Definition of Abject

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Abject

Cast down; low-lying.

Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts.

To cast off or down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower; to debase.

A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; a castaway.

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Abject Quotations

The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The first time I got up in front of an audience was terror, abject terror, which continued for another four or five years. There still is, a little bit.
Bob Newhart

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
Baruch Spinoza

Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.
Kofi Annan

Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity of Man which the Hand of Nature had implanted in us, for great and useful purposes.
George Mason

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
Oliver Goldsmith

If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined.
Mason Cooley

We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources.
Jane Goodall

I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist.
Berkeley Breathed

Abject Translations

abject in Dutch is verachtelijk, nietswaardig
abject in Italian is miserabile, sprezzante, infame
abject in Norwegian is ynke
abject in Spanish is abyecto, vil, cuitado, despreciable

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