- utterly hopeless, miserable, humiliating, or wretched: abject poverty.
- contemptible; despicable; base-spirited: an abject coward.
- shamelessly servile; slavish.
- cast aside.
- utterly wretched or hopeless
- miserable; forlorn; dejected
- indicating humiliation; submissive
- contemptible; despicable; servile
