Word Meanings - DUTIFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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
Additional info about word: DUTIFUL
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.
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- RIGHT-RUNNING
Straight; direct. - NATURALIST
1. One versed in natural science; a student of natural history, esp. of the natural history of animals. 2. One who holds or maintains the doctrine of naturalism in religion. H. Bushnell. - NATURAL STEEL
Steel made by the direct refining of cast iron in a finery, or, as wootz, by a direct process from the ore. - OBEDIENCE
1. The act of obeying, or the state of being obedient; compliance with that which is required by authority; subjection to rightful restraint or control. Government must compel the obedience of individuals. Ames. 2. Words or actions denoting - RIGHTEOUSNESS
The state of being right with God; justification; the work of Christ, which is the ground justification. There are two kinds of Christian righteousness: the one without us, which we have by imputation; the other in us, which consisteth of faith, - LEGALITY
1. The state or quality of being letter of the law. - RIGHT
1. In a right manner. 2. In a right or straight line; directly; hence; straightway; immediately; next; as, he stood right before me; it went right to the mark; he came right out; he followed right after the guide. Unto Dian's temple goeth - DAUGHTERLY
Becoming a daughter; filial. Sir Thomas liked her natural and dear daughterly affection towards him. Cavendish. - RIGHT-ANGLED
Containing a right angle or right angles; as, a right-angled triangle. - NATURAL
Belonging to, to be taken in, or referred to, some system, in which the base is 1; -- said or certain functions or numbers; as, natural numbers, those commencing at 1; natural sines, cosines, etc., those taken in arcs whose radii are 1. (more info) - RIGHTEOUS
Doing, or according with, that which is right; yielding to all their due; just; equitable; especially, free from wrong, guilt, or sin; holy; as, a righteous man or act; a righteous retribution. Fearless in his righteous cause. Milton. - READY-MADE
Made already, or beforehand, in anticipation of need; not made to order; as, ready-made clothing; ready-made jokes. - RIGHTEN
To do justice to. Relieve the opressed. Isa. i. 17. - LEGALIZE
To interpret or apply in a legal spirit. (more info) 1. To make legal. - REQUIRER
One who requires. - RIGHT-LINED
Formed by right lines; rectilineal; as, a right-lined angle. - PERFORMANCE
The act of performing; the carrying into execution or action; execution; achievement; accomplishment; representation by action; as, the performance of an undertaking of a duty. Promises are not binding where the performance is impossible. Paley. - RIGHT-MINDED
Having a right or honest mind. -- Right"-mind`ed*ness, n. - RIGHT-HANDED
Having the whorls rising from left to right; dextral; -- said of spiral shells. See Illust. of Scalaria. Right-handed screw, a screw, the threads of which, like those of a common wood screw, wind spirally in such a direction that screw advances - CLAIMABLE
Capable of being claimed. - SUPERNATURALNESS
The quality or state of being supernatural. - BRIGHT
See I - RECLAIMABLE
That may be reclaimed. - PRETERNATURALITY
Preternaturalness. Dr. John Smith. - CARTWRIGHT
An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker. - RECLAIMER
One who reclaims. - ACCLAIM
1. To applaud. "A glad acclaiming train." Thomson. 2. To declare by acclamations. While the shouting crowd Acclaims thee king of traitors. Smollett. 3. To shout; as, to acclaim my joy. - SPRIGHTLY
Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance. "Sprightly wit and love inspires." Dryden. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green. Pope. - FRIGHTFUL
1. Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne. 2. Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance. Syn. - SHRIGHT
imp. & p. p. of Shriek. She cried alway and shright. Chaucer. - OVERREADY
Too ready. -- O"ver*read"*i*ly, adv. -- O"ver*read"i*ness, n. - INOBEDIENCE
Disobedience. Wyclif. Chaucer. - UPRIGHTNESS
the quality or state of being upright. - OVERRIGHTEOUS
Excessively righteous; -- usually implying hypocrisy.