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(æbdʒekt)
1. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]
You use abject to emphasize that a situation or quality is extremely bad.
[emphasis]
Both of them died in abject poverty.
This scheme was an abject failure.
Synonyms: wretched, miserable, hopeless, dismal More Synonyms of abject
abjectly adverb
Both have failed abjectly.
2. graded adjective
If you describe someone as abject, you think they have no courage or respect for themselves.
[literary]
He sounded abject and eager to please.
He looked back at the abject, silent girl and repeated his question.
Synonyms: servile, humble, humiliating, craven More Synonyms of abject
More Synonyms of abject

abject in British English

(ˈæbdʒɛkt)
adjective
1. 
utterly wretched or hopeless
2. 
miserable; forlorn; dejected
3. 
indicating humiliation; submissive
an abject apology
4. 
contemptible; despicable; servile
an abject liar
Derived forms
abjection (abˈjection)
noun
abjectly (ˈabjectly)
adverb
abjectness (ˈabjectness)
noun
Word origin
C14: (in the sense: rejected, cast out): from Latin abjectus thrown or cast away, from abjicere, from ab- away + jacere to throw

abject in American English

(ˈæbˌdʒɛkt; æbˈdʒɛkt)
adjective
1. 
of the lowest degree; miserable; wretched
abject poverty
2. 
lacking self-respect; degraded
an abject coward
SIMILAR WORDS:  base
Derived forms
abjectly (ˈabˌjectly)
adverb
abjectness (ˈabˌjectness)
noun
Word origin
ME < L abjectus, pp. of abjicere, to throw away < ab-, from + jacere, to throw: see jet1

Examples of 'abject' in a sentence
abject

This time there was a little jostling followed by an abject apology.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
I had access to extreme beauty, yet we lived in abject poverty.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
Everything is so serious, so meticulous, all brought on by years of abject failure.
The Sun (2016)
Not at all well if one were to judge by their abject performance against Australia at the Principality stadium last weekend.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
It prompted an abject apology from the secret service.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Selling it to the very organisation you bought it from is abject humiliation.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Why support a system that had the great mass of the populace in chains to abject poverty?
Deborah Cadbury THE LOST KING OF FRANCE: Revolution, Revenge and the Search for Louis XVII (2002)
The feeling of abject misery stuck to me like permanently wet clothes.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
It was not a totally abject performance from his team.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
It has turned out an abject humiliation.
The Sun (2012)
They have made no difference and the people live in abject poverty.
The Sun (2014)
Does anyone honestly want to return to that abject misery?
The Sun (2015)
But they still produced a string of abject performances.
The Sun (2011)
They gave an abject display in a match that was as entertaining as watching fish being shot in a barrel.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
And it was probably just as well for them that so few were present to witness such an abject performance.
The Sun (2012)
Their failure was abject and total.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
The plan was an abject failure.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
What a moment of abject humiliation!
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
They produced a string of abject displays to lose 3-1.
The Sun (2008)
The failure is abject, irrespective of the result.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Outside the small, vibrant city centre there were signs of abject poverty.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
The Japanese staff bowed their heads in abject misery.
Max Hastings Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445 (2007)
And no wonder after this abject display from City.
The Sun (2010)
What can one say about such an abject humiliation at Wembley?
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
The abject failure to admit to this is the big deceit of British politics.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
He chose to live in abject poverty, sleeping rough and relying for his food on begging.
Paul Martin MAKING HAPPY PEOPLE (2005)
The editor avoided a prison sentence for'personal scurrilous abuse of a judge' only because of his abject apology.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)

In other languages
abject

British English: abject ADJECTIVE
You use abject to emphasize that a situation or quality is extremely bad.
Both of them died in abject poverty.
  • American English: abject
  • Brazilian Portuguese: deplorável
  • Chinese: 糟糕透顶的
  • European Spanish: sórdido
  • French: lamentable
  • German: bitter
  • Italian: estremopovertà, miseria
  • Japanese: 悲惨な
  • Korean: 비참한
  • European Portuguese: deplorável
  • Latin American Spanish: sórdido

1 (adjective) 
Definition
utterly miserable
Both of them suffered abject poverty.
Synonyms
wretched
The wretched look on the dog's face melted his heart.
miserable
They have so far accepted only a miserable 1,100 refugees.
hopeless
Even able pupils feel hopeless about job prospects.
dismal
You can't occupy yourself with dismal thoughts all the time.
outcast
pitiful
It was the most pitiful sight I had ever seen.
forlorn
He looked a forlorn figure as he limped off.
deplorable
Many of them work under deplorable conditions.
pitiable
Her grandmother seemed to her a pitiable figure.
2 (adjective) 
Definition
lacking all self-respect
He sounded abject and eager to please.
Synonyms
servile
He was subservient and servile.
humble
He came from a fairly humble, poor background.
humiliating
craven
cringing
fawning
flanked on all sides by fawning minions
submissive
Most doctors want their patients to be submissive.
grovelling
subservient
He expects all the staff to be subservient to him.
slavish
slavish devotion
mean
southern opportunists of mean origins
low
That was a really low trick.
obsequious
She is positively obsequious to anyone with a title.
Opposites
high
,
great
,
august
,
grand
,
distinguished
,
worthy
,
noble
,
elevated
,
eminent
,
dignified
,
lofty
,
exalted
,
patrician
3 (adjective) 
an abject traitor
Synonyms
despicable
He said it was a despicable crime.
base
Love has the power to overcome the baser emotions.
degraded
morally degraded individuals
worthless
Murphy was an evil, worthless man.
vile
a vile and despicable crime
sordid
He put his head in his hands as his sordid life was exposed.
debased
a dysfunctional and morally debased organization
reprehensible
ignominious
Many thought that he was doomed to ignominious failure.
contemptible
Her husband is a contemptible little man.
It was an utterly contemptible thing to do.
dishonourable
He insisted he had done nothing dishonourable.
ignoble
an ignoble episode from their country's past
detestable
I find their poor work ethic detestable.
scungy (Australian, New Zealand)

Additional synonyms

in the sense of base
Definition
dishonourable or immoral
Love has the power to overcome the baser emotions.
Synonyms
dishonourable,
evil,
corrupt,
infamous,
disgraceful,
vulgar,
shameful,
vile,
immoral,
scandalous,
wicked,
sordid,
abject,
despicable,
depraved,
ignominious,
disreputable,
contemptible,
villainous,
ignoble,
discreditable,
scungy (Australian, New Zealand)
in the sense of contemptible
Definition
deserving to be despised or hated
Her husband is a contemptible little man.It was an utterly contemptible thing to do.
Synonyms
despicable,
mean,
low,
base,
cheap (informal),
worthless,
shameful,
shabby,
vile,
degenerate,
low-down (informal),
paltry,
pitiful,
abject,
ignominious,
measly (informal),
scurvy (old-fashioned),
detestable,
odious
in the sense of debased
a dysfunctional and morally debased organization
Synonyms
degraded,
corrupt,
fallen,
low,
base,
abandoned,
perverted,
vile,
sordid,
depraved,
debauched,
scungy (Australian, New Zealand)

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