careful
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care·ful
(kâr'fəl) 
adj.
carefulness care'ful·ness n.
adj.
- Attentive to potential danger, error, or harm; cautious: was careful when crossing the busy street; gave a careful answer.
- Thorough and painstaking in action or execution; conscientious: a careful search; careful art restorers.
- Protective; solicitous: Be careful of his feelings.
- Full of cares or anxiety: "Thou art careful and troubled about many things" (Luke 10:41).
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
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careful
adjective
- Cautiously attentive: heedful, mindful, observant, watchful. See careful/careless.
- Trying attentively to avoid danger, risk, or error: cautious, chary, circumspect, forehanded, gingerly, prudent, wary. See careful/careless.
- Showing or marked by attentiveness to all aspects or details: fastidious, meticulous, painstaking, punctilious, scrupulous. See careful/careless.
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careful
adj
Definition: cautious; painstaking
Antonyms: careless, inattentive, incautious, thoughtless, uncareful, unconcerned, unscrupulous
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careful
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
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Careful
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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