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dutiful

/doo-tuh-fuhl, dyoo-/US // ˈdu tə fəl, ˈdyu- //UK // (ˈdjuːtɪfʊl) //

尽职尽责,尽责,尽责的,尽职

Related Words

conscientious自觉,兢兢业业,自觉的,认真的binding结合,结合的,有约束力的,结合性compliant顺从,顺从的,符合要求的,符合要求deferential恭敬,恭敬的,恭敬不如从命,尊敬的devoted忠诚的,忠心耿耿的,忠心耿耿,忠心的docile温顺的,驯服的,驯服,驯顺的faithful忠实的,忠诚的,忠实,忠诚obligatory强制性的,强制性,强制,强制的punctilious彬彬有礼,彬彬有礼的,拘谨,拘谨的人regardful关注,注意,顾虑重重,注意力respectful恭敬的,尊重的,肃然起敬,恭敬submissive顺从的人,顺民,顺从者,顺从duteous哑巴,哑巴的,哑的,哑铃reverential崇敬的,虔诚的,崇敬,恭敬incumbent on执政的是,执政者,执政的,承担的责任

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : performing the duties expected or required of one; characterized by doing one's duty: a dutiful citizen; a dutiful child.
    • : required by duty; proceeding from or expressive of a sense of duty: dutiful attention.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.obedient
Synonyms
conscientious自觉,兢兢业业,自觉的,认真的binding结合,结合的,有约束力的,结合性compliant顺从,顺从的,符合要求的,符合要求deferential恭敬,恭敬的,恭敬不如从命,尊敬的devoted忠诚的,忠心耿耿的,忠心耿耿,忠心的docile温顺的,驯服的,驯服,驯顺的duteous哑巴,哑巴的,哑的,哑铃faithful忠实的,忠诚的,忠实,忠诚incumbent on执政的是,执政者,执政的,承担的责任obligatory强制性的,强制性,强制,强制的punctilious彬彬有礼,彬彬有礼的,拘谨,拘谨的人regardful关注,注意,顾虑重重,注意力respectful恭敬的,尊重的,肃然起敬,恭敬reverential崇敬的,虔诚的,崇敬,恭敬submissive顺从的人,顺民,顺从者,顺从

Examples

  • It is my first memory of my mother, a dutiful military wife of the era, openly staking out a position opposing my father.

  • Toni Collette is Marina, the dutiful, focused captain of a ship headed to Mars.

  • She appeared at his side, impish smile in place, dutiful, fragrantly rather than ferociously sexy, and—frustratingly—an adjunct.

  • A cousin took me to the National Frontier Trail Museum, where I jotted down dutiful notes.

  • Ibrahim made clear to Deputy Dennis Meyer that his daughter was a respectful and dutiful girl of Sudanese extraction.

  • Revered and dutiful, he fought (and was injured) in World War II, and succeeded to the tile in 1953.

  • But this detachment gives the biography a dutiful, going-through-the-motions tone.

  • It is dutiful for some to give themselves to the work of the ministry, and to vow to do its duties; but not dutiful for all.

  • To the greatest extent of the capacities of all, it is dutiful for them to obtain and distribute copies of the blessed word.

  • Was it dutiful for the priests to read it to the people of Israel assembled at their solemn feasts?

  • Was it dutiful to make use of one copy of the law for instructing the people, when only one could be obtained?

  • It is dutiful for all who have the whole word of God, to use every lawful means in their power to make others know it.

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