Word Meanings - ABJECT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Cast down; low-lying. From the safe shore their floating carcasses And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood. Milton. 2. Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile;

Additional info about word: ABJECT

1. Cast down; low-lying. From the safe shore their floating carcasses And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood. Milton. 2. 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ABJECT)

• Low
• Abated
• sunk
• depressed
• stunted
• declining
• deep
• subsided
• inaudible
• cheap
• gentle
• dejected
• degraded
• mean
• abject
• base
• unworthy
• lowly
• feeble
• moderate
• frugal
• reprieved
• subdued
• reduced
• poor
• Miserable
• Abject
• forlorn
• pitiable
• wretched
• worthless
• despicable
• disconsolate
• Servile
• Obsequious
• cringing
• sequacious
• menial
• sneaking
• low
• Slavish
• drudging
• Vile
• Cheap
• worthier
• valueless
• hateful
• bad
• impure
• vicious
• abandoned
• sinful
• sordid
• ignoble
• wicked
• villainous

Related words: (words related to ABJECT)

• DEJECTION
  1. A casting down; depression. Hallywell. 2. The act of humbling or abasing one's self. Adoration implies submission and dejection. Bp. Pearson. 3. Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy. What besides,
• DEJECTORY
  1. Having power, or tending, to cast down. 2. Promoting evacuations by stool. Ferrand.
• SORDIDNESS
  The quality or state of being sordid.
• DECLINATION
  The angular distance of any object from the celestial equator, either northward or southward. (more info) 1. The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head. 2. The act or state of falling off or declining
• ABATVOIX
  The sounding-board over a pulpit or rostrum.
• CRINGLE
  An iron or pope thimble or grommet worked into or attached to the edges and corners of a sail; -- usually in the plural. The cringles are used for making fast the bowline bridles, earings, etc. (more info) 1. A withe for fastening a gate.
• MISERABLENESS
  The state or quality of being miserable.
• CHEAPLY
  At a small price; at a low value; in a common or inferior manner.
• ABJECT
  1. Cast down; low-lying. From the safe shore their floating carcasses And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood. Milton. 2. Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile;
• REDUCEMENT
  Reduction. Milton.
• FRUGALNESS
  , n. Quality of being frugal; frugality.
• SERVILELY
  In a servile manner; slavishly.
• MISERABLE
  1. Very unhappy; wretched. What hopes delude thee, miserable man Dryden. 2. Causing unhappiness or misery. What 's more miserable than discontent Shak. 3. Worthless; mean; despicable; as, a miserable fellow; a miserable dinner. Miserable comforters
• ABATER
  One who, or that which, abates.
• FRUGALLY
  Thriftily; prudently.
• DESPICABLE
  Fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; as, a despicable man; despicable company; a despicable gift. Syn. -- Contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; pitiful; paltry; sordid; low; base. See Contemptible.
• SERVILENESS
  Quality of being servile; servility.
• GENTLE
  1. To make genteel; to raise from the vulgar; to ennoble. Shak. 2. To make smooth, cozy, or agreeable. To gentle life's descent, We shut our eyes, and think it is a plain. Young. 3. To make kind and docile, as a horse.
• ABATE
  1. To decrease, or become less in strength or violence; as, pain abates, a storm abates. The fury of Glengarry . . . rapidly abated. Macaulay. 2. To be defeated, or come to naught; to fall through; to fail; as, a writ abates. To abate
• REDUCE
  To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from
• BRUNSWICK GREEN
  An oxychloride of copper, used as a green pigment; also, a carbonate of copper similarly employed.
• CATAMENIAL
  Pertaining to the catamenia, or menstrual discharges.
• BAILIWICK
  The precincts within which a bailiff has jurisdiction; the limits of a bailiff's authority.
• RABATINE
  A collar or cape. Sir W. Scott.