Abject vs Spiritless - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) Rejected; cast aside.
Sunk to or existing in a low condition, state, or position.
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Cast down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; grovelling; despicable; lacking courage; offered in a humble and often ingratiating spirit.
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Showing utter hopelessness; helplessness; showing resignation; wretched.
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(obsolete) To cast off or out; to reject.
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(obsolete) To cast down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower; to debase.
Lacking energy, drive, motivation or emotion. Enervated.
:The team played a spiritless first half, just going through the motions. But the realization they were playing for their sick friend energized them for the second half.
As adjectives the difference between abject and spiritless
is that abject is (obsolete) rejected; cast aside while spiritless is lacking energy, drive, motivation or emotion enervated.As a noun abject
is a person in the lowest and most despicable condition; a castaway; outcast .As a verb abject
is (obsolete) to cast off or out; to reject .abject
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Etymology 1
* From (etyl) .Adjective
(en-adj)Usage notes
* Nouns to which "abject" is often applied: poverty, fear, terror, submission, misery, failure, state, condition, apology, humility, servitude, manner, coward.Synonyms
* beggarly, contemptible, cringing, degraded, groveling, ignoble, mean, mean-spirited, slavish, vile, worthlessVerb
(en verb)- (John Donne)