careful
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
careful
- Taking care; attentive to potential danger, error or harm; cautious.
- He was a slow and careful driver.
- Conscientious and painstaking; meticulous.
- They made a careful search of the crime scene.
- (obsolete) Full of care or grief; sorrowful, sad.
- (obsolete) Full of cares or anxiety; worried, troubled.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.1:
- Where through long watch, and late daies weary toile, / She soundly slept, and carefull thoughts did quite assoile.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.1:
- See also Thesaurus:cautious
- See also Thesaurus:meticulous
- French: prudent
- German: vorsichtig, behutsam
- Italian: prudente, cauto
- Portuguese: cauteloso, cuidadoso, prudente
- Russian: осторо́жный
- Spanish: cauto, cuidadoso
- French: soigneux, attentif
- German: sorgfältig
- Italian: accurato, attento
- Portuguese: cuidadoso, meticuloso
- Russian: тща́тельный
- Spanish: cuidadoso
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