Cautious
['kɔːʃəs] or ['kɔʃəs]
Definition
(adj.) showing careful forethought; 'reserved and cautious; never making swift decisions'; 'a cautious driver' .
(adj.) avoiding excess; 'a conservative estimate' .
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Definition
(a.) Attentive to examine probable effects and consequences of acts with a view to avoid danger or misfortune; prudent; circumspect; wary; watchful; as, a cautious general.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Prudent, wary, careful, heedful, chary, circumspect, discreet, watchful, vigilant.
Editor: Nancy
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See CIRCUMSPECT]
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Examples
- Be cautious then, young ladies; be wary how you engage. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- If a man of my cunning cannot circumvent this dull-headed— Cautious. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Cautious, very cautious, thought Emma; he advances inch by inch, and will hazard nothing till he believes himself secure. Jane Austen. Emma.
- We were very wrong before; we will be cautious now. Jane Austen. Emma.
- He had played nearly every day at one club or other, but he was a cautious player, and usually rose a winner. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- An old philosophical friend of mine was grown, from experience, very cautious in this particular, and carefully avoided any intimacy with such people. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- She was displeased; I thought unreasonably so: I thought her, on a thousand occasions, unnecessarily scrupulous and cautious: I thought her even cold. Jane Austen. Emma.
- And Briggs promised to be very cautious. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- You are very cautious, I suppose, as to its _being created_. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- With cautious speech, good council take, Beware! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- But Gutenberg was by nature cautious. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- As he pronounced these words aloud, a voice very near him called out in a low and cautious tone, Wamba! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- In the first place we should be extremely cautious in inferring, because an area is now continuous, that it has been continuous during a long period. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Your thervant, Thquire,' was his cautious salutation as they passed in. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Well, I will make this cautious Englishman do as I wish. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
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