dueness
尊严
Related Words
Definitions
- 1
- : owed at present; having reached the date for payment: This bill is due.
- : owing or owed, irrespective of whether the time of payment has arrived: This bill is due next month.
- : owing or observed as a moral or natural right.
- : rightful; proper; fitting: due care; in due time.
- : adequate; sufficient: a due margin for delay.
- : under engagement as to time; expected to be ready, be present, or arrive; scheduled: The plane is due at noon.
- 1
- : something that is due, owed, or naturally belongs to someone.
- : Usually dues . a regular fee or charge payable at specific intervals, especially to a group or organization: membership dues.
- 1
- : directly or exactly: a due east course.
- : Obsolete. duly.
Phrases
- due to
- give credit (where it's due)
- give someone his or her due
- give the devil his due
- in due course
- pay one's dues
- with all due respect
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
With all due respect to his athletic skill, Gronkowski is not high on the list of NFL players that elicit carnal thoughts.
I was pregnant, uncomfortably so, for the first time and with twins, due the following March.
But most of this gap, say the researchers who carried out the study, is due to discrimination.
Now it can't open on my phone due to what appears to be software incompatibility.
Whether he gets his full due in popular culture remains to be seen.
Two Battalions racing due North along the coast and foothills with levelled bayonets.
Not only are they required to do things in a proper orderly manner, but people have to treat them with due deference.
He came back in due time, but bringing nothing for me, and I felt that my appeal had been in vain.
Austria's fall was due to the lethargy and hesitation of the courts of Berlin and St. Petersburg.
They shall plan how this may be done with due propriety, and shall advise us of their action.