menial
n. C1 Advanced US //ˈminiəɫ// UK //mˈiːnɪəl// me·nial
n. a job that is very boring, hard, or low in status. You use this to describe work that feels like a chore rather than a meaningful task.
n. a task or job that is considered low-status, tedious, or unskilled. Often used to describe work that is perceived as a burden or a lack of personal value.
The office work felt like a menial task to him.
After years of working a menial job, she decided to go back to school to learn a new trade.
The protagonist's journey from a life of menial labor to one of intellectual pursuit serves as a central theme of the novel, highlighting the social mobility of the era.
From Middle English meyneal, from Anglo-Norman mesnal, from maisnee (“household”), from Vulgar Latin *mānsiōnāta, from Latin mānsiō (“house”).