menial Definition

menial
adj

1. Said of work: unskilled, uninteresting and of low status.
2. Relating, belonging or suited to a servant.

Thesaurus: servile, abject, base, ignoble, ignominious, low, mean, slavish, subservient, demeaning, degrading.

noun

1. derog
A domestic servant.
Thesaurus: servant, domestic, maid, attendant, lackey, underling, peon, serf, flunky.

Etymology: 15c in sense 2; 14c in obsolete adjectival sense ‘domestic': French, from French meinie household.