Abject vs Menial - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) Rejected; cast aside.
Sunk to or existing in a low condition, state, or position.
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Cast down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; grovelling; despicable; lacking courage; offered in a humble and often ingratiating spirit.
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Showing utter hopelessness; helplessness; showing resignation; wretched.
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(obsolete) To cast off or out; to reject.
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(obsolete) To cast down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower; to debase.
English heteronyms
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Of or relating to work normally performed by a servant.
Of or relating to unskilled work. (rfex)
servile; low; mean
A servant, especially a domestic servant.
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, passage=The world was awake to the 2nd of May, but Mayfair is not the world, and even the menials of Mayfair lie long abed.}}
A person who has a subservient nature.
Abject is a related term of menial.
As adjectives the difference between abject and menial
is that abject is (obsolete) rejected; cast aside while menial is of or relating to work normally performed by a servant.As nouns the difference between abject and menial
is that abject is a person in the lowest and most despicable condition; a castaway; outcast while menial is a servant, especially a domestic servant.As a verb abject
is (obsolete) to cast off or out; to reject .abject
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Etymology 1
* From (etyl) .Adjective
(en-adj)Usage notes
* Nouns to which "abject" is often applied: poverty, fear, terror, submission, misery, failure, state, condition, apology, humility, servitude, manner, coward.Synonyms
* beggarly, contemptible, cringing, degraded, groveling, ignoble, mean, mean-spirited, slavish, vile, worthlessVerb
(en verb)- (John Donne)
References
menial
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(wikipedia menial)Adjective
(en adjective)- His sister was a menial girl, but he sought to help her develop a mind of her own.
Noun
(en noun)“Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=Ep./4/2
