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Taking care; attentive to potential danger, error or harm; cautious.
adjetivo
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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.”
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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.
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obsoletoFull of care or grief; sorrowful, sad.
- 4
obsoletoFull of cares or anxiety; worried, troubled.
Where through long watch, and late daies weary toile, / She soundly slept, and carefull thoughts did quite assoile.
Etimologia
From Middle English careful, from Old English carful; equivalent to care + -ful.
Formas
- comparativo
- more careful
- superlativo
- most careful
careful · Taking care; attentive to potential danger, error or harm; cautious.
carefully · With care; attentively, circumspectly.careless · Not concerned or worried (about).caress · An act of endearment; any act or expression of affection; an…