Abjectadjective
(obsolete) Rejected; cast aside.
Servileadjective
of or pertaining to a slave.
Abjectadjective
Sunk to or existing in a low condition, state, or position.
Servileadjective
submissive or slavish.
‘servile flattery; servile obedience’;
Abjectadjective
Cast down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; grovelling; despicable; lacking courage; offered in a humble and often ingratiating spirit.
Servileadjective
(grammar) Not belonging to the original root.
‘a servile letter’;
Abjectadjective
Showing utter hopelessness, helplessness; showing resignation; wretched.
Servileadjective
(grammar) Not sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceding vowel, like the e in tune.
Abjectnoun
A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; a castaway; outcast.
Servilenoun
(grammar) An element which forms no part of the original root.
Abjectverb
To cast off or out; to reject.
Servilenoun
A slave; a menial.
Abjectverb
To cast down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower; to debase.
Servileadjective
Of or pertaining to a servant or slave; befitting a servant or a slave; proceeding from dependence; hence, meanly submissive; slavish; mean; cringing; fawning; as, servile flattery; servile fear; servile obedience.
‘She must bend the servile knee.’; ‘Fearing dying pays death servile breath.’;
Abjectadjective
Cast down; low-lying.
‘From the safe shore their floating carcassesAnd broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrownAbject and lost lay these, covering the flood.’;
Servileadjective
Held in subjection; dependent; enslaved.
‘Even fortune rules no more, O servile land!’;
Abjectadjective
Degraded; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts.
‘And banish hence these abject, lowly dreams.’;
Servileadjective
Not belonging to the original root; as, a servile letter.
Abjectadjective
Sunk to a low condition; down in spirit or hope; miserable; - of persons.
Servilenoun
An element which forms no part of the original root; - opposed to radical.
Abjectadjective
Humiliating; degrading; wretched; - of situations; as, abject poverty.
Servileadjective
pertaining to or involving slaves;
‘the servile wars of Sicily’;
Abjectverb
To cast off or down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower; to debase.
Servileadjective
submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior;
‘spoke in a servile tone’; ‘the incurably servile housekeeper’; ‘servile tasks such as floor scrubbing and barn work’;
Abjectnoun
A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; a castaway.
‘Shall these abjects, these victims, these outcasts, know any thing of pleasure?’;
Servileadjective
involving slaves;
‘Brown's attempt at servile insurrection’;
Abjectadjective
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’;
Abjectadjective
most unfortunate or miserable;
‘the most abject slaves joined in the revolt’; ‘abject poverty’;
Abjectadjective
showing utter resignation or hopelessness;
‘abject surrender’;
Abjectadjective
showing humiliation or submissiveness;
‘an abject apology’;
Abjectadjective
(of something bad) experienced or present to the maximum degree
‘his letter plunged her into abject misery’; ‘abject poverty’;
Abjectadjective
(of a situation or condition) extremely unpleasant and degrading
‘the abject condition of the peasants’;
Abjectadjective
(of a person or their behaviour) completely without pride or dignity; self-abasing
‘an abject apology’;
