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abject

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of abject

showing, expressing, or offered in a spirit of humility or unseemly submissiveness
  • demanded nothing less than an abject apology from them
Synonyms of abject

base, humble, menial, servile, slavish
Words Related to abject

hangdog, lamblike, sheepish

demure, lowly, meek, modest, retiring, unassuming, unpretentious

fawning, sycophant, sycophantic, toadyish
Near Antonyms of abject

arrogant, haughty, high-handed, imperious, lordly, supercilious, superior, uppity

Synonym Discussion of abject

mean, ignoble, abject, sordid mean being below the normal standards of human decency and dignity. mean suggests small-mindedness, ill temper, or cupidity.
    • mean and petty satire
ignoble suggests a loss or lack of some essential high quality of mind or spirit.
    • an ignoble scramble after material possessions
abject may imply degradation, debasement, or servility.
    • abject poverty
sordid is stronger than all of these in stressing physical or spiritual degradation and abjectness.
    • a sordid story of murder and revenge

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