1. [adj]  showing humiliation or submissiveness; "an abject apology"
2. [adj]  of the most contemptible kind; "abject cowardice"; "a low stunt to pull"; "a low-down sneak"; "his miserable treatment of his family"; "You miserable skunk!"; "a scummy rabble"; "a scurvy trick"
3. [adj]  most unfortunate or miserable; "the most abject slaves joined in the revolt"; "abject poverty"
4. [adj]  showing utter resignation or hopelessness; "abject surrender"

ABJECT is a 6 letter word that starts with A.

1. \Ab"ject\, a. [L. abjectus, p. p. of abjicere to throw
   away; ab + jacere to throw. See {Jet} a shooting forth.]
   1. Cast down; low-lying. [Obs.]
            From the safe shore their floating carcasses And
            broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown Abject and
            lost lay these, covering the flood.   --Milton.
   2. Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded;
      servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture,
      fortune, thoughts. ``Base and abject flatterers.''
      --Addison. ``An abject liar.'' --Macaulay.
            And banish hence these abject, lowly dreams. --Shak.
   Syn: Mean; groveling; cringing; mean-spirited; slavish;
        ignoble; worthless; vile; beggarly; contemptible;
        degraded.
   

2. \Ab*ject"\, v. t. [From {Abject}, a.]
   To cast off or down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower;
   to debase. [Obs.] --Donne.
   

3. \Ab"ject\, n.
   A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; a
   castaway. [Obs.]
         Shall these abjects, these victims, these outcasts,
         know any thing of pleasure?              --I. Taylor.