mindmap root((低劣)) mean suggests having repellent characteristics such as small-mindedness, ill temper, or cupidity, or it may stress inferiority and suggest poverty or penury: a ~, rundown neighborhood. ignoble suggests a loss or lack of some essential high quality of mind or spirit: ~ collectors who view artworks merely as investments. abject may imply degradation, debasement, or servility: the ~ poverty of her youth. sordid is stronger than all of these in stressing dirtiness and physical or spiritual degradation or abjectness: a ~ story of murder and revenge.