Abject adj. # Brought low in condition or status. # Being of the most contemptible kind: abject cowardice. # Being of the most miserable kind; wretched: abject poverty. Terrorn. # Intense, overpowering fear. # One that instills intense fear: a rabid dog that became the terror of the neighborhood. # The ability to instill intense fear: the terror of jackboots pounding down the street. # Violence committed or threatened by a group to intimidate or coerce a population, as for military or political purposes. # Informal. An annoying or intolerable pest: that little terror of a child.
The Igbo meaning for the word "Abject" of the African origin is nọ ajọ ọnọ; dara ogbenye.
He is in abject poverty , abject horror
(abject - as in a low or miserable condition, or despicable)The homeless people lived a life of abject poverty.The man's face wore an expression of abject horror.After his girlfriend left him, he was in an abject mood for weeks. (hopeless, despondent)
Four words in Welsh meaning 'terror' are: dychryn (fright/terror) braw (terror/dread/fright) arswyd (dread/terror/horror) ofn (fear/dread)
Wretched, miserable, hopeless, pathetic, pitiful are all synonyms for abject
Perhaps you mean the term 'awe.' This is the English translation from the Hebrew term 'yirah' meaning 'holy fear,' or piety, reverence, awe of God (see Psalm 33:8). Another word in the Hebrew for our 'fear' is 'pachad' meaning abject terror (see Isaiah 2:10). These two should not be confused and the context will let the reader know which one is being referred to in older translations.
One can define the word abject as existing in a low condition or state. To be the most miserable, hopeless and downtrodden. Synonyms for abject include, degraded, outcast, pitiable.
Since the Depression began they had been living in abject poverty and could only afford the necessities to live.
Horrified is a feeling of great terror or shock.
Abiectus.
Lowest;twisted
humiliated