abject
11
8.2
- adjective
- /ˈæbʤɛkt/
- Formal
:
miserable
- There will be times of abject frustration, disbelief, and rebellion.
- abject poverty
- abject conditions
We wake up every two hours crying in in abject fear and hunger.
- We wake up every two hours crying in in abject fear and hunger.
- So we grow up next to like abject poverty next to abject wealth.
- And then I went out in abject terror.
- And although my childhood was filled with many happy memories, it was also spent in abject poverty.
- What we don't want is successes in mortality and people still living in abject poverty.
- He wrote a book called Hillbilly Elegy talking about coming out of this abject poverty, but not as a lefty.
- I'm living in abject poverty and I've given all the money to the then wife.
- But I, I, I think of it more on the human level, left all these people to, to, to abject poverty.
Examples
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But now a look of abject fear comes over her face.
Fiction book (1992) -
I was born and raised in abject poverty in a small town in Iowa.
Fiction book (2001) -
Nothing to look forward to but abject poverty.
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And although my childhood was filled with many happy memories, it was also spent in abject poverty.
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There are still hundreds of millions, billions of people living in abject poverty around the world.
Blog text (5) -
The invasion was an abject failure, grossly embarrassing the young president of the United States.
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One result was the abject failure of the DHS and FEMA to handle the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Academic text (2006) -
Many live in abject poverty, struggling to meet their basic needs.
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As a child, I grew up in abject poverty and often faced humiliation.
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Joboy strives to escape from abject poverty to provide a better life for his children.
Synonyms
24
7.2
Very bad or morally wrong so people strongly dislike it
Antonyms
How Bad
Surface Forms
Etymology
Abject comes from the Latin parts ab- ('away') and jacere ('to throw'), so it originally meant 'thrown away'. That's why abject poverty describes a state so low and bad it feels like being thrown away.