What is the difference between desperately and abjectly?
desperately | abjectly |
With great shame, desperately; in an abject fashion.
* 1851 , , Moby-Dick
As adverbs the difference between desperately and abjectly
is that desperately is in a desperate manner; without regard to danger or safety; recklessly while abjectly is with great shame, desperately; in an abject fashion {{defdate|first attested around 1350 to 1470}}{{reference-book | last =| first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | editor =brown, lesley | others = | title = the shorter oxford english dictionary | origdate = | origyear = 1933| origmonth = | url = | format = | accessdate = | accessyear = | accessmonth = | edition = 5th | date = | year =2003| month = | publisher =oxford university press | location =oxford, uk | language = | id = | doi = | isbn =978-0-19-860575-7 | lccn = | ol = | pages =5| chapter = | chapterurl = | quote =}}.desperately
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abjectly
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Adverb
(en adverb)- I abjectly apologise for the damage I have done.
- So, deprived of one leg, and the strange ship of course being altogether unsupplied with the kindly invention, Ahab now found himself abjectly reduced to a clumsy landsman again;
