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Careful   /kˈɛrfəl/   Listen
Careful

adjective
1.
Exercising caution or showing care or attention.  "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"  Antonym: careless.
2.
Cautiously attentive.  Synonym: heedful.  "Heedful of his father's advice"
3.
Unhurried and with care and dignity.  Synonyms: deliberate, measured.  "With all deliberate speed"
4.
Full of cares or anxiety.
5.
Mindful of the future in spending money.  Synonym: thrifty.



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... is worthy of a place with 'The Study of Australian Butterflies,' by the same careful ...
— Platform Monologues • T. G. Tucker
... earlier that night. The rector was reading aloud an endless collection of letters, from which the careful student could scarcely fail to gather side-lights on history. Both Miriam and Loo heard the clang of the iron gate on ...
— The Last Hope • Henry Seton Merriman
... reached a spot in my onward path at which I must make a decided choice. I must go either to the right or the left: for, as Goldsmith has remarked with great force, when the road you are pursuing parts into several roads, you must be careful to follow only one. And I had to decide between country and town. I had to resolve whether I was to remain in that quiet cure of souls about which I formerly told you; or go into the hard work and hurry of a large parish in a ...
— The Recreations of A Country Parson • A. K. H. Boyd
... with most difficulty, we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have ...
— Life and Literature - Over two thousand extracts from ancient and modern writers, - and classified in alphabetical order • J. Purver Richardson
... all the provisions, made out a very careful list of their amount; he calculated that each man could have three quarters of a ration for a journey of three weeks. A whole ration was set aside for the four dogs which should draw it. If Duke aided them, he was to ...
— The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras • Jules Verne


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