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abject 音標拼音: ['æbdʒɛkt] a. 不幸的,可憐的,悲慘的 不幸的,可憐的,悲慘的 abject adj 1: 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" [ synonym: { abject}, { low}, { low- down}, { miserable}, { scummy}, { scurvy}] 2: most unfortunate or miserable; " the most abject slaves joined in the revolt"; " abject poverty" 3: showing utter resignation or hopelessness; " abject surrender" [ synonym: { abject}, { unhopeful}] 4: showing humiliation or submissiveness; " an abject apology" Abject \ Ab* ject"\ ([ a^] b* j[ e^] kt"), v. t. [ From { Abject}, a.] To cast off or down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower; to debase. [ Obs.] -- Donne. [ 1913 Webster]
Abject \ Ab" ject\ ([ a^] b" j[ e^] kt), n. A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; a castaway. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] Shall these abjects, these victims, these outcasts, know any thing of pleasure? -- I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster]
abject \ ab" ject\ ([ a^] b" j[ e^] 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.] [ 1913 Webster] From the safe shore their floating carcasses And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Degraded; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts. " Base and abject flatterers." -- Addison. " An abject liar." -- Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster] And banish hence these abject, lowly dreams. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Sunk to a low condition; down in spirit or hope; miserable; -- of persons. [ 1913 Webster] 4. Humiliating; degrading; wretched; -- of situations; as, abject poverty. [ PJC] Syn: Mean; groveling; cringing; mean- spirited; slavish; ignoble; worthless; vile; beggarly; contemptible; degraded. [ 1913 Webster] 122 Moby Thesaurus words for " abject": abominable, accepting, acquiescent, agreeable, apologetic, arrant, assenting, atrocious, backscratching, base, beggarly, bootlicking, cheesy, complaisant, compliable, compliant, complying, consenting, contemptible, contrite, cowering, crawling, cringing, crouching, crummy, debased, degraded, depraved, despicable, dirty, disgusting, execrable, fawning, flagrant, flattering, footlicking, foul, fulsome, grave, gross, groveling, hangdog, heinous, humble, humble- minded, humble- spirited, humbled, humblehearted, ingratiating, little, low, low- down, lumpen, mangy, mealymouthed, mean, measly, meek, meek- minded, meek- spirited, meekhearted, melted, miserable, monstrous, nefarious, nondissenting, nonresistant, nonresisting, nonresistive, obedient, obeisant, obnoxious, obsequious, odious, on bended knee, paltry, parasitic, passive, penitent, penitential, penitentiary, petty, poky, poor, poor in spirit, prostrate, rank, repentant, reptilian, resigned, scabby, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, servile, shabby, sheepish, shoddy, small, sniveling, softened, sponging, squalid, submissive, subservient, supine, sycophantic, timeserving, toadeating, toadying, toadyish, touched, truckling, unassertive, uncomplaining, underfoot, unmentionable, unresistant, unresisting, vile, wretched |
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