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adjective
1.
lowly and sometimes degrading: menial work.
2.
servile; submissive: menial attitudes.
3.
pertaining to or suitable for domestic servants; humble: menial furnishings.
noun
4.
a domestic servant.
5.
a servile person.
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Menial
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Related forms
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
Antonyms
1. dignified. 2. proud.
1. dignified. 2. proud.
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Example Sentences
- So he worked at menial jobs, wrote in his free time and sent out as many as 40 stories at once.
- As she would not marry him, he put her to all sorts of menial work, such as washing the dirty linen.
- Hire an undergrad on an hourly basis to help with the menial tasks.
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Word Origin & History
menial
late 14c., "pertaining to a household," from Anglo-Fr. meignial, from O.Fr. mesnie "household," earlier mesnede, from V.L. *mansionata, from L. mansionem "dwelling" (see mansion). Sense of "lowly, humble, suited to a servant" is first recorded 1670s. Noun meaning "domestic
EXPANDservant" is late 14c., meynyal.
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