Cast down; low-lying.

Degraded; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts.

Sunk to a low condition; down in spirit or hope; miserable; -- of persons.

Humiliating; degrading; wretched; -- of situations; as, abject poverty.

To cast off or down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower; to debase.

A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; a castaway.

of the most contemptible kind; "abject cowardice"; "a low stunt to pull"; "a low-down sneak"; "his miserable treatment of his family"; "You miserable skunk!"; "a scummy rabble"; "a scurvy trick"

most unfortunate or miserable; "the most abject slaves joined in the revolt"; "abject poverty"

showing humiliation or submissiveness; "an abject apology"

adj. Sunk to a low condition.