8 October 2014

abject

[ab-jekt, ab-jekt]

adjective

1. utterly hopeless, miserable, humiliating, or wretched:
abject poverty.
2. contemptible; despicable; base-spirited:
an abject coward.
3. shamelessly servile; slavish.
4. Obsolete. cast aside.

Origin
late Middle English Latin
1400-1450; late Middle English < Latin abjectus thrown down (past participle of abicere, abjicere), equivalent to ab- ab + -jec- throw + -tus past participle suffix

Related forms
abjectly, adverb
abjectness, abjectedness, noun
unabject, adjective
unabjectly, adverb
unabjectness, noun

Can be confused
abject, object.

Synonyms
1. debasing, degrading; miserable. 2. base, mean, low, vile.

Antonyms
exalted.

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Anagram

cab jet

Today’s aphorism

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

– Bob Marley

On this day

8 October 1769 – Captain James Cook lands at Poverty Bay, New Zealand.

8 October 1939 – birth of Paul Hogan, Australian actor.

8 October 1970 – Soviet dissident author, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wins Nobel Price for Literature. Author of ‘The Gulag Archipelago‘.

8 October 1971 – John Lennon releases the iconic song, ‘Imagine’.

8 October 1980 – Bob Marley collapses on stage in New York. The following day he collapses while jogging in Central Park. He is diagnosed with a brain tumour, which developed from a melanoma that had spread from his toe. He died on 11 May 1981.