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abject

adjective

1 many such families are living in abject poverty:

wretched, miserable, hopeless, pathetic, pitiful, pitiable, piteous, stark, sorry, forlorn, woeful, lamentable, degrading, appalling, atrocious, awful.

2 an abject sinner:

contemptible, base, low, vile, worthless, debased, degraded, despicable, ignominious, mean, unworthy, sordid, ignoble, shabby.

▷antonyms proud, respected.

3 an abject apology:

obsequious, grovelling, crawling, creeping, fawning, toadyish, servile, cringing, snivelling, ingratiating, toadying, sycophantic, submissive, craven, humiliating.

▷antonyms proud.

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