adjadj.allexercising caution or showing care or attentionAttributes:carefulness
Examples:- they were careful when crossing the busy street
- be careful to keep her shoes clean
- did very careful research
- careful art restorers
- careful of the rights of others
- careful about one's behavior
Antonyms:careless
Derivationally Related Form:carefulness
Inherited Hypernyms:careful
Similar to:blow-by-blow certain sure close conscientious painstaking scrupulous detailed elaborate elaborated minute narrow overcareful too-careful particular protective studious thorough
See also:cautious diligent prudent
adj satadj.allcautiously attentiveSynset:heedful
Examples:- careful of her feelings
- heedful of his father's advice
Antonyms:unmindful
Derivationally Related Form:carefulnessheedfulness
Inherited Hypernyms:careful
Similar to:aware mindful
adj satadj.allunhurried and with care and dignitySynset:deliberate measured
Examples:- walking at the same measured pace
- with all deliberate speed
Antonyms:hurried
Derivationally Related Form:carefulnessdeliberateness
Inherited Hypernyms:careful
Similar to:unhurried
adj satadj.allfull of cares or anxietyDomain Usage:archaicismarchaism
Examples:- Thou art careful and troubled about many things"-Luke 10.41
Antonyms:untroubled
Derivationally Related Form:carefulness
Inherited Hypernyms:careful
Similar to:troubled
adj satadj.allmindful of the future in spending moneySynset:thrifty
Antonyms:improvident
Derivationally Related Form:thriftinesscarefulnessthrift
Inherited Hypernyms:careful
Similar to:provident