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Entry 6 senses · 3 variants Webster, 1913

abject

/(ăb"jĕkt)/ · ab·ject · IPA /ˈæbˌd͡ʒɛkt/
01 a. Cast down; low-lying.
  1. 1.
    Cast down; low-lying.[Obs.]
    “From the safe shore their floating carcasses And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood.” — Milton.
  2. 2.
    Degraded; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts.
    “And banish hence these abject, lowly dreams.” — Shak.
  3. 3.
    Sunk to a low condition; down in spirit or hope; miserable; -- of persons.
  4. 4.
    Humiliating; degrading; wretched; -- of situations; as, abject poverty.
Syn. Mean; groveling; cringing; mean-spirited; slavish; ignoble; worthless; vile; beggarly; contemptible; degraded.
02 v. t. To cast off or down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower; to debase.
  1. 1.
    To cast off or down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower; to debase.[Obs.]
03 n. A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; a castaway.
  1. 1.
    A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; a castaway.[Obs.]
    “Shall these abjects, these victims, these outcasts, know any thing of pleasure?” — I. Taylor.