menial

menial
adj
1. attendant, attending, serving, servi-tial; helping, waiting, ministering.
2. servile, slavish, subservient; fawning, obsequious, flattering, sycophantic, parasitical, Sl. bootlicking; groveling, truckling, cringing, sniveling, crouching, crawling; prostrate, timeserving, obeisant; degrading, abject, lowly, beggarly, humble, low; ignominious, base, mean, vile, ignoble.
n
3. servant, hireling, domestic, orderly, peon, creature, hand; attendant, underling, helper, subordinate, assistant, understrapper, subaltern; lackey, flunky, fag, Sl. e:k, toiler, moiler; valet, footman, gentleman, gentleman's gentleman, manservant, factotum; butler, steward, majordomo, buttons, houseman, cupbearer; yeoman, retainer, squire, chamberlain; jockey, groom, equerry, stableman, hostler; page, boy, boots, kitchen boy, turnspit; maid, maid-of-all-work, handmaiden, maidservant, abigail, stewardess, Fr. bonne; cook, scullion, Brit. slavey, Brit. skivvy, Brit. tweeny, Brit. betweenmaid; governess, babysitter, tutor, nurse, wetnurse, nanny, (in India) amah, (in India) ayah; laundress, housekeeper, cleaning woman, washer woman, chambermaid, charwoman.
4. toady, yes man, Sl. bootlicker, lickspittle, follower, timeserver; sycophant, flatterer, fawner, parasite, leech, hanger-on, minion; stooge, henchman, tool, puppet, pawn.

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  • menial — me‧ni‧al [ˈmiːniəl] adjective menial work needs little skill and is badly paid: • He worked his way through college by taking menial jobs in the vacation. * * * menial UK US /ˈmiːniəl/ adjective ► used to describe work that does not need any… …   Financial and business terms

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  • menial — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ (of work) requiring little skill and lacking prestige. ► NOUN ▪ a person with a menial job. ORIGIN Old French, from mesnee household …   English terms dictionary

  • 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] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • menial — index base (inferior), ignoble, inferior (lower in position), servile, subservient Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • menial — servile, slavish, *subservient, obsequious Analogous words: abject, *mean, sordid, ignoble: *base, low, vile: groveling, wallowing (see WALLOW) …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • menial — [adj] lowly, low status abject, base, baseborn, boring, common, degrading, demeaning, dull, fawning, grovelling, humble, humdrum, ignoble, ignominious, low, mean, obeisant, obsequious, routine, servile, slavish, sorry, subservient, sycophantic,… …   New thesaurus

  • menial — [mē′nē əl, mēn′yəl] adj. [ME meynal < Anglo Fr meignal < meiniee, a family retainer, servant < OFr meisniee, household < L mansio: see MANSION] 1. of or fit for servants 2. servile; low; mean n. 1. a domestic servant 2. a servile, low …   English World dictionary

  • menial — me|ni|al1 [ˈmi:niəl] adj [Date: 1300 1400; : Anglo French; Origin: meiniee household , from Latin mansio; MANSION] menial work is boring, needs no skill, and is not important ▪ a menial job ▪ She did menial tasks about the house. menial 2 menial2 …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • menial — me|ni|al1 [ miniəl ] adjective menial work is boring or dirty and is considered to be of low status: a menial job in the kitchens menial me|ni|al 2 [ miniəl ] noun count someone who does menial work …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • menial — {{11}}menial (adj.) 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 (Cf. mansion)). Sense of lowly, humble, suited to a… …   Etymology dictionary

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