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ab·ject A0016400 (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.]
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