abject🔊

Existing in or sunk to a low condition, position, or state; contemptible, despicable, miserable. +

(by extension, chiefly with a negative connotation) Complete; downright; utter. +

(by extension, rare) Lower than nearby areas; low-lying.

Of a person: cast down in hope or spirit; showing utter helplessness, hopelessness, or resignation; also, grovelling; ingratiating; servile. +

(sociology) Marginalized as deviant.

A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; an oppressed person; an outcast; also, such people as a class. +

To cast off or out (someone or something); to reject, especially as contemptible or inferior.

To cast down (someone or something); to abase; to debase; to degrade; to lower; also, to forcibly impose obedience or servitude upon (someone); to subjugate.

(mycology) Of a fungus: to (forcibly) give off (spores or sporidia).