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[ mee-nee-uhl, meen-yuhl ] / ˈmi ni əl, ˈmin yəl / SEE SYNONYMS FOR menial ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivelowly and sometimes degrading: menial work. servile; submissive: menial attitudes. pertaining to or suitable for domestic servants; humble: menial furnishings. nouna domestic servant. a servile person. Origin of menialFirst recorded in1350–1400; Middle English meynyal, from Anglo-French me(i)nial.See meiny, -al1 SYNONYMS FOR menial2 fawning. 4 attendant, underling, hireling, lackey. SEE SYNONYMS FOR menial ON THESAURUS.COM ANTONYMS FOR menialSEE ANTONYMS FOR menial ON THESAURUS.COM synonym study for menial2. See servile. OTHER WORDS FROM menialme·ni·al·ly, adverbnon·me·ni·al, adjectivenon·me·ni·al·ly, adverbun·me·ni·al, adjective un·me·ni·al·ly, adverb Words nearby menialMenger, Mengistu Haile Mariam, Mengzi, menhaden, menhir, menial, Ménière's disease, Ménière's syndrome, menilite, Meninga, meningeal Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for menialAlthough I hated the menial tasks the job required, it gave me a window into the power of local government. There’s No Better Test for Millennials than the American City|Michael Tubbs|April 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST Or refusing to take on menial work, such as working in a café for example, and instead whining at your parents to pay your rent? Why ‘Girls’ Is Bad for Women|Emma Woolf|March 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST Charles Murray worries that we've made it too easy to be a menial worker. Social Science Minus the Science|David Frum|February 8, 2012|DAILY BEAST Prosperity created a situation familiar to Americans and Northern Europeans: some jobs became too menial for Russians. Murder in Moscow|Scott Horton|December 29, 2008|DAILY BEAST
People get tired of applying for menial jobs and the changes. Why Are More Boomers Killing Themselves?|Lizzie Stark|October 22, 2008|DAILY BEAST Daisy Griggs told me this morning that Mignon said she wouldnt be seen associating with a menial like that Browning girl. Marjorie Dean High School Senior|Pauline Lester He lay there five days, during which we performed every friendly and even every menial office. The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. II: Acadia, 1612-1614|Various They could toil unceasingly, bend their backs to the most menial labor, so long as they toiled upon their own freehold. Nobody's Child|Elizabeth Dejeans "That would make out a good deal more of the menial in the world than is commonly supposed," laughed Hesper. Mary Marston|George MacDonald Of course not, my dear Miss Dalton; but shall I commit the precious charge to a menial's hand? The Daltons, Volume I (of II)|Charles James Lever
British Dictionary definitions for menial
adjectiveconsisting of or occupied with work requiring little skill, esp domestic duties such as cleaning of, involving, or befitting servants servile nouna domestic servant a servile person Derived forms of menialmenially, adverbWord Origin for menialC14: from Anglo-Norman meignial, from Old French meinie household. See meiny Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to menialhumdrum, boring, base, low, routine, mean, common, abject, degrading, dull, fawning, humble, ignoble, ignominious, obeisant, obsequious, servile, slavish, sorry, subservient |