Menial
21menial — [ˈmiːniəl] adj menial work does not need much skill …
22menial — me•ni•al [[t]ˈmi ni əl, ˈmin yəl[/t]] adj. 1) servile; degrading: menial work[/ex] 2) of or suitable for servants; humble 3) a domestic servant • Etymology: 1350–1400; ME meynyal < AF me(i) nial me′ni•al•ly, adv …
23menial — Low; servile. A menial servant …
24menial — adj. & n. adj. 1 (esp. of unskilled domestic work) degrading, servile. 2 usu. derog. (of a servant) domestic. n. 1 a menial servant. 2 a servile person. Derivatives: menially adv. Etymology: ME f. OF meinee household …
25menial servant — A servant whose duties involve the most simple of domestic tasks, requiring little, if any, exercise of discretion, and often consisting in tasks of a degrading nature. Menials or menial servants were originally so called because they were… …
26Menial — Someone within a lord s meinie, i.e. a man who performed household duties for his lord. These men were soldiers or officials. The tasks they performed would not have been degrading. The current sense is a dilution of the original meaning, applied …
27menial — Synonyms and related words: 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,… …
28menial — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. servant, slave, flunky. adj. humble, servile; degrading, mean. See servility. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. common, servile, abject; see humble 1 , 2 . n. Syn. domestic, maid, lackey; see servant . III… …
29menial — me·ni·al || miËnɪəl n. servile person; domestic servant adj. pertaining to or appropriate for domestic servants; servile, subservient; abasing, demeaning …
30menial — I. a. Servile, low, mean, base. II. n. Servant, domestic, waiter, attendant, lackey, underling, flunky, understrapper, valet, footman, slave, serf, bondsman …
