wretched or hopeless
- miserable; forlorn; dejected
- indicating humiliation; submissive
an abject apology
- contemptible; despicable; servile
an abject liar
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Derived Forms
- ˈabjectly, adverb
- abˈjection, noun
- ˈabjectness, noun
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Other Words From
- ab·jectly adverb
- ab·jectness ab·jected·ness noun
- un·abject adjective
- un·abject·ly adverb
- un·abject·ness noun
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of abject1
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Example Sentences
Those facts, Paul said, indicated that Chairman Mao was a tyrannical monster whose people lived “in abject slavery.”
The girls helped their mothers prepare a simple meal as the men smoked outside and reflected on their abject state.
But 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.
No, 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.
The energetic, the daring, the high-spirited go, leaving the residue more abject and nerveless than ever.
In Scotland, even a beggar has none of those abject manners that denote his class elsewhere.
Meanwhile a sullen and abject melancholy took possession of his soul.
In the latter part of his reign, however, the Emperor passed under the dominion of the most abject superstition.
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