Conscientious
Conscientious adjective - Guided by or in accordance with one's sense of right and wrong.
Usage example: operated on the belief that most people are conscientious, the unattended farm stand has a price list and a money drawer for customers to leave payment for their purchases
Dutiful is a synonym for conscientious in responsible topic. In some cases you can use "Dutiful" instead an adjective "Conscientious".
Dutiful
Dutiful adjective - Marked by or showing proper regard for another's higher status.
Conscientious is a synonym for dutiful in responsible topic. You can use "Conscientious" instead an adjective "Dutiful", if it concerns topics such as obedient.
Nearby Word: dutifully
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- attentive and conscientious
- attentive and dutiful
- good and conscientious
- good and dutiful
- devoted and conscientious
- devoted and dutiful
- respectful and conscientious
- respectful and dutiful
- deferential and conscientious
- deferential and dutiful
- true and conscientious
- true and dutiful
- honest and conscientious
- honest and dutiful
Both words in one sentence
- Twilight Sparkle — Intellectual, driven, conscientious, principled, and dutiful, but also obsessive-compulsive, and (at least initially) cold and impersonal.
- The Dutiful Son: Sostratos is very conscientious and gets along well with his father.
- Of course, all of this is undone once he finds the letters.... Friendship Moment: Rosawitha showing up at Effi's apartment after the divorce Germanic Efficiency and Germanic Depressives: Innstetten is extremely conscientious in his bureaucratic job, dutiful, repressed, and pedantic.
Source: Literature / Effi Briest
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