- Attentive to obligation
- Compliant, obedient
- Devoted
- Obedient
- Respectful
- 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.
- Controlled by, proceeding from, a sense of duty;
respectful; deferential; as, dutiful affection.