abject

1. (by extension)Examples: "abject failure   abject nonsense   abject terror"; "Lord Howard of Escrick accused [John] Ayloffe of proposing to assassinate the Duke of York; but Lord Howard was an abject liar; and this story was not part of his original confession, but was added afterwards by way of supplement, and therefore deserves no credit whatever."; "I flung myself before him on my knees, and with floods of tears besought him to release me from this engagement, assuring him that my cowardice was abject, and that in every point of intellect and character I was his hopeless and derisible inferior."Synonyms: out-and-out, unmitigated, abject, absolute, arrant, categoric, categorical, completebroadly

2. (by extension)Examples: "The Roots of this Plant [healing wolfsbane (Aconitum anthora)] increaſe abundantly, ſoon overrunning a large Piece of Ground, therefore ſhould be confin'd in ſome abject Part of the Garden, or planted under Trees, it being very hardy, and growing in almoſt every Soil or Situation."broadlyrare

3. (sociology, usually nominalized) Marginalized as deviant.Examples: "The abject can easily be grafted onto the immigrant body, which is often conceived as something to be excluded in order to preserve a coherent yet racist national imaginary."; "The disclosure of tolerance's hidden phobic lining fits in well with queer theory's embrace of the abject."noun-from-verbusually