careful

Adjektiv

1. 1

   Taking care; attentive to potential danger, error or harm; cautious.

   He was a slow and careful driver.

   Be very careful (while) trekking through the jungle.

   John Aubrey Douglass, a senior research fellow at the Center for Studies in Higher Education at Berkeley, said that while he was not an insider on admissions practices, “my sense is that admissions is highly regulated and careful to stay clear of Prop 209 restrictions, and the Supreme Court’s ruling on affirmative action.”

2. 2

   Conscientious and painstaking; meticulous.

   They made a careful search of the crime scene.

   At the same time, we were cognisant that careful scholars should never solely rely on their own impressionistic observations, and, that our own impressions were inexact and not capable of being quantified.

3. 3

   veraltetFull of care or grief; sorrowful, sad.

4. 4

   veraltetFull of cares or anxiety; worried, troubled.

   Where through long watch, and late daies weary toile, / She soundly slept, and carefull thoughts did quite assoile.

Formen

Komparativ

more careful

Superlativ

most careful