Meaning of DUTIFUL
| Pronunciation: | | 'dootiful
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| | Definition: | | [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"; |
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| | Synonyms: | | duteous, obedient |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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