Fastidious vs Menial - What's the difference?
fastidious | menial |
Excessively particular, demanding, or fussy about details, especially about tidiness and cleanliness.
* 2008 , Robert Fisher, Memory Road , [http://books.google.com/books?id=TGyAvuZt5VoC&pg=PA37&dq=his+fastidious+nature+clean&hl=en&sa=X&ei=4WCLUNmDLbPF0AGpmoDgDQ&ved=0CEsQ6AEwBQ]:
* 2004 , Maria Osborne Perr, Ravished Wings , [http://books.google.com/books?id=GEno70HQAQgC&pg=PA153&dq=his+fastidious+nature+clean&hl=en&sa=X&ei=4WCLUNmDLbPF0AGpmoDgDQ&ved=0CD8Q6AEwAw]:
* 2003 , Lynsay Sands, Single White Vampire :
* He had at first tried to clean up as they ate, his fastidious nature kicking in, but Chris had told him to just stop, he was blocking the TV.
Difficult to please; quick to find fault.
* 1897 , ,
* 1881 , ,
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.
As adjectives the difference between fastidious and menial
is that fastidious is excessively particular, demanding, or fussy about details, especially about tidiness and cleanliness while menial is of or relating to work normally performed by a servant.As a noun menial is
a servant, especially a domestic servant.fastidious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- His fastidious nature had been evident in his careful snipping of a customer's hair and now he guided his pencil with the same adroitness.
- As she cleaned the room daily, she knew it was against his fastidious nature to bring or have food in his room.
- "It's burn[t], M'sieur," said Marie Louise, politely, but decidedly, to the utter confusion of Mr. Billy, who was as mortified as could be at the failure of his dinner to please his fastidious little visitor.
- You're too fastidious, and too indolent, and too rich.
Synonyms
* (excessively particular) exacting, fussy, meticulous * See alsoSee also
* finickyExternal links
* * *menial
English
(wikipedia menial)Adjective
(en adjective)- His sister was a menial girl, but he sought to help her develop a mind of her own.
Noun
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