Usually means: Utterly hopeless, miserable, or humiliating.
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  1. abject: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. abject: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. abject: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. abject: Collins English Dictionary
  5. abject: Vocabulary.com
  6. Abject, abject: Wordnik
  7. abject: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. abject: Wiktionary
  9. abject: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. abject: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. abject: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Abject, abject: Dictionary.com
  13. abject: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. abject: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Abject: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Abject: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. abject: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. abject: Rhymezone
  19. abject, abject(e): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. abject: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. abject: Free Dictionary
  22. abject: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. abject: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. abject: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. abject: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. abject: Legal dictionary

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  1. abject: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. abject: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See abjecting as well.)

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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Existing in or sunk to a low condition, position, or state; contemptible, despicable, miserable.
adjective:  (by extension)
adjective:  (chiefly with a negative connotation) Complete; downright; utter.
adjective:  (rare) Lower than nearby areas; low-lying.
adjective:  Of a person: cast down in hope or spirit; showing utter helplessness, hopelessness, or resignation; also, grovelling; ingratiating; servile.
adjective:  (sociology, usually nominalized) Marginalized as deviant.
noun:  A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; an oppressed person; an outcast; also, such people as a class.
verb:  To cast off or out (someone or something); to reject, especially as contemptible or inferior.
verb:  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.
verb:  (mycology) Of a fungus: to (forcibly) give off (spores or sporidia).

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