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Definition: Dutiful |
DutifulAdjective1. 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 "dutiful" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Synonym: DutifulSynonym: duteous (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: Dutiful |
| English words defined with "dutiful": duteous, dutifully ♦ obedience, obeisance. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "dutiful": Bees ♦ Knitting ♦ Son. (references) |
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Lyrics | They land at six o'clock and there we are, the dutiful (LAWYERS IN LOVE; performing artist: Jackson Browne) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Dutiful But Dumb (1941) The Dutiful Dub (1919) | |
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| "Dutiful" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.13% of the time. "Dutiful" is used about 107 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 98.13% | 105 | 31,781 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.87% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 107 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "dutiful"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | منبعث من التحسس بالواجب, مطيع (compliant, conformable, manageable, obedient, submissive), قام بواجبه. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 尽职 (Dutifully). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | svìdomitý (conscientious, religious, scrupulous, thorough), spolehlivý (authoritative, dependable, foolproof, good, reliable, reputable, safe, solid, sound, staunch, steady, sure, trustworthy, unfailing), poslušný (biddable, docile, obedient, submissive), oddaný (affectionate, attached, devoted, great, intent, obedient, pious, stalwart). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | گماشت شناس , وظیفه شناس (Conscientious, Loyal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | velvollisuudentuntoinen (conscientious, faithful), tottelevainen (obedient), kuuliainen (obedient). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | dévoué, respectueux. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | pflichtgemäß (as in duty bound, obligatorily, obligingly), pflichtbewusst (conscientious, duteous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | υπάκουοσ (biddable, docile, obedient). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ממלא חובתו, ציתן (docile, obedient, tame). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kötelességtudó (assiduous, to be unfailing in one's duty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | patuh (disciplinable, obedient, obey). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | deferente (deferent, deferential, submissive), ubbidiente (obedient), rispettoso (deferential, observant, respectful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 松柏 (evergreen, pine and cypress). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しょうはく (evergreen, pine and cypress). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | currymagh (attentive, considerate, incumbent, painstaker, responsible), biallagh (docile, obedient person, subject, submissive), bial (submit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | pliktoppfyllende, lydig. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | utifulday respeitador (worshipful), obediente (conformable, duteous, governable, obedient, obsequious, observant, submissive, yielding), atencioso (attentive, considerate, courteous, deferent, deferential, gallant, gracious, kind, neighborly, neighbourly, obliging, regardful, respectful). (various references) supus (acquiescent, compliant, duteous, dutifully, humble, meek, meekly, obedient, obediential, passive, subject, submissive, submissively, supple, tame, yielding), respectuos (deferent, deferential, dutifully, observant, respectful, respectfully, reverent), cuminte (clever, foreseeing, good, level, quiet, quietly, reasonable, sapient, sensible, serious, unassuming, well advised, wise, wisely), conştiincios (careful, conscientious, conscientiously, duteous, scrupulous, scrupulously, thorough), ascultãtor (amenable, auditor, docile, duteous, hearer, listener, manageable, obedient, obediential, obediently, supple, tractable, yielding). (various references) savestan (conscientious). (various references) obediente (compliant, duteous, obedient). (various references) plikttrogen (duteous, loyal). (various references) รับผิ"ชอบต่อหน้าที่. (various references) saygılı (considerate, courteous, deferent, deferential, fearful, obeisant, pious, regardful, respectful, reverent, reverential), işine saygılı, hürmetkâr (deferent, deferential, respectful, reverent). (various references) слухняний (amenable, biddable, conformable, docile, governable, kind, mild, obedient, obediential, obeisant, obsequious, passive, toward, tractable), ретельний (affectionate, assiduous, careful, diligent, elaborate, meticulous, narrow, nice, observant, prompt, rigorous, severe, thorough), шанобливий (assentaneous, awesome, complacent, deferent, deferential, honorific, obeisant, respectful, reverent, reverential). (various references) sẵn s ng l m bổn phận, biết vâng lời (obedient), biết nghe lời biết tôn kính. (various references) ufuddgar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | appiae, appii, officiosus, pia pium, pie, pios, pius. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "dutiful": dutifully, dutifulness, dutifulnesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "dutiful": undutiful. (additional references) | |
Words containing "dutiful": undutifully, undutifulness, undutifulnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Dutiful" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: duitiful, duriful, Dutfield, dutifal. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "dutiful" (pronounced duw"tēful) |
| 3 | -f u l | apocryphal, artful, awful, baffle, baleful, bashful, beautiful, blissful, boastful, bountiful, careful, cheerful, colorful, deceitful, delightful, disdainful, disgraceful, disrespectful, distasteful, distrustful, doleful, doubtful, dreadful, duffel, eventful, faithful, falafel, fanciful, fateful, fearful, fistful, fitful, flavorful, forceful, forgetful, fretful, frightful, fruitful, gainful, gleeful, graceful, grateful, harmful, hateful, healthful, helpful, hopeful, houseful, hurtful, insightful, joyful, kerfuffle, lawful, lustful, masterful, meaningful, merciful, mindful, mistrustful, mournful, muffle, needful, neglectful, painful, panful, peaceful, pitiful, playful, plentiful, powerful, prayerful, purposeful, raffle, regretful, remorseful, resentful, reshuffle, resourceful, respectful, restful, riffle, rifle, rightful, rueful, ruffle, scornful, scuffle, shameful, shuffle, sinful, skillful, sorrowful, soulful, spiteful, stifle, stressful, successful, suspenseful, tactful, tasteful, tearful, thankful, thoughtful, trifle, triumphal, truffle, truthful, tuneful, uneventful, unfaithful, ungrateful, unhealthful, unhelpful, unlawful, unsuccessful, untruthful, useful, vengeful, waffle, wasteful, watchful, willful, wishful, wistful, woeful, wonderful, worshipful, wrongful, youthful, zestful. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-f-i-l-t-u-u" | |
-2 letters: fluid. | |
-3 letters: duit, flit, lift, litu. | |
-4 letters: dit, dui, fid, fil, fit, flu, fud, lid, lit, til, tui, ulu. | |
-5 letters: id, if, it, li, ti, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-f-i-l-t-u-u" | |
+2 letters: dutifully, undutiful. | |
+3 letters: disgustful. | |
+4 letters: distrustful, dutifulness, latifundium, undutifully. | |
+5 letters: disgustfully. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Usage Frequency 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Translations: Ancient 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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