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abject ab"ject ([a^]b"j[e^]kt), a. [L. abjectus, p. p. of abjicere to throw away; ab + jacere to throw. See Jet a shooting forth.] 1. Cast down; low-lying. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

From the safe shore their floating carcasses And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood. --Milton. [1913 Webster]

2. Degraded; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts. ``Base and abject flatterers. --Addison. ``An abject liar. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]

And banish hence these abject, lowly dreams. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

3. Sunk to a low condition; down in spirit or hope; miserable; -- of persons. [1913 Webster]

4. Humiliating; degrading; wretched; -- of situations; as, abject poverty. [PJC]

Syn: Mean; groveling; cringing; mean-spirited; slavish; ignoble; worthless; vile; beggarly; contemptible; degraded. [1913 Webster]

Abject Ab*ject" ([a^]b*j[e^]kt"), v. t. [From Abject, a.] To cast off or down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower; to debase. [Obs.] --Donne. [1913 Webster]

Abject Ab"ject ([a^]b"j[e^]kt), n. A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; a castaway. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

Shall these abjects, these victims, these outcasts, know any thing of pleasure? --I. Taylor. [1913 Webster]


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to spanish


abject [æbd?ekt] menesteroso, miserable, necesitado, pobre
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to french


abject [æbd?ekt] abject
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abject, lâche
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misérable, pauvre
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to deutch


abject [æbd?ekt] elend, verächtlich
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to italian


abject miserabile, misero, povero
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