| 单词 | dutiful |
| 释义 | dutiful (once / 1253 pages) adj Are you a dutiful person? If you are, then you do as you're told, out of a feeling of duty and obligation. Dutiful children know this means cleaning one's room, taking out the trash, and not talking back! The adjective dutiful is often used to describe obedient children, servants, and soldiers, as well as anyone else who willingly obeys orders. Not surprisingly, dutiful can also have a somewhat negative meaning. For example, if your graduation speaker gives a painfully boring address, you may respond with "dutiful applause" when it's over. That means you are clapping out of a sense of duty and respect, not because you thought the speech was any good. WORD FAMILYdutiful: dutifully, dutifulness, undutiful+/duteous: duteously/duty: duteous, dutiable, duties, dutiful/undutiful: undutifully, undutifulness USAGE EXAMPLESGarfield’s dutiful, contemplative Rodrigues faces the most grueling trial of all. Time(Dec 22, 2016) Artificial general intelligence will not involve dutiful adherence to explicit instructions, but instead will demonstrate a facility with the implicit, the interpretive. New York Times(Dec 14, 2016) Bennetts is unflinching and fair, but in the book’s latter half, the sheer volume of dutiful reporting starts to drag down the pace. Washington Post(Dec 02, 2016) adj willingly obedient out of a sense of duty and respect a dutiful child a dutiful citizen Syn duteous obedient dutifully complying with the commands or instructions of those in authority |
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