| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | ab·ject |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   b j kt , b-jkt |
| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Brought low in condition or status. See synonyms at mean2. 2. Being of the most contemptible kind: abject cowardice. 3. Being of the most miserable kind; wretched: abject poverty. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English, outcast, from Latin abiectus, past participle of abicere, to cast away : ab-, from; see ab–1 + iacere, to throw; see y - in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | abjectly —ADVERB
ab·jectness, ab·jection —NOUN
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