Thesaurus / abjection
other words for abjection
MOST RELEVANT
- bankruptcy
- debt
- deficit
- difficulty
- famine
- hardship
- lack
- scarcity
- shortage
- starvation
- underdevelopment
- aridity
- barrenness
- beggary
- dearth
- deficiency
- depletion
- destitution
- distress
- emptiness
- exiguity
- impecuniousness
- impoverishment
- inadequacy
- indigence
- insolvency
- insufficiency
- meagerness
- necessity
- pass
- paucity
- pauperism
- pennilessness
- penury
- pinch
- poorness
- privation
- reduction
- vacancy
- necessitousness
opposites of abjection
MOST RELEVANT
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
There is no more abjection in the colonial status than in any other.
ENGLAND, CANADA AND THE GREAT WARLOUIS-GEORGES DESJARDINS
Abjection is not the result of the faithful discharge of duty, however trying the circumstances may be.
ENGLAND, CANADA AND THE GREAT WARLOUIS-GEORGES DESJARDINS
But even as she measures and exults in the abjection of herself, a voice whispers in her soul that this is not the way.
BROWNING'S HEROINESETHEL COLBURN MAYNE
Why, without her it would fall into a state of indolence and degradation, even of utter abjection.
RAMBLES IN WOMANLANDMAX O'RELL
Here the patience, the beauty, the abjection before the Devilish-Divine; there the defiance, the cult of the proud self.
APPEARANCESGOLDSWORTHY LOWES DICKINSON
For them supreme splendour found its effigy in extreme abjection.
THE GLOW-WORM AND OTHER BEETLESJEAN HENRI FABRE
There is in the young girl all the abjection of the cad and of the school-boy.
BAUDELAIRE: HIS PROSE AND POETRYCHARLES BAUDELAIRE
He wanted in that abjection to triumph over the entire East.
For in my abjection, I own I clutch at straws, miserably anxious for support.
THE GATELESS BARRIERLUCAS MALET
Unless thy law had been my meditation, I had then perhaps perished in my abjection.
THE EXCELLENCE OF THE ROSARYM. J. FRINGS
WORDS RELATED TO ABJECTION
- abasement
- abjection
- abjectness
- blahs
- bleakness
- blue funk
- bummer
- cheerlessness
- dejection
- desolation
- desperation
- despondency
- disconsolation
- discouragement
- dispiritedness
- distress
- dole
- dolefulness
- dolor
- downheartedness
- dreariness
- dullness
- dumps
- ennui
- gloom
- gloominess
- heaviness of heart
- heavyheartedness
- hopelessness
- lowness
- lugubriosity
- melancholia
- melancholy
- misery
- mortification
- qualm
- sadness
- sorrow
- the blues
- trouble
- unhappiness
- woefulness
- worry
- abjection
- aridity
- bankruptcy
- barrenness
- beggary
- dearth
- debt
- deficiency
- deficit
- depletion
- destitution
- difficulty
- distress
- emptiness
- exiguity
- famine
- hardship
- impecuniousness
- impoverishment
- inadequacy
- indigence
- insolvency
- insufficiency
- lack
- meagerness
- necessitousness
- necessity
- need
- neediness
- pass
- paucity
- pauperism
- pennilessness
- penuriousness
- penury
- pinch
- poorness
- privation
- reduction
- scarcity
- shortage
- starvation
- underdevelopment
- vacancy
- want
- abjection
- aridity
- bankruptcy
- barrenness
- beggary
- dearth
- debt
- deficiency
- deficit
- depletion
- destitution
- difficulty
- distress
- emptiness
- exiguity
- famine
- hardship
- impecuniousness
- impoverishment
- inadequacy
- indigence
- insolvency
- insufficiency
- lack
- meagerness
- necessitousness
- necessity
- need
- neediness
- pass
- paucity
- pauperism
- pennilessness
- penuriousness
- penury
- pinch
- poorness
- privation
- reduction
- scarcity
- shortage
- starvation
- underdevelopment
- vacancy
- want
- abjection
- aridity
- bankruptcy
- barrenness
- beggary
- dearth
- debt
- deficiency
- deficit
- depletion
- destitution
- difficulty
- distress
- emptiness
- exiguity
- famine
- hardship
- impecuniosity
- impoverishment
- inadequacy
- indigence
- insolvency
- insufficiency
- lack
- meagerness
- necessitousness
- necessity
- need
- neediness
- pass
- paucity
- pauperism
- pennilessness
- penuriousness
- penury
- pinch
- poorness
- privation
- reduction
- scarcity
- shortage
- starvation
- underdevelopment
- vacancy
- want
- abjection
- aridity
- bankruptcy
- barrenness
- beggary
- dearth
- debt
- deficiency
- deficit
- depletion
- destitution
- difficulty
- distress
- emptiness
- exiguity
- famine
- hardship
- impecuniosity
- impecuniousness
- inadequacy
- indigence
- insolvency
- insufficiency
- lack
- meagerness
- necessitousness
- necessity
- need
- neediness
- pass
- paucity
- pauperism
- pennilessness
- penuriousness
- penury
- pinch
- poorness
- privation
- reduction
- scarcity
- shortage
- starvation
- underdevelopment
- vacancy
- want
- abjection
- avarice
- baseness
- beastliness
- churlishness
- closeness
- contemptibleness
- corruptness
- covetousness
- debasement
- degeneracy
- degradation
- disrepute
- frugality
- greed
- ill-temper
- infamy
- iniquity
- knavishness
- lowness
- malice
- malignity
- miserliness
- parsimony
- pettiness
- rapacity
- shamelessness
- smallmindedness
- sordidness
- stinginess
- unkindness
- unscrupulousness
- unworthiness
- wickedness
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