Dutiful vs Sedulous - What's the difference?
dutiful | sedulous | Synonyms |
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.
Diligent in application or pursuit; constant, steady, and persevering in business or in endeavors to effect an object; steadily industrious; assiduous.
* 2001 Pollan, Michael , The Botany of Desire , Random House, New York, page 135:
* 2010 Paul Routledge , Daily Mirror , 9 March 2010 [http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/scotland-is-turning-into-another-country-loch-756030]:
Dutiful is a synonym of sedulous.
As adjectives the difference between dutiful and sedulous
is that dutiful is accepting of one's legal or moral obligations and willing to do them well, and without complaint while sedulous is diligent in application or pursuit; constant, steady, and persevering in business or in endeavors to effect an object; steadily industrious; assiduous.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.
sedulous
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Adjective
(en adjective)- With the right equipment, an indoor grower could create a utopia for his plants, an artificial habitat more perfect than any in nature, [...]. These sedulous attentions would be wasted on male plants, which are worse than useless in sinsemilla production.
- The Scots have always been a fiercely independent people, but it surprised me how far this sedulous process of separation has gone already.