About The Word Dutiful
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Dutiful
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What's The Definition Of Dutiful?
[adj] willingly obedient out of a sense of duty and respect; "a dutiful child"; "a dutiful citizen"; "Patient Griselda was a chaste and duteous wife";
Synonyms | Synonyms for Dutiful: duteous | obedient Related Terms | Find terms related to Dutiful: accommodating | acquiescent | active | adoring | attentive | believing | cap in hand | ceremonious | Christian | Christianlike | Christianly | compliant | complying | conforming | conscientious | considerate | constant | courteous | cultish | cultist | cultistic | deferential | devoted | devout | diligent | duteous | ethical | faithful | filial | flexible | honorific | law-abiding | loyal | malleable | meticulous | mindful | moral | obedient | obliging | observant | pietistic | pious | pliant | polite | practicing | prayerful | punctilious | punctual | regardful | reliable | religious | respectful | responsible | reverent | reverential | scrupulous | solemn | submissive | theistic | true | venerational | venerative | willing | worshipful | yielding See Also | Dutiful In Webster's Dictionary \Du"ti*ful\, a.
1. Performing, or ready to perform, the duties required by
one who has the right to claim submission, obedience, or
deference; submissive to natural or legal superiors;
obedient, as to parents or superiors; as, a dutiful son or
daughter; a dutiful ward or servant; a dutiful subject.
2. Controlled by, proceeding from, a sense of duty;
respectful; deferential; as, dutiful affection.
Syn: Duteous; obedient; reverent; reverential; submissive;
docile; respectful; compliant. -- {Du"ti*ful*ly}, adv.
-- {Du"ti*ful*ness}, n.
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