Word Meanings - DRUDGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To perform menial work; to labor in mean or unpleasant offices with toil and fatigue. He gradually rose in the estimation of the booksellers for whom he drudged. Macaulay.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DRUDGE)

• Fag
• Work
• toil
• slave
• drudge
• Menial
• Domestic
• attendant
• dependent
• servile

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DRUDGE)

• Bask
• luxuriate
• hit off
• play
• dally

Related words: (words related to DRUDGE)

• SERVILELY
  In a servile manner; slavishly.
• SERVILENESS
  Quality of being servile; servility.
• DALLY
  trifle, talk nonsense, OSw. tule a droll or funny man; or AS. dol 1. To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle. We have trifled too long already;
• DOMESTICATE
  1. To make domestic; to habituate to home life; as, to domesticate one's self. 2. To cause to be, as it were, of one's family or country; as, to domesticate a foreign custom or word. 3. To tame or reclaim from a wild state; as, to domesticate wild
• DRUDGER
  1. One who drudges; a drudge. 2. A dredging box.
• DEPENDENT
  1. Hanging down; as, a dependent bough or leaf. 2. Relying on, or subject to, something else for support; not able to exist, or sustain itself, or to perform anything, without the will, power, or aid of something else; not self-sustaining;
• SLAVEOCRACY
  See SLAVOCRACY
• SLAVEHOLDING
  Holding persons in slavery.
• MENIAL
  maisniée, maisnie, LL. mansionaticum. See Mansion, and cf. Meine, n., 1. Belonging to a retinue or train of servants; performing servile office; serving. Two menial dogs before their master pressed. Dryden. 2. Pertaining to servants, esp. domestic
• LUXURIATE
  1. To grow exuberantly; to grow to superfluous abundance. " Corn luxuriates in a better mold." Burton. 2. To feed or live luxuriously; as, the herds luxuriate in the pastures. 3. To indulge with unrestrained delight and freedom; as, to luxuriate
• DOMESTICATION
  The act of domesticating, or accustoming to home; the action of taming wild animals.
• DOMESTICANT
  Forming part of the same family. Sir E. Dering.
• ATTENDANT
  Depending on, or owing duty or service to; as, the widow attendant to the heir. Cowell. Attendant keys , the keys or scales most nearly related to, or having most in common with, the principal key; those, namely, of its fifth above, or dominant,
• SLAVERY
  1. The condition of a slave; the state of entire subjection of one person to the will of another. Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, slavery, said I, still thou art a bitter draught! Sterne. I wish, from my soul, that the legislature of this
• DRUDGE
  To perform menial work; to labor in mean or unpleasant offices with toil and fatigue. He gradually rose in the estimation of the booksellers for whom he drudged. Macaulay.
• DOMESTICALLY
  In a domestic manner; privately; with reference to domestic affairs.
• SERVILE
  1. Of or pertaining to a servant or slave; befitting a servant or a slave; proceeding from dependence; hence, meanly submissive; slavish; mean; cringing; fawning; as, servile flattery; servile fear; servile obedience. She must bend the servile
• SLAVEBORN
  Born in slavery.
• SLAVE
  See SLAV
• DRUDGERY
  The act of drudging; disagreeable and wearisome labor; ignoble or slavish toil. The drudgery of penning definitions. Macaulay. Paradise was a place of bliss . . . without drudgery and with out sorrow. Locke. Syn. -- See Toll.
• CATAMENIAL
  Pertaining to the catamenia, or menstrual discharges.
• ENSLAVEMENT
  The act of reducing to slavery; state of being enslaved; bondage; servitude. A fresh enslavement to their enemies. South.
• INTERDEPENDENT
  Mutually dependent.
• ENSLAVEDNESS
  State of being enslaved.
• REENSLAVE
  To enslave again.
• ENDRUDGE
  To make a drudge or slave of. Bp. Hall.
• HEBDOMADALLY
  In periods of seven days; weekly. Lowell.
• DILLY-DALLY
  To loiter or trifle; to waste time.
• WHITE SLAVE
  A woman held in involuntary confinement for purposes of prostitution; loosely, any woman forced into unwilling prostitution.