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Definition: Duteous |
DuteousAdjective1. Willingly obedient out of a sense of duty and respect; "a dutiful child"; "a dutiful citizen"; "Patient Griselda was a chaste and duteous wife";. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "duteous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Note: Duteous \Du"te*ous\, adjective. [From Duty.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: DuteousSynonym: dutiful (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Virtue | Adjective: virtuous, good; innocent; meritorious, deserving, worthy, desertful, correct; dutiful, duteous; moral; right, righteous, right-minded; well-intentioned, creditable, laudable, commendable, praiseworthy; above all praise, beyond all praise; excellent, admirable; sterling, pure, noble; whole-souled. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Duteous |
| English words defined with "duteous": dutiful. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "duteous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 实 (Faithful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | obéissant. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | pflichtbewusst (conscientious, dutiful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | obbediente (obedient). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uteousday submisso (acquiescent, amenable, biddable, broken, conformable, humble, obedient, submissive, yielding), respeitoso (regardful, respectful, reverent), obediente (conformable, dutiful, governable, obedient, obsequious, observant, submissive, yielding). (various references) supus (acquiescent, compliant, dutiful, dutifully, humble, meek, meekly, obedient, obediential, passive, subject, submissive, submissively, supple, tame, yielding), conştiincios (careful, conscientious, conscientiously, dutiful, scrupulous, scrupulously, thorough), ascultãtor (amenable, auditor, docile, dutiful, hearer, listener, manageable, obedient, obediential, obediently, supple, tractable, yielding). (various references) послушный (amenable, biddable, docile, gentle, governable, manageable, obedient, sequacious, tractable, wieldly). (various references) obediente (compliant, dutiful, obedient). (various references) plikttrogen (dutiful, loyal), lydig (biddable, docile, dutiful, good, obedient). (various references) старанний (affectionate, assiduous, careful, diligent, operose, painstaking, particular, scholarly, searching, sedulous, studious, willing), покірний (acquiesced, acquiescent, benign, lamblike, meek, obedient, obediential, obeisant, prideless, resigned, submissive, tame). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Duteous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Doutoum, dutious. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "duteous" (pronounced 'Du"te*ous'): Abdominous, Abiogenous, Ablatitious, Abnormous, Absentaneous, Absonous, Abstemious, Abstentious, Abstractitious, Acanthaceous, Acanthocarpous, Acanthocephalous, Acanthophorous, Acanthopodious, Acanthopterous, Acanthopterygious, Acarpellous, Acarpous, Acclivitous, Acclivous, Acephalous, Acetabuliferous, Acetarious, Acetous, Achilous, Achlamydeous, Acholous, Achromatous, Achroous, Achylous, Achymous, Acidiferous, Acidulous, Acinaceous, Acotyledonous, Acrimonious, Acrocarpous, Acrogenous, Acronyctous, Acrosporous, Acrotomous, Actinophorous, Aculeous, Acuminous, Addititious, Adelphous, Adenophorous, Adenophyllous, Adenous, Adiaphorous. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-o-s-t-u-u" | |
-1 letter: ousted, toused. | |
-2 letters: doest, dotes, douse, duets, outed, touse. | |
-3 letters: does, dose, dost, dote, dots, dues, duet, duos, dust, odes, ouds, oust, outs, stud, sued, suet, teds, tods, toed, toes, udos, used. | |
-4 letters: doe, dos, dot, due, duo, eds, ode, ods, oes, ose, oud, out, set, sod, sot, sou, sue, ted, tod, toe, udo. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-o-s-t-u-u" | |
+1 letter: outduels. | |
+2 letters: dentulous, outcursed, outguides, outpushed, outrushed, outsulked. | |
+3 letters: adulterous, consuetude, edentulous, outblushed, outguessed, outhustled, outmuscled, outshouted, outstudied, outstudies, outstunted, stupendous, surmounted, thunderous, unsoundest. | |
+4 letters: adventurous, consuetudes, countersued, outproduces, outrebounds, sleuthhound, undercounts, unsupported. | |
+5 letters: adulterously, discourteous, doubtfulness, hebetudinous, sleuthhounds, studiousness, stupendously, superconduct, thunderously, unaccustomed, unobstructed, unquestioned. | |
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