2021-04-02 ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด – A – abject
2021-04-02
ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด – A – abject
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Dictionary.com
ออกเสียง abject = ‘AB-jekt’ or ‘ab-JEKT’
Abused, Confused, & Misused Words by Mary Embree
Abject = debasing, degrading, contemptible; = despicable
an abject liar;
= miserable; wretched:
abject poverty
Not to be confused with:
object = a thing or person to which an action is directed:
an object of affection;
= target; destination;
= intention; motive
Common Errors In English Usage Dictionary
“Abject” is always negative.
You can’t experience “abject joy”
unless you’re being deliberately paradoxical.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
History and Etymologyfor abject
Middle English, "outcast, rejected, lowly,"
borrowed from Latin abjectus "downcast, humble, sordid,"
from past participle of abicere
"to throw away, throw down, overcome, abandon,"
from ab- AB- + -icere, reduced form of jacere "to throw"
— more at JET entry 3
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Choose the Right Synonym for abject
mean being below the normal standards
of human decency and dignity.
MEAN suggests small-mindedness, ill temper, or cupidity.
mean and petty satire
IGNOBLE suggests a loss or lack of some essential high quality of mind
or spirit.
an ignoble scramble after material possessions
ABJECT may imply degradation, debasement, or servility.
abject poverty
SORDID is stronger than all of these in stressing physical or spiritual degradation and abjectness.
a sordid story of murder and revenge
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Did You Know?
Abject comes from "abjectus,"
the past participle of the Latin verb abicere, meaning "to cast off."
Its original meaningin English was "cast off" or "rejected,"
but it is now used to refer more broadly to
things in a low stateor condition.
"Abject" shares with "mean," "ignoble," and "sordid"
the sense of being below the normal standards of human decency
and dignity.
"Abject"may imply degradation, debasement, or servility
("abject poverty").
"Mean"suggests having such repellent characteristics
as small-mindedness, ill temper, or cupidity ("mean and petty satire").
"Ignoble"suggests a loss or lack of
some essential high quality of mindor spirit
("an ignoble scramble after material possessions").
"Sordid"is stronger than all of these
in stressing physical or spiritual degradation and lowness
("a sordid story of murder and revenge").
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Trending: ‘abject’
Lookups spiked 800% on February 5, 2019
Why are people looking up abject?
Abject cast offits normally low status
in lookups during the State of the Union address,
and for a time was among our most searched-for words,
after President Trump used it
in makingthe claim that
the policies of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro
were bringing his citizens into “abject poverty.”
What does abject mean?
Abject may be defined as
“sunk to or existing in a low stateor condition,”
“cast down in spirit,” or
“expressing or offered in a humble and often ingratiating spirit”
(as in abject flattery).
Citations
Thou neither gauest me too much riches,
nor too abject poverty,
lest I shold either waxe proud,
or grow more contemptible:
but thou gavest me understanding
and wil, whereby I should know and loue thee.
— A Paradise of Prayers, 1614
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