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carefully


adjective

  1. cautious in one’s actions: Be careful when you cross the street.
  2. taking pains in one’s work; exact; thorough: a careful typist.
  3. (of things) done or performed with accuracy or caution: careful research.
  4. solicitously mindful (usually followed by of, about, or in): careful of the rights of others; careful about one’s behavior; careful in speech.
  5. Archaic.
    1. full of anxiety or care; troubled.
    2. causing or attended with anxiety: a careful day.

adjective

  1. cautious in attitude or action; prudent
  2. painstaking in one’s work; thoroughhe wrote very careful script
  3. (usually postpositive; foll by of, in, or about) solicitous; protectivecareful of one’s reputation
  4. archaic full of care; anxious
  5. British mean or miserly
adv.

Old English carful-lice; see careful + -ly (2).

adj.

Old English cearful “mournful, sad,” also “full of care or woe; anxious; full of concern” (for someone or something), thus “applying attention, painstaking, circumspect;” from care (n.) + -ful.

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