adj.

1. Attentive to potential danger, error, or harm; cautious: was careful when crossing the busy street; gave a careful answer.
2. Thorough and painstaking in action or execution; conscientious: a careful search; careful art restorers.
3. Protective; solicitous: Be careful of his feelings.
4. Full of cares or anxiety: “Thou art careful and troubled about many things” (Luke 10:41).

carefully care'ful·ly adv.
carefulness care'ful·ness n.

SYNONYMS  careful, heedful, mindful, observant, watchful. These adjectives mean cautiously attentive: was careful not to get her shoes muddy; heedful of the danger; mindful of his health; observant of the patient's symptoms; a watchful babysitter. See also synonyms at meticulous.
ANTONYM  careless

adjective

1. Cautiously attentive: heedful, mindful, observant, watchful. See careful/careless.
2. Trying attentively to avoid danger, risk, or error: cautious, chary, circumspect, forehanded, gingerly, prudent, wary. See careful/careless.
3. Showing or marked by attentiveness to all aspects or details: fastidious, meticulous, painstaking, punctilious, scrupulous. See careful/careless.

adj

Definition: cautious; painstaking
Antonyms: careless, inattentive, incautious, thoughtless, uncareful, unconcerned, unscrupulous

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IN BRIEF: Exercising caution or showing attention; With dignity; Mindful of the future in spending money; Cautiously attentive; Full of anxiety.

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust. — Gertrude Jekyll 

Dansk (Danish)
adj. - omhyggelig, forsigtig, bekymret

Nederlands (Dutch)
zorgvuldig, zorgzaam, voorzichtig

Français (French)
adj. - prudent, minutieux, méticuleux

Deutsch (German)
adj. - sorgfältig, vorsichtig

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - προσεκτικός, επιμελής

Italiano (Italian)
accurato, attento, premuroso, cauto, prudente, guardingo

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - cuidadoso

Русский (Russian)
точный, заботливый, осторожный

Español (Spanish)
adj. - cuidadoso, esmerado, atento, solícito, cauteloso, concienzudo, prudente

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - försiktig, omsorgsfull

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
小心的, 谨慎的

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 小心的, 謹慎的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 주의 깊은, 검소한

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 注意深い, 念入りな

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) حذر, محترس, , حريص, منتبه, يقظ, دقيق‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮זהיר, מדוקדק, קפדני‬

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