Sekirov Dictionary

menial

/ˈmiːni.əl/

adjective 3
noun 2
forms 3

adjective3

•
Of or relating to work normally performed by a servant.
- She was not proposing to go out again, so he got her slippers and took off her boots. It delighted him to perform menial offices. — 1915
•
Of or relating to unskilled work.
- Father Brown took the paper without a word, and obediently went to look for the coat; it was not the first menial work he had done in his life. — 1910
Servile; low; mean.

noun2

•
A servant, especially a domestic servant.
- But the young man was conscious, at the same moment, that it had ceased to be a matter of serious regret to him that the little American flirt should be “talked about” by low-minded menials. — 1879
A person who has a subservient nature.

forms

menials · more menial · most menial

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