Even though I put my all into this to begin with it ended up being menial work, so I think it didn't turn out great.
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Menial
//ˈmiːni.əl//
Synonyms for "menial" (99 found)
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Closest matches (20)
Strong matches (30)
Related words (49)
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Translations
61 translations across 19 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- وَضِيع adj (of or relating to unskilled work)
Bulgarian
4 entries- лакейски adj (of or relating to work normally performed by a servant)
- непохватен adj (of or relating to unskilled work)
- слугински adj (of or relating to work normally performed by a servant)
- лакей noun (domestic servant)
Catalan
3 entries- labor adj (of or relating to work normally performed by a servant)
- criat noun (domestic servant)
- minyona noun (domestic servant)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 低微的 adj (of or relating to work normally performed by a servant)
- 卑微的 adj (of or relating to work normally performed by a servant)
Dutch
4 entries- bediende noun (domestic servant)
- dienaar noun (domestic servant)
- dienares noun (domestic servant)
- knecht noun (domestic servant)
Esperanto
1 entries- servemulo noun (subservient person)
Finnish
2 entries- avustava adj (of or relating to work normally performed by a servant)
- yksinkertainen adj (of or relating to unskilled work)
French
3 entries- ancillaire adj (of or relating to work normally performed by a servant)
- subalterne adj (of or relating to unskilled work)
- domestique noun (domestic servant)
Galician
2 entries- labor adj (of or relating to work normally performed by a servant)
- servente noun (domestic servant)
German
4 entries- nieder adj (of or relating to unskilled work)
- niedrig adj (of or relating to unskilled work)
- untergeordnet adj (of or relating to work normally performed by a servant)
- Domestik noun (domestic servant)
Italian
1 entries- servile adj (of or relating to work normally performed by a servant)
Japanese
4 entries- 下賎な adj (of or relating to work normally performed by a servant)
- 単純労働の adj (of or relating to unskilled work)
- 賎しい adj (of or relating to work normally performed by a servant)
- 召し使い noun (domestic servant)
Middle English
1 entries- meyneal noun (domestic servant)
Māori
4 entries- poroteke adj (of or relating to unskilled work)
- porotieke adj (of or relating to unskilled work)
- poroteke noun (subservient person)
- tia noun (subservient person)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- lavstatuspreget adj (of or relating to unskilled work)
- nedrig adj (of or relating to unskilled work)
- ufaglært adj (of or relating to unskilled work)
Russian
2 entries- лакейский adj (of or relating to work normally performed by a servant)
- слуга noun (domestic servant)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- lakajski adj (of or relating to work normally performed by a servant)
- lakejski adj (of or relating to work normally performed by a servant)
- služinski adj (of or relating to work normally performed by a servant)
- sluga noun (domestic servant)
Spanish
4 entries- de baja categoría adj (of or relating to unskilled work)
- de poca importancia adj (of or relating to unskilled work)
- doméstico adj (of or relating to work normally performed by a servant)
- servil adj (of or relating to work normally performed by a servant)
Swedish
4 entries- underlydande adj (of or relating to work normally performed by a servant)
- tjänare noun (domestic servant)
- tjänstefolk noun (domestic servant)
- underlydande noun (domestic servant)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
In 2017, in Jammu, local BJP leaders launched a campaign demanding all Rohingya who live in slums and eke out their living by doing menial jobs be expelled from the city.
Source: tatoeba (10021214)
Tom can only find menial work in this economy.
Source: tatoeba (10054299)
The job was boring and menial.
Source: tatoeba (13246029)
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