dutiful

dutiful
    adj 1: willingly obedient out of a sense of duty and respect; "a
           dutiful child"; "a dutiful citizen"; "Patient Griselda
           was a chaste and duteous wife"; [syn: {dutiful},
           {duteous}]
    

Dutiful \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.
      [1913 Webster]

   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.
        [1913 Webster]
    

65 Moby Thesaurus words for "dutiful":
      Christian, Christianlike, Christianly, accommodating, acquiescent,
      active, adoring, attentive, believing, cap in hand, ceremonious,
      compliant, complying, conforming, conscientious, considerate,
      constant, courteous, cultish, cultist, cultistic, deferential,
      devoted, devout, diligent, duteous, ethical, faithful, filial,
      flexible, honorific, law-abiding, loyal, malleable, meticulous,
      mindful, moral, obedient, obliging, observant, pietistic, pious,
      pliant, polite, practicing, prayerful, punctilious, punctual,
      regardful, reliable, religious, respectful, responsible, reverent,
      reverential, scrupulous, solemn, submissive, theistic, true,
      venerational, venerative, willing, worshipful, yielding