Associations to the word «Dutiful»

Wiktionary

DUTIFUL, adjective. Accepting of one's legal or moral obligations and willing to do them well, and without complaint.
DUTIFUL, adjective. Pertaining to one's duty; demonstrative of one's sense of duty.

Dictionary definition

DUTIFUL, adjective. Willingly obedient out of a sense of duty and respect; "a dutiful child"; "a dutiful citizen"; "Patient Griselda was a chaste and duteous wife";.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne