Menial Definition

mēnē-əl, mēnyəl
adjective
Of or relating to work or a job regarded as servile.
American Heritage
Of or fit for servants.
Webster's New World

Servile; low; mean.

His sister was a menial girl, but he sought to help her develop a mind of her own.
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noun
A domestic servant.
Webster's New World
A servile, low person.
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Other Word Forms of Menial

Noun

Singular:
menial
Plural:
menials

Origin of Menial

  • Middle English meinial belonging to a household from Anglo-Norman meignial from meignee household from Vulgar Latin mānsiōnāta from Latin mānsiō mānsiōn- house mansion

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle English meinial, from Anglo-Norman meignial, from meignee (“household"), from Vulgar Latin mansionata, from Latin mānsiō, mānsiōn (“house").

    From Wiktionary

Menial Sentence Examples

  • Why did men always give women the menial chores?

  • He sought the most menial offices, and did penance for his sins by the severest austerities.

  • Be prepared to do anything, however menial, and stick at it.

  • The definitive peace of Paris was signed on the 10th of February 1763, and a wholesale proscription of the Whigs was begun, the most insignificant adherents of the fallen party, including widows, menial servants and schoolboys, incurring the minister's mean vengeance.

  • The finest parts of the epic are those in which Gudrun, a prisoner in the Norman castle, refuses to become the wife of her captor, and is condemned to do the most menial work of the household.

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Words Starting With

MMEMEN

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LALIAL

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Words Starting With M and Ending With L

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6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With M6 Letter Words Ending With L