ab·ject

(ăb′jĕkt′, ăb-jĕkt′)

adj.

1. Extremely contemptible or degrading: abject cowardice. See Synonyms at base².

2. Being of the most miserable kind; wretched: abject poverty; abject grief.

3. Thoroughgoing; complete. Used to modify pejorative nouns: an abject failure.

4. Extremely submissive or self-abasing: abject apologies.

[Middle English, outcast, from Latin abiectus, past participle of abicere, to cast away : ab-, from; see ab-¹ + iacere, to throw; see yē- in Indo-European roots.]

ab′ject′ly adv.

ab·ject′ness n.

ab·jec′tion n.

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Translations

abaissement abjection

abiezione

abjectness

[ˈæbdʒektnɪs] N

1. (= wretchedness) [of conditions] → lo miserable; [of position] → lo indigno
the abjectness of the conditions in which they live → lo miserable de las condiciones en que viven
we were shocked at the abjectness of their performance → nos dejo horrorizados lo mal que lo hicieron

2. (= grovelling quality) the abjectness of his apology → el tono sumiso y arrepentido de su disculpa

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abjectness

(= wretchedness) → Erbärmlichkeit f

(= servility) (of apology) → Demut f; (of person, gesture also) → Unterwürfigkeit f

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