Abject

1. n. A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; a castaway.
2. a. Cast down; low-lying.
3. a. Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts.
4. a. To cast off or down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower; to debase.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.