Hyphenation of duteous

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word duteous? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

du-teous

Definitions of duteous:

1.	Willingly obedient out of a sense of duty and respect A dutiful child A dutiful citizen Patient Griselda was a chaste and duteous wife

Synonyms of duteous:

adj	dutiful, obedient

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.