dutiful
English
adj
Definitions
- Accepting of one's legal or moral obligations and willing to do them well, and without complaint.
- Pertaining to one's duty; demonstrative of one's sense of duty.
Etymology
Suffix from English duty.
Origin
English
duty
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- duteous English
- dutiable English
- dutied English
- dutifuller English
- dutifully English
- dutifulness English
- dutiless English
- duty English
- duty-free English
- dutybound English
- dutyless English
- dutyman English
- nonduty English
- undutiful English
- undutifully English
- undutifulness English
- duete Middle English
- duti Tok Pisin