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adjective
- 1. dutiful: archaic "a duteous vassal"
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: dutiful, obedient. Examples of duteous in a Sentence. Recent Examples on the Web The administrator in him favors the long view; the duteous building of a team over the course of years. John Altavilla, courant.com, 12 May 2017.
noun. Word origin. [ 1585–95; duty + -ous] This word is first recorded in the period 1585–95. Other words that entered English at around the same time include: competence, corridor, develop, filament, sine -ous is a suffix forming adjectives that have the general sense “possessing, full of” a given quality ( covetous; glorious; nervous ...
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.
Synonyms for DUTEOUS: dutiful, amiable, agreeable, obedient, acquiescent, obliging, docile, submissive; Antonyms of DUTEOUS: willful, wilful, wayward, rebellious, defiant, contumacious, contrary, unruly.
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.
Characterized by the performance of duty to a superior; dutiful, submissive, obedient, subservient. (Of persons and their actions, etc.) 1594. And yet the dutious vassall scarce is gone. W. Shakespeare, Lucrece sig. K1 v. 1597. I intreate true peace of you, Which I will purchase with my dutious seruice. W. Shakespeare, Richard III ii. i. 64. 1608.
