duty-bound

1. 1.

   under a moral obligation to do something

   Synonymsobliged

   Similarobligated

Questions about duty-bound

What does duty-bound mean?

duty-bound means "under a moral obligation to do something".

How many syllables are in duty-bound?

duty-bound has 3 syllables and divides as du-ty--bound under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for duty-bound?

Close synonyms include obliged. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.