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carefuladjective having or showing a close attentiveness to avoiding danger or troublecareful drivers slow down on slick or icy roadways alert, cautious, chary, circumspect, conservative, considerate, gingerly, guarded, heedful, safe, wary advertent, attentive, awake, observant, regardful, vigilant, watchfulhypercautiousforesighted, foresightful, forethoughtful, provident, thoughtfulcagey(also cagy), calculating, canny, shrewddeliberate, slowultracareful, ultracautious careless, heedless, incautious, unguarded, unmindful, unsafe, unwary bold, brash, impetuous, rash, reckless, venturesomeasleep, inattentive, regardlessinconsiderate, thoughtlesslax, neglectful, negligent, remissimprudent, indiscreet, injudiciousabsentminded, forgetfulinadvertent, unintentional, unplanned taking, showing, or involving great care and effortthat furniture maker was known to be a most careful worker, so his output was small conscientious, fussy, loving, meticulous, painstaking, scrupulous assiduous, diligent, indefatigable, persevering, sedulousexhaustive, thorough, thoroughgoingalert, attentive, observant, vigilant, watchfulaccurate, exact, precise, strictcritical, demanding, discriminating, exacting, fastidious, finicky, particularcautious, chary, circumspect, gingerly, guarded, heedful, mindful, warydeliberate, plodding, slowstudied, thoughtfulall-out, determined, dogged, intensive, patient, tenacious, tireless, zealous careless cursory, halfheartedheedless, inattentive, incautious, mindless, regardless, unguarded, unsafe, unwarylax, neglectful, negligent, slipshod, sloppy, slovenlyimpreciseinaccurate, uncritical, undemanding, undiscriminatingbold, impetuous, rash, recklessapathetic, indifferent, lackadaisical, lazy, lazyish careful, meticulous, scrupulous, punctilious mean showing close attention to detail.careful implies attentiveness and cautiousness in avoiding mistakes.a careful worker meticulous may imply either commendable extreme carefulness or a hampering finicky caution over small points.meticulous scholarship scrupulous applies to what is proper or fitting or ethical.scrupulous honesty punctilious implies minute, even excessive attention to fine points.punctilious observance of ritual before the 12th century |