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adjective
- 1. dutiful: archaic "a duteous vassal"
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Duteous means dutiful, obedient, or faithful to duty. Learn the etymology, synonyms, examples, and history of this adjective from the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
Duteous means dutiful or obedient, and is a formal or archaic word. Learn its pronunciation, synonyms, derived forms, word frequency, and word origin from Collins English Dictionary.
Duteous definition: dutiful; obedient.. See examples of DUTEOUS used in a sentence.
To be duteous is to be conscious of your duties and diligent in performing them. A duteous employee gets to work on time, meets every deadline, and never gossips about the boss. A duty is a responsibility or obligation, so to be duteous is to be mindful of one’s duties. A doctor who makes a home visit is duteous.
Duteous means dutiful, obedient, or submissive. Find 103 similar and opposite words for duteous, such as dutiful, amiable, agreeable, and willful, wilful, wayward, rebellious.
Define duteous. duteous synonyms, duteous pronunciation, duteous translation, English dictionary definition of duteous. adj. Obedient or dutiful. du′te·ous·ly adv. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
Duteous means characterized by the performance of duty to a superior, such as dutiful, submissive, obedient, or subservient. See the etymology, pronunciation, and usage of duteous in Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden, and Scott.
