Definitions for abject

abject ab·ject

Spelling: [ab-jekt, ab-jekt]
IPA: /ˈæb dʒɛkt, æbˈdʒɛkt/

Abject is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 85 anagrams from letters in abject (abcejt).

Definitions for abject

adjective

  1. utterly hopeless, miserable, humiliating, or wretched:
  2. contemptible; despicable; base-spirited:
  3. shamelessly servile; slavish.
  4. Obsolete. cast aside.

Origin of abject

1400-50; late Middle English Latin abjectus thrown down (past participle of abicere, abjicere), equivalent to ab- ab- + -jec- throw + -tus past participle suffix

Examples for abject

To all outward seeming, nerveless, emotionless, an abject creature.

No, this brief delay must be a sign that the implementation of the Affordable Care Act is destined to result in abject failure.

The girls helped their mothers prepare a simple meal as the men smoked outside and reflected on their abject state.

It was a sad sight—that abject hopeless misery I saw this afternoon.

Those facts, Paul said, indicated that Chairman Mao was a tyrannical monster whose people lived “in abject slavery.”

Since their meeting the young man had been her abject cavalier.

Featuring headache-inducing black-and-red graphics, the Virtual Boy was an abject failure.

Better live, to write your own tale than be the abject one to another.

"Don't you say one word," she answered, with an air of abject confession.

But in any narrative, if the protagonist is going to be at the center of a sea of abject joy and triumph, someone has to lose.

Word Value for abject
Scrable

17

Words with friends

21

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