dutiful, duteous
(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”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
dutiful (comparative more dutiful, superlative most dutiful)
Accepting of one's legal or moral obligations and willing to do them well, and without complaint.
Pertaining to one's duty; demonstrative of one's sense of duty.
Source: Wiktionary
Du"ti*ful, a.
1. 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. Controlled by, proceeding from, a sense of duty; respectful; deferential; as, dutiful affection.
Syn.
– Duteous; obedient; reverent; reverential; submissive; docile; respectful; compliant.
– Du"ti*ful*ly, adv.
– Du"ti*ful*ness, n.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
11 June 2025
(adjective) having relatively few calories; “diet cola”; “light (or lite) beer”; “lite (or light) mayonnaise”; “a low-cal diet”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
