abject (ăbj&ebreve_;kt), a. [L. abjectus, p. p. of abjicere to throw away; ab + jacere to throw. See Jet a shooting forth.] 1. Cast down; low-lying. [Obs.]
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From the safe shore their floating carcasses
And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown
Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood. Milton.
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2. Degraded; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts. “Base and abject flatterers.” Addison. “An abject liar.” Macaulay.
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And banish hence these abject, lowly dreams. Shak.
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3. Sunk to a low condition; down in spirit or hope; miserable; -- of persons.
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4. Humiliating; degrading; wretched; -- of situations; as, abject poverty.
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Syn. -- Mean; groveling; cringing; mean-spirited; slavish; ignoble; worthless; vile; beggarly; contemptible; degraded.
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Abject (ăbj&ebreve_;kt), n. A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; a castaway. [Obs.]
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Shall these abjects, these victims, these outcasts, know any thing of pleasure? I. Taylor.
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