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Menial vs Despicable - What's the difference?

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Menial is a related term of despicable.


As adjectives the difference between menial and despicable

is that menial is of or relating to work normally performed by a servant while despicable is fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean; vile; worthless.

As a noun menial

is a servant, especially a domestic servant.

menial

English

(wikipedia menial)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or relating to work normally performed by a servant.
  • Of or relating to unskilled work. (rfex)
  • servile; low; mean
  • His sister was a menial girl, but he sought to help her develop a mind of her own.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A servant, especially a domestic servant.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), title= “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=Ep./4/2
  • , 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.
  • despicable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean; vile; worthless
  • Synonyms

    * (l) * mean * vile

    Antonyms

    * honorable