<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>utterly hopeless, miserable, humiliating, or wretched: abject poverty.</li><li>Synonyms: miserable, degrading, contemptible, despicable, base-spirited: an abject coward.</li><li>Synonyms: vile, low, mean, base.</li><li>shamelessly servile; slavish.</li><li>Obsolete: cast aside.</li></ul>