{"id":146,"date":"2014-05-15T08:03:03","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T08:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=146"},"modified":"2014-05-15T08:03:03","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T08:03:03","slug":"abject","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/abject\/","title":{"rendered":"Abject"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Abject (adjective)<\/h3>\n<p>Abject means \u2018hopeless\u2019, \u2018defeated\u2019 or \u2018extremely sad and servile\u2019<\/p>\n<p>An abject person is a defeated person who has lost all hopes. An example is a slave.<\/p>\n<p>The word <strong>abject<\/strong> is commonly used with the noun<strong> poverty.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The term <strong>abject poverty<\/strong> is used to refer to desperate poverty that leaves people utterly hopeless.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Abject<\/strong> can also mean \u2018contemptible\u2019 or \u2018despicable\u2019. An <strong>abject coward<\/strong> is one who deserves to be despised.<\/p>\n<h3>Related words<\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Abjectly (adverb), abjectness (noun)<\/p>\n<h3>Synonyms<\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Servile, slavish, base, mean, miserable, debasing<\/p>\n<h3>Antonyms<\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Exalted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abject (adjective) Abject means \u2018hopeless\u2019, \u2018defeated\u2019 or \u2018extremely sad and servile\u2019 An abject person is a defeated person who has lost all hopes. An example is a slave. The word abject is commonly used&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary","tag-abject"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions\/147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}