menial
lowly and sometimes degrading: menial work.
servile; submissive: menial attitudes.
pertaining to or suitable for domestic servants; humble: menial furnishings.
a domestic servant.
a servile person.
Origin of menial
1synonym study For menial
Other words for menial
Opposites for menial
Other words from menial
- me·ni·al·ly, adverb
- non·me·ni·al, adjective
- non·me·ni·al·ly, adverb
- un·me·ni·al, adjective
- un·me·ni·al·ly, adverb
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How to use menial in a sentence
She went home despising in her heart both lords and menials, and dreaming, with new aspirations, of her Roman republic.
Madame Roland, Makers of History | John S. C. AbbottBut no one came save menials, out of whose sight the poor bruised mother would fain have kept herself.
The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant | Alexander Johnstone WilsonObsequious menials might even set the dogs at him, or trump up a charge against him and put him in jail.
The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant | Alexander Johnstone WilsonSeveral of her menials simultaneously appeared out of invisibility, and one of them hurried obsequiously towards him.
The Regent | E. Arnold BennettHe waved his arm, and the menials shrank back at his tread, stalked across the inhospitable hall, and vanished.
Night and Morning, Complete | Edward Bulwer-Lytton
British Dictionary definitions for menial
/ (ˈmiːnɪəl) /
consisting of or occupied with work requiring little skill, esp domestic duties such as cleaning
of, involving, or befitting servants
servile
a domestic servant
a servile person
Origin of menial
1Derived forms of menial
- menially, adverb
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