英语词汇“careful”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	careful
释义	care·ful \ˈ ̷ ̷fəl, -R also ˈkaf-\ adjective (sometimes carefuller \-f(ə)lə(r)\ ; sometimes carefullest \-f(ə)lə̇st\) Etymology: Middle English, fromOld English carful, cearful, from caru, cearu care + ful or full full — more at care, full 1. archaic a. : full of care : solicitous, troubled < be careful for nothing — Phil 4:6(Authorized Version) > b. : filling with care or solicitude : causing or exposing to concern, anxiety, or trouble < by Him that raised me to this careful height — Shakespeare > 2. : exercising thoughtful supervision or making solicitous provision : taking good care — usually used with for or of < careful of a child's welfare > 3. : marked by care: as a. : marked by attentive concern and solicitude < a sad accident! He will need very careful watching — Bram Stoker > b. : marked by wary caution or prudence < be very careful of the moving blades > < the perpetual fear which prompts careful stepping — Herbert Spencer > c. : marked by painstaking effort to avoid errors or omissions < a careful, sober, and accurate description of the events > < careful of detail, laborious, methodical — J.R.Green > — often used with of or with an infinitive < careful of money > < careful to adjust the machine > Synonyms: meticulous, punctilious, scrupulous, punctual: careful indicates a varying blend of attentiveness and caution < Oh, I intend being very careful — Jack London > < have given the matter very careful attention — J.P.Marquand > < a careful search conducted by three young ladies and the postmaster in question — Dorothy Sayers > meticulous describes extreme attentiveness to detail or timorous caution about minutiae < the meticulous care with which the operation in Sicily was planned has paid dividends. For our casualties … have been low — F.D.Roosevelt > < McKinley … was too polite, too meticulous in his observation of the formalities of the political Sanhedrin — W.A.White > punctilious describes extreme attention to fine points < lecture scripts, every one of them marked with punctilious care for emphasis, accent, and pause — A.T.Quiller-Couch > < the punctilious honor of the Spanish gentleman — George Santayana > scrupulous describes painstaking attention to the proper and fitting, the fair and ethical, or the exact and true < it's simply that I owe my city the most scrupulous performance of duty in safeguarding it from disease — Sinclair Lewis > < more zealous about the triumph of their righteous cause than scrupulous about the justice of their arguments — M.R.Cohen > Once a synonym of punctilious, punctual now stresses fidelity to agreed-on times, as for appointments or payments < I made Mr. Middleditch punctual before he died, though when he married me he was known far and wide as a man who could not be up to time — Compton Mackenzie >
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