abjectness
81paltriness — n 1. pettiness, triviality, trivialism, Brit. pottiness, inconsiderableness, unappreciableness, inconsequentiality, insignificance, unimportance, irrelevance, irrelevancy, nonessentiality; littleness, smallness, minuteness, slightness,… …
82prostration — n 1. obeisance, kowtow, salaam; crouch, stoop, bow, genuflection; reverence, groveling, crawling, sniveling. 2. lowness, supineness, resupineness, proneness; recumbency, accumbency, decumbence; fall, downfall, collapse; overthrow, upset,… …
83servility — n 1. slavishness, servileness, obsequiousness, obsequence, subservience, Obs. vernility; submis siveness, docility, unassertiveness, compliance, acquiescence, deference, obeisance, abjection, abjectness, self abasement; groveling, crawling,… …
84squalor — n misery, miserableness, poverty, wretchedness, squalidness, squalidity; sordidness, abjectness, abjection, slumminess, starkness; filth, dirt, foulness, vileness, fulsomeness, feculence, scumminess, muckiness, sliminess, smuttiness, grunginess,… …
85sycophancy — n 1. flattery, fawning, truckling, wheedling, toadeating, toadyism, tufthunting, sycophantism, lip homage, mouth honor, unc tuousness, Inf. soft soap, Sl. bootlicking, Sl. footlick ing, kowtow, Sl. apple polishing, Sl. brown nosing, Rare.… …
86toadyism — n 1. sycophancy, sycophantism, flattery, fawning, truckling, wheedling, toadeating, tuft hunting, lip homage, mouth honor, unctuousness, Inf. soft soap, Inf. bootlicking, Inf. apple polishing, Sl. brown nosing, Rare. blandiloquence, Obs., Rare.… …
87vileness — n 1. baseness, meanness, viciousness, lowness, badness; sordidness, ignobility, foulness, sinisterness, darkness, black heartedness; balefulness, dread fulness, direness, direfulness, grimness; wickedness, iniquity, nefariousness, flagitiousness …
88abject — /ˈæbdʒɛkt / (say abjekt) adjective 1. utterly hopeless and distressing: abject poverty. 2. contemptible; despicable: an abject liar. 3. humble; servile: an abject apology. 4. Obsolete cast aside. {Middle English, from Latin abjectus, past… …
89depression — [n1] low spirits; despair abasement, abjection, abjectness, blahs*, bleakness, blue funk*, bummer, cheerlessness, dejection, desolation, desperation, despondency, disconsolation, discouragement, dispiritedness, distress, dole, dolefulness, dolor …
90abject — ► ADJECTIVE 1) extremely unpleasant and degrading: abject poverty. 2) completely without pride or dignity: an abject apology. DERIVATIVES abjection noun abjectly adverb abjectness noun. ORIGIN Latin abjectus rejected , from jacere to throw …
