Synonyms of duteous

duteous

adjective

as in dutiful

Synonyms & Similar Words

• dutiful
• amiable
• agreeable
• obedient
• acquiescent
• obliging
• docile
• submissive
• placable
• tractable
• conformable
• compliant
• biddable
• obsequious
• servile
• amenable
• subordinate
• slavish
• fawning
• subservient
• yielding
• surrendering
• decorous
• orderly
• law-abiding
• obeisant
• restrained
• mannerly
• disciplined
• soft
• constrained
• repressed
• meek
• gentle
• inhibited
• mild
• tame
• manageable
• teachable
• controllable
• kowtowing
• trainable
• governable
• curbed
• disciplinable
• handleable

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• willful
• wilful
• wayward
• rebellious
• defiant
• contumacious
• contrary
• unruly
• disobedient
• recalcitrant
• obstreperous
• refractory
• restive
• intractable
• ungovernable
• mutinous
• obstinate
• stubborn
• noncompliant
• rebel
• untoward
• insubordinate
• peevish
• unyielding
• obdurate
• balky
• headstrong
• wild
• froward
• dogged
• mulish
• insurgent
• uncontrollable
• defiant
• hardheaded
• unmanageable
• unamenable
• resistant
• perverse
• mischievous
• bad
• incompliant
• naughty
• disorderly
• balky
• errant
• pigheaded
• self-willed
• undisciplined
• impudent
• insolent
• dissident
• rude
• disrespectful
• nonconformist
• impolite
• ill-bred
• misbehaving
• ill-mannered

Examples of duteous in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The administrator in him favors the long view; the duteous building of a team over the course of years. —John Altavilla, courant.com, 12 May 2017