Meaning

2 senses
  1. Accepting of one's legal or moral obligations and willing to do them well, and without complaint.

    Ralph was a dutiful child, and took the trash out without being told.

    pflichtbewusst, pflichtgetreu

    послу́шныйposlúšnyj

  2. Pertaining to one's duty; demonstrative of one's sense of duty.

    willingly obedient out of a sense of duty and respect

Examples

8 sentences
  1. Robert looked like a dutiful student.

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  2. This girl was always good and dutiful.

    ruЭта девочка была всегда хорошая и исполнительная.

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  3. The altar boy dutifully followed the priest.

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  4. Layla was a dutiful caretaker.

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  5. He was dutiful.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
accepting of one's obligations:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
accepting of one's obligations:

Origin

From duty + -ful.

From duty + -ful.

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Forms

more dutiful, most dutiful
Comparativemore dutiful Lesson
Superlativemost dutiful Lesson

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • willingly obedient out of a sense of duty and respect:duteous

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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