Dutiful vs Amenable - What's the difference?
dutiful | amenable |
Accepting of one's legal or moral obligations and willing to do them well, and without complaint.
Pertaining to one's duty; demonstrative of one's sense of duty.
Willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions.
Willing to comply with; agreeable.
(math, of a group) Being a locally compact topological group carrying a kind of averaging operation on bounded functions that is invariant under translation by group elements.
As adjectives the difference between dutiful and amenable
is that dutiful is accepting of one's legal or moral obligations and willing to do them well, and without complaint while amenable is willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions.dutiful
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Alternative forms
* dutifull (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)- Ralph was a dutiful child, and took the trash out without being told.
- The sergeant maintained a dutiful shine on his boots.
