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Definition of abject in English: abjectadjective ˈabdʒɛkt 1(of something bad) experienced or present to the maximum degree. his letter plunged her into abject misery Example sentencesExamples - Thus imagine the extent to which, for three quarters of the planet's population, most of whom live in abject and dire poverty, colonialism remains an even more tangible presence.
- After all, there are only two ways to divert the attention of the international community from the more pressing and immediate problems of abject hunger and poverty.
- However with no middle class, the vast bulk of its people are living in abject and unsustainable poverty.
- The abject misery, the clearest glimpse of absolute evil, is almost impossible to describe.
- I'm usually a sucker for full-on bad taste, but this was just so abject.
- He looked about at all the imitations of himself, like a ring of mirrors each showing California in a state of abject want.
- And now here I was, sitting next to the girl who had petrified me for most of my school years, and watching how abject misery had smudged her beauty.
- I mean, when I think of Cambodia in the 1970s, I think abject misery, suffering and genocide on a Stalin-like scale.
- The setting is one of abject poverty and misery, yet the upbeat caption tells us that even victims of disaster need a good shoeshine.
- Just let me fall into bed and leave me to my abject misery.
- A small exploitative class of intermediaries benefited enormously from the neocolonial relationship, but the masses were sunk in abject poverty and misery.
- Cassandra, her older sister Rose and her younger brother Thomas are living in poverty even more abject than the Bastables, in a broken - down castle.
- Behind the colourless doors of these homes were people who still live in the misery of abject poverty.
- People are having fun in this town, it's not all poverty and abject misery.
- The abject misery and utter abandon is positively indescribable.
- The free market economy did not alleviate the abject misery of the poor.
- We cannot claim to be enjoying 15 years of Independence, while some groups live in ‘slavery’, misery and abject poverty.
- Grant did not affect the mock shock of someone who has experienced abject poverty first-hand for the first time on any of her trips.
- 1.1 (of a situation or condition) extremely unpleasant and degrading.
the abject condition of the peasants Example sentencesExamples - A lot has been written about the abject state of health in Africa and elsewhere in the developing world.
- She saw firsthand the abject conditions of the working people there.
- One never knows why these people are thrown into a society where there is no development and these people are living in horrendous conditions of abject poverty.
- On shore, the housing conditions were abject.
- He said that HIV does cause AIDS but there are also other causes such as abject social conditions.
- Indeed, they were intended to insult and humiliate with reference to such an abject condition.
- Most live in conditions so abject that there is little to distinguish them from the most wretched chattel slaves of the past.
- He was compelled to comment on the causes of the tragedy and the abject conditions that prevailed on the reservation.
- Few will dispute that a person in abject condition suffers a profound affront to his sense of dignity and intrinsic worth.
- I remember Mississippi tin shacks - those were abject conditions.
Synonyms wretched, miserable, hopeless, pathetic, pitiful, pitiable, piteous, stark, sorry, forlorn, woeful, lamentable, degrading, appalling, atrocious, awful
2(of a person or their behaviour) completely without pride or dignity; self-abasing. Example sentencesExamples - Are parallels to the anarchic sensibilities of our own abject artists valid?
- Isn't humiliation on your own TV network, followed by an abject apology, enough?
- I compose abject apologies in my head and fill out the registration form.
- I returned from Siberia to a mountain of furious letters to which I could only write abject apologies.
- If so, I would have to address it as men have always done: by persistence, alternating reasoned argument with abject pleas and fawning adulation.
- On the few occasions I was driven to use such chastisement, it felt like an abject admission of parental failure.
- I answered, staggered at this abject rudeness.
- Now it was back to the bad old days of abject surrender.
- That would do a whole lot more for civilised and democratic behaviour than abject capitulation to these self-evident hypocrites.
- This enhances our shock when the abject figure of Winston is finally revealed, stripped of all humanity.
- Apologies, official, abject, routinely demanded, and formally offered, are considered not just a right but a requirement.
- Fine: then what is called for now is not triumphalism and gloating, but an abject apology.
- The regime controlled every aspect of life and reduced everyone to the level of abject obedience through terror.
- My behaviour, when I am conducting perfectly legitimate activity such as registering an insurance claim, is one of abject apology.
- From a position of optimism generated by a highly impressive presentation, potential winners had suddenly become abject losers, all the long hours of campaigning reduced to nothing.
- Surely no financial inducement can be worth such abject loss of dignity.
- The thrust of both books is his failure to protect the national interests of Britain and his abject subservience to the United States.
- Since they are abject human beings, he implies, he does not have to engage them at that level.
- However, this is actually an abject admission of failure.
- It is behaviour of such abject venality as to be almost beneath contempt.
Synonyms obsequious, grovelling, crawling, creeping, fawning, toadyish, servile, cringing, snivelling, ingratiating, toadying, sycophantic, submissive, craven, humiliating
Origin Late Middle English (in the sense 'rejected'): from Latin abjectus, past participle of abicere 'reject', from ab- 'away' + jacere 'to throw'. jet from late 16th century: The name jet for a hard black semi-precious mineral comes ultimately from the Greek word gagatēs ‘from Gagai’, a town in Asia Minor. When we refer to a jet of water or gas, or a jet aircraft, we are using a quite different word. It comes from a late 16th-century verb meaning ‘to jut out’, from French jeter ‘to throw’, which goes back to the Latin jacere ‘to throw’. Jut (mid 16th century) is a variant of jet in this sense. Jacere is found in a large number of English words including abject (Late Middle English) literally ‘thrown away’; conjecture (Late Middle English) ‘throw together’; deject (Late Middle English) ‘thrown down’; ejaculate (late 16th century) from jaculum ‘dart, something thrown’; eject (Late Middle English) ‘throw out’; inject (late 16th century) ‘throw in’; jetty (Late Middle English) something thrown out into the water; project (Late Middle English) ‘throw forth’; subject (Middle English) ‘thrown under’; trajectory (late 17th century) ‘something thrown across’. Especially if you use budget airlines, air travel today is far from glamorous, but in the 1950s the idea of flying abroad by jet aircraft was new and sophisticated. At the start of that decade people who flew for pleasure came to be known as the jet set.
Definition of abject in US English: abjectadjective 1(of something bad) experienced or present to the maximum degree. his letter plunged her into abject misery Example sentencesExamples - Just let me fall into bed and leave me to my abject misery.
- Thus imagine the extent to which, for three quarters of the planet's population, most of whom live in abject and dire poverty, colonialism remains an even more tangible presence.
- We cannot claim to be enjoying 15 years of Independence, while some groups live in ‘slavery’, misery and abject poverty.
- Grant did not affect the mock shock of someone who has experienced abject poverty first-hand for the first time on any of her trips.
- He looked about at all the imitations of himself, like a ring of mirrors each showing California in a state of abject want.
- And now here I was, sitting next to the girl who had petrified me for most of my school years, and watching how abject misery had smudged her beauty.
- The abject misery and utter abandon is positively indescribable.
- Behind the colourless doors of these homes were people who still live in the misery of abject poverty.
- I'm usually a sucker for full-on bad taste, but this was just so abject.
- Cassandra, her older sister Rose and her younger brother Thomas are living in poverty even more abject than the Bastables, in a broken - down castle.
- I mean, when I think of Cambodia in the 1970s, I think abject misery, suffering and genocide on a Stalin-like scale.
- After all, there are only two ways to divert the attention of the international community from the more pressing and immediate problems of abject hunger and poverty.
- The abject misery, the clearest glimpse of absolute evil, is almost impossible to describe.
- People are having fun in this town, it's not all poverty and abject misery.
- The setting is one of abject poverty and misery, yet the upbeat caption tells us that even victims of disaster need a good shoeshine.
- The free market economy did not alleviate the abject misery of the poor.
- However with no middle class, the vast bulk of its people are living in abject and unsustainable poverty.
- A small exploitative class of intermediaries benefited enormously from the neocolonial relationship, but the masses were sunk in abject poverty and misery.
2(of a person or their behavior) completely without pride or dignity; self-abasing. Example sentencesExamples - Since they are abject human beings, he implies, he does not have to engage them at that level.
- Isn't humiliation on your own TV network, followed by an abject apology, enough?
- On the few occasions I was driven to use such chastisement, it felt like an abject admission of parental failure.
- My behaviour, when I am conducting perfectly legitimate activity such as registering an insurance claim, is one of abject apology.
- If so, I would have to address it as men have always done: by persistence, alternating reasoned argument with abject pleas and fawning adulation.
- That would do a whole lot more for civilised and democratic behaviour than abject capitulation to these self-evident hypocrites.
- The thrust of both books is his failure to protect the national interests of Britain and his abject subservience to the United States.
- However, this is actually an abject admission of failure.
- I returned from Siberia to a mountain of furious letters to which I could only write abject apologies.
- Now it was back to the bad old days of abject surrender.
- This enhances our shock when the abject figure of Winston is finally revealed, stripped of all humanity.
- The regime controlled every aspect of life and reduced everyone to the level of abject obedience through terror.
- I answered, staggered at this abject rudeness.
- It is behaviour of such abject venality as to be almost beneath contempt.
- I compose abject apologies in my head and fill out the registration form.
- From a position of optimism generated by a highly impressive presentation, potential winners had suddenly become abject losers, all the long hours of campaigning reduced to nothing.
- Are parallels to the anarchic sensibilities of our own abject artists valid?
- Apologies, official, abject, routinely demanded, and formally offered, are considered not just a right but a requirement.
- Surely no financial inducement can be worth such abject loss of dignity.
- Fine: then what is called for now is not triumphalism and gloating, but an abject apology.
Synonyms obsequious, grovelling, crawling, creeping, fawning, toadyish, servile, cringing, snivelling, ingratiating, toadying, sycophantic, submissive, craven, humiliating
Origin Late Middle English (in the sense ‘rejected’): from Latin abjectus, past participle of abicere ‘reject’, from ab- ‘away’ + jacere ‘to throw’. |