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Menial

Menial Meaning & Definition
Menial Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Menial?

[n] a domestic servant
[adj] used of unskilled work (especially domestic work)

Synonyms | Synonyms for Menial: dogsbody | humble | lowly | unskilled

Related Terms | Find terms related to Menial: attendant | attending | base | blue-collar worker | bootlicker | breadwinner | brown-nosing | casual | casual laborer | common laborer | cringing | day laborer | degrading | demeaning | domestic | domestic servant | drudge | employee | factory worker | fag | fawning | flattering | flunky | free lance | free-lancer | full-time worker | gofer | hand | help | helping | humble | ignoble | industrial worker | jobber | jobholder | laborer | laboring man | lackey | leech | lickspittle | low | lowly | mean | migrant | minion | ministering | moiler | navvy | obeisant | obsequious | office temporary | parasite | proletarian | roustabout | routine | salaried worker | scullion | self-employed person | serf | servant | servile | serving | servitor | servitorial | slave | slavey | slavish | stiff | submissive | subservient | sycophant | sycophantic | temporary | toady | toadying | toiler | turnspit | underling | unskilled | wage earner | wage slave | wageworker | waiting | worker | workgirl | workhand | working girl | workingman | workingwoman | workman | yes-man

See Also | retainer | servant

Menial In Webster's Dictionary

\Men"ial\, a. [OE. meneal, fr. meine, maine, household, OF. maisni['e]e, maisnie, LL. mansionaticum. See {Mansion}, and cf. {Meine}, n., {Meiny}.] 1. Belonging to a retinue or train of servants; performing servile office; serving. Two menial dogs before their master pressed. --Dryden. 2. Pertaining to servants, esp. domestic servants; servile; low; mean. `` Menial offices.'' --Swift.
\Men"ial\, n. 1. A domestic servant or retainer, esp. one of humble rank; one employed in low or servile offices. 2. A person of a servile character or disposition.

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