dutiful
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3.9
- adjective
- /ˈdjuːtɪfəl/
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cumplidor
- The dutiful son visited his elderly parents every weekend to ensure they were well-cared for.
- a dutiful daughter
- a dutiful child
- a dutiful role
He identified himself as that, as a dutiful son and brother.
- He identified himself as that, as a dutiful son and brother.
- They've weaponized the press corps into dutiful people.
- And that's reminding women all around the world what a true dutiful and, and classy lady looks like.
- But so far she has been nothing but like dutiful daughter girl getting married away to big scary man.
Examples
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As a dutiful employee, she always meets her deadlines and helps her coworkers.
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So Ingrid, being the dutiful daughter, went off to learn the secrets of the culinary arts.
Fiction book (2001) -
I want you to be a dutiful wife!
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Have we not all been dutiful?
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Are you a dutiful wife, Ellen?
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Of course, as a dutiful wife, she must follow wherever her husband's career took them.
Fiction book (1992) -
A responsible board is capable and dutiful in carrying out its responsibilities.
Academic text (2006) -
He identified himself as that, as a dutiful son and brother.
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In the two years since my mother's death, I have been a dutiful, if somewhat distant daughter.
Fiction book (2002) -
Yet nowhere is it written that having a religious identity and being a dutiful citizen are mutually exclusive.
Academic text (2018)
Synonyms
49
5.9
Careful and serious about doing work the right way
45
1.0
Willing to do what someone in charge tells you
1
9.9
Ready to obey and show respect because they feel they should
Willing to follow orders or requests
Antonyms
How Dutiful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word dutiful comes from duty + the ending -ful. Duty originally meant something you 'owe' (the same idea as the words due and debt), so a dutiful person is 'full of duty' and does what they owe or are expected to do.