Advertisement
Advertisement
abjection
noun as in depression
Strong matches
- abasement
- blahs
- bleakness
- bummer
- cheerlessness
- dejection
- desolation
- desperation
- despondency
- discouragement
- dispiritedness
- distress
- dole
- dolefulness
- dolor
- downheartedness
- dreariness
- dullness
- dumps
- ennui
- gloom
- gloominess
- heavyheartedness
- hopelessness
- lowness
- melancholia
- melancholy
- misery
- mortification
- qualm
- sadness
- sorrow
- trouble
- unhappiness
- vapors
- woefulness
- worry
noun as in impecuniosity
Weak matches
- aridity
- bankruptcy
- barrenness
- beggary
- dearth
- debt
- deficiency
- deficit
- depletion
- destitution
- difficulty
- distress
- emptiness
- exiguity
- famine
- hardship
- impecuniousness
- impoverishment
- inadequacy
- indigence
- insolvency
- insufficiency
- lack
- meagerness
- necessitousness
- necessity
- need
- neediness
- pass
- paucity
- pauperism
- pennilessness
- penuriousness
- penury
- pinch
- poorness
- privation
- reduction
- scarcity
- shortage
- starvation
- straits
- underdevelopment
- vacancy
- want
noun as in impecuniousness
Strong matches
- aridity
- bankruptcy
- barrenness
- beggary
- dearth
- debt
- deficiency
- deficit
- depletion
- destitution
- difficulty
- distress
- emptiness
- exiguity
- famine
- hardship
- impoverishment
- inadequacy
- indigence
- insolvency
- insufficiency
- lack
- meagerness
- necessity
- need
- neediness
- pass
- paucity
- pauperism
- pennilessness
- penuriousness
- penury
- pinch
- poorness
- privation
- reduction
- scarcity
- shortage
- starvation
- straits
- underdevelopment
- vacancy
- want
Weak matches
noun as in impoverishment
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in meanness
Strong matches
noun as in neediness
Strong matches
- aridity
- bankruptcy
- barrenness
- beggary
- dearth
- debt
- deficiency
- deficit
- depletion
- destitution
- difficulty
- distress
- emptiness
- exiguity
- famine
- hardship
- impecuniousness
- impoverishment
- inadequacy
- indigence
- insolvency
- insufficiency
- lack
- meagerness
- necessity
- need
- pass
- paucity
- pauperism
- pennilessness
- penuriousness
- penury
- pinch
- poorness
- privation
- reduction
- scarcity
- shortage
- starvation
- straits
- underdevelopment
- vacancy
- want
Weak matches
noun as in pennilessness
Strong matches
- aridity
- bankruptcy
- barrenness
- beggary
- dearth
- debt
- deficiency
- deficit
- depletion
- destitution
- difficulty
- distress
- emptiness
- exiguity
- famine
- hardship
- impecuniousness
- impoverishment
- inadequacy
- indigence
- insolvency
- insufficiency
- lack
- meagerness
- necessity
- need
- neediness
- pass
- paucity
- pauperism
- penuriousness
- penury
- pinch
- poorness
- privation
- reduction
- scarcity
- shortage
- starvation
- straits
- underdevelopment
- vacancy
- want
Weak matches
noun as in penuriousness
Strong matches
- aridity
- bankruptcy
- barrenness
- beggary
- dearth
- debt
- deficiency
- deficit
- depletion
- destitution
- difficulty
- distress
- emptiness
- exiguity
- famine
- hardship
- impecuniousness
- impoverishment
- inadequacy
- indigence
- insolvency
- insufficiency
- lack
- meagerness
- necessity
- need
- neediness
- pass
- paucity
- pauperism
- pennilessness
- penury
- pinch
- poorness
- privation
- reduction
- scarcity
- shortage
- starvation
- straits
- underdevelopment
- vacancy
- want
Weak matches
noun as in poverty
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak match
noun as in wretchedness
Example Sentences
How did it move from abjection’s muse to a luxury commodity so exclusive even those who make it can feel excluded from the venues by which it is distributed or performed live?
Her Roberta is prepared to drown in her own abjection, but Abbott’s Danny keeps throwing himself to her as a lifeline.
With her tragic back story revealed, the bourbon-soaked, switchblade-wielding Siren is essentially a humorless take on Audrey from “Little Shop of Horrors” though, here, you get the sense that, in her stilettoed abjection, she is Someone Who Has Sex, and must therefore become a villain.
And he loathes what he perceives as homosexual abjection.
What mattered more was always the creativity and abjection with which the contestants approached his personal challenge: Prove your loyalty through self-betrayal.
Advertisement
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Browse