Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: abject
IPA transcription: ['æbdʒɛkt]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: abject, low, low-down, miserable, scummy, scurvy
    Meaning: of the most contemptible kind; "abject cowardice"; "a low stunt to pull"; "a low-down sneak"; "his miserable treatment of his family"; "You miserable skunk!"; "a scummy rabble"; "a scurvy trick"
  • Synonyms: abject
    Meaning: most unfortunate or miserable; "the most abject slaves joined in the revolt"; "abject poverty"
Usage examples
  • 'Is it possible,' she thought, 'that I am abject?'
  • The young husband's apologies were profuse and abject.
  • Love did make one abject, for it was full of fear of hurting the beloved.
  • With a final, most abject and cringing bow, the old Jew shuffled out of the room.
  • He turned at last to Mrs. Mitchell, who, but for her rage, would have been in an abject condition.
  • Yes, she was extremely abject, she reflected, lying awake at night considering her behaviour during the day.
  • The more abject of the two victims continued motionless; but the other bounded from the place at the cry, with the activity and swiftness of a deer.
  • At the base there was a crowd of men, with emaciated forms and faces, and coarse, squalid attire, who looked like the most abject paupers, and seemed the lowest in the land.
  • Instead of mingling with his tribe, however, he sat apart, a solitary being in a multitude, his form shrinking into a crouching and abject attitude, as if anxious to fill as little space as possible.
  • I grant you that it is as much of a disease as scarlet, typhoid, or any other, but the mind has not yet been discovered that can find a remedy for it short of abject poverty, and even that has been known to fail."