| Dutiful 1. (a.) Compliant, conscientious; careful to fulfill obligations; as, a dutiful employee; performing, or ready to perform, the duties required by one who has the right to claim submission, obedience, or deference; submissive to natural or legal superiors; obedient, as to parents or superiors; as, a dutiful son or daughter; a dutiful ward or servant; a dutiful subject. 2. (a.) Controlled by, proceeding from, a sense of duty; respectful; deferential; as, dutiful affection. Thesaurus Entries Christian, Christianlike, Christianly, accommodating, acquiescent, active, adoring, attentive, believing, cap in hand, ceremonious, compliant, complying, conforming, conscientious, considerate, constant, courteous, cultish, cultist, cultistic, deferential, devoted, devout, diligent, duteous, ethical, faithful, filial, flexible, honorific, law-abiding, loyal, malleable, meticulous, mindful, moral, obedient, obliging, observant, pietistic, pious, pliant, polite, practicing, prayerful, punctilious, punctual, regardful, reliable, religious, respectful, responsible, reverent, reverential, scrupulous, solemn, submissive, theistic, TRUE, venerational, venerative, willing, worshipful, yielding |