careful

[careĀ·ful]

If you consider all consequences and do a task thoughtfully, take your time and watch what you are doing, you are being careful. Can you ever be too careful? If you're a stunt man, yes. If you're an accountant, no.

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Full of care; anxious; solicitous

Adjective
exercising caution or showing care or attention; "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 behavi

Adjective S.
with care and dignity; "walking at the same measured pace"; "with all deliberate speed"

Adjective S.
mindful of the future in spending money; "careful with money"

Adjective S.
cautiously attentive; "careful of her feelings"; "heedful of his father''s advice"

Adjective S.
full of cares or anxiety; "Thou art careful and troubled about many things"-Luke 10.41

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a.
Full of care; anxious; solicitous.

a.
Filling with care or solicitude; exposing to concern, anxiety, or trouble; painful.

a.
Taking care; giving good heed; watchful; cautious; provident; not indifferent, heedless, or reckless; -- often followed by of, for, or the infinitive; as, careful of money; careful to do right.


Careful

Care"ful , a. [AS. cearful.] 1. Full of care; anxious; solicitous [Archaic]
Be careful [Rev. Ver. "anxious"] for nothing.
The careful plowman doubting stands.
2. Filling with care or colicitube; exposing to concern, anxiety, or trouble; painful.
The careful cold beinneth for to creep.
By Him that raised me to this careful height.
3. Taking care; gicing good heed; watchful; cautious; provident; not indifferent heedless, or reckless; -- often follower byof, for, or the infinitive; as, careful of money; careful to do right.
Thou hast been careful for us with all this care.
What could a careful father more have done?
Syn. -- Anxious; solicitous; provident; thoughtful; cautious; circumspect; heedful; watchful; vigilant.

Full of care; anxious; solicitous

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Usage Examples

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for perfection is God's business.

But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father.

Don't think your dreams don't come true, because they do. You'd better be careful what you wish for. And I truly and honestly - one day I am doing the 'Beaver' show and I said, 'This is the show I have always wanted to do.'

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

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

But when one believes that you've been appointed by God for a particular mission in history, you have to be very careful about that, how you speak about that. Where is the self-reflection in that? Where is the humility in that?

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. You've got to be careful.

A careful inspection showed them that, even if they succeeded in righting it by themselves, the cart would travel no longer. The axles were in a hopeless state, and the missing wheel was shattered into pieces.

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