duty-bound
Synonyms for duty-bound
- appreciative
- beholden
- grateful
- obligated
- obliged
- thankful
- accountable
- answerable for
- bound
- bounden
- chargeable
- honor-bound
- hooked
- in debt
- in hock
- liable
- owed
- owing
- responsible
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As a rule, parents think themselves in duty-bound to take their boys to the seaside for these holidays.
Old Marster fooled us to believe we was duty-bound to stay with him till we was all twenty-one.
But to everything Pan Stanislav answered: “A fish, a duty-bound fish.”
RELATED WORDS AND SYNONYMS FOR DUTY-BOUND
- answerable
- at fault
- at the helm
- authoritative
- bonded
- bound
- bound to
- carrying the load
- censurable
- chargeable
- compelled
- constrained
- contracted
- culpable
- decision-making
- devolving on
- duty-bound
- engaged
- executive
- exposed
- fettered
- guilty
- hampered
- held
- high
- important
- in authority
- in control
- incumbent
- liable
- minding the store
- obligated
- obliged
- on the hook
- open
- pledged
- subject
- susceptive
- sworn to
- tied
- to blame
- under contract
- under obligation
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.