Dutiful vs Filial - What's the difference?
dutiful | filial |
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.
(not comparable) Pertaining to or befitting a son or daughter.
* 1794 , ,
(comparable) Respectful of the duties and attitudes of a son or daughter toward their parents.
* 1885 , , "The actions and Attitude of Filiality", translated by James Legge,Cited in Robert E. Van Voorst (ed.) (2005), Anthology of world scriptures , ISBN 0-534-52099-5
(genetics) Of a generation or generations descending from a specific previous one.
* 1916 , ,
As adjectives the difference between dutiful and filial
is that dutiful is accepting of one's legal or moral obligations and willing to do them well, and without complaint while filial is (not comparable) pertaining to or befitting a son or daughter.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.
filial
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Adjective
(en adjective)- The filial duty Ellesmere had paid to a father, who had no other claim to it than that he was'' his father, was now consoling to ''him [D'Alonville]; [...]
- If the admonition [to the parent] does not take effect, the son will be more reverential and more filial ; [...]
Genetics & Eugenics, p. 101.
- This, following Bateson, we may call the parental generation or P generation. Subsequent generations are called filial generations (abbreviated F) and their numerical order is indicated by a subscript, [...]