Abject and Mean

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Abject adjective - Showing, expressing, or offered in a spirit of humility or unseemly submissiveness.

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Mean is a synonym for abject in property topic. In some cases you can use "Mean" instead an adjective "Abject", when it comes to topics like common, cringing, worthless, servile.

Nearby Words: abjection, abjectly

Mean adjective - Being about midway between extremes of amount or size.

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Abject is a synonym for mean in common topic. You can use "Abject" instead an adjective "Mean", if it concerns topics such as cringing, worthless, dishonourable.

Nearby Words: means, meaning, meanness, meant, meanly

Some speculate that this stems from his boyhood spent in abject poverty in Kowloon, and/or the fact that just because he's good at making people laugh doesn't mean he likes doing it.

Source: Creator / Stephen Chow

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