'Menial' definitions:
Definition of 'menial'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Menial'
From: GCIDE
- Menial \Men"ial\, a. [OE. meneal, fr. meine, maine, household, OF. maisni['e]e, maisnie, LL. mansionaticum. See Mansion, and cf. Meine, n., Meiny.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Belonging to a retinue or train of servants; performing servile office; serving. [1913 Webster]
- Two menial dogs before their master pressed. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Pertaining to servants, esp. domestic servants; servile; low; mean; as, menial tasks. " Menial offices." --Swift. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Menial'
From: GCIDE
- Menial \Men"ial\, n.
- 1. A domestic servant or retainer, esp. one of humble rank; one employed in low or servile offices. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A person of a servile character or disposition. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'menial'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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