dutiful
adjEtymology From duty + -ful.
1
Accepting of one's legal or moral obligations and willing to do them well, and without complaint.
- Ralph was a dutiful child, and took the trash out without being told.
- And when blondes and beautiful are multiple / They become so dull and dutiful1996, Paul Heaton, Dave Rotheray, “Rotterdam (or Anywhere)”, in Blue Is the Colour, performed by The Beautiful South:
2
Pertaining to one's duty; demonstrative of one's sense of duty.
- Derived terms
- dutifully, dutifulness, undutiful