dutiful

English

Alternative forms

• dutifull (archaic)

Etymology

From duty +‎ -ful.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

dutiful (comparative more dutiful, superlative most dutiful)

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.

   • 1996, Paul Heaton, Dave Rotheray, “Rotterdam (or Anywhere)”, in Blue Is the Colour, performed by The Beautiful South:

     And when blondes and beautiful are multiple / They become so dull and dutiful

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

Derived terms

• dutifully
• dutifulness
• undutiful

Translations

accepting of one's obligations

• Danish: pligttro, pligtopfyldende
• Dutch: plichtsgetrouwe (nl)
• French: dévoué (fr)
• German: pflichtbewusst (de), pflichtgetreu
• Hebrew: הַצַּיְתָנִית (hatsaytanít)
• Hungarian: kötelességtudó (hu)
• Latin: pius (la)
• Polish: odpowiedzialny (pl)
• Portuguese: obediente (pt), submisso (pt)
• Romanian: îndatoritoare
• Russian: послу́шный (ru) (poslúšnyj)
• Spanish: obediente (es)
• Swedish: plikttrogen (sv), pliktmedveten (sv)
• Turkish: ödevcil (tr), vazifeşinas (tr)