abject

Từ điển American Heritage Dictionary 4th

ab·ject (ăbʹjĕkt', ăb-jĕktʹ)adj.
1. Brought low in condition or status. See Synonyms at mean².
2. Being of the most contemptible kind:
abject cowardice.
3. Being of the most miserable kind; wretched:
abject poverty. [Middle English, outcast, from Latin abiectus, past participle of abicere, to cast away : ab-, from; see ab-¹ + iacere, to throw; See yē- in Indo-European Roots.] abʹject'ly adv.ab·jectʹness or ab·jecʹtion n.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  unhopeful, low, low-down, miserable, scummy, scurvy