Definitions for menial

menial me·ni·al

Spelling: [mee-nee-uh l, meen-yuh l]
IPA: /ˈmi ni əl, ˈmin yəl/

Menial is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 156 anagrams from letters in menial (aeilmn).

Definitions for menial

noun

  1. a domestic servant.
  2. a servile person.

adjective

  1. lowly and sometimes degrading:
  2. servile; submissive:
  3. pertaining to or suitable for domestic servants; humble:

Origin of menial

1350-1400; Middle English meynyal Anglo-French me(i)nial. See meiny, -al1

Examples for menial

He is going to work, to be a menial, to earn a living by honest means?

Prosperity created a situation familiar to Americans and Northern Europeans: some jobs became too menial for Russians.

They may be had tied in bundles by the employers of menial labor.

People get tired of applying for menial jobs and the changes.

Or refusing to take on menial work, such as working in a café for example, and instead whining at your parents to pay your rent?

Many would scoff, and call it menial Let them, if they will.

Although I hated the menial tasks the job required, it gave me a window into the power of local government.

He was doorkeeper to the household, so he began on the duties of his menial position.

And there were other things, and worse,—menial services of the lowest kind.

Charles Murray worries that we've made it too easy to be a menial worker.

Word Value for menial
Scrable

8

Words with friends

11

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