abject Meaning, Definition & Usage

adjective satellite of the most contemptible kind
scurvy; low-down; scummy; low; miserable.
- 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
adjective satellite most unfortunate or miserable
- the most abject slaves joined in the revolt
- abject poverty
adjective satellite showing utter resignation or hopelessness
unhopeful.
- abject surrender
adjective satellite showing humiliation or submissiveness
- an abject apology

L. abjectus, p. p. of abjicere to throw away; ab + jacere to throw. See Jet a shooting forth.

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.
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.

From Abject, a.

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.