dutiful

3 definitions found

dutiful - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Dutiful \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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     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.
          [1913 Webster]

dutiful - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  dutiful
      adj 1: willingly obedient out of a sense of duty and respect; "a
             dutiful child"; "a dutiful citizen"; "Patient Griselda
             was a chaste and duteous wife"; [syn: dutiful,
             duteous]

dutiful - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  65 Moby Thesaurus words for "dutiful":
     Christian, Christianlike, Christianly, accommodating, acquiescent,
     active, adoring, attentive, believing, cap in hand, ceremonious,
     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