Dictionary Definition
cautious adj
1 showing careful forethought; "reserved and
cautious; never making swift decisions"; "a cautious driver" [ant:
incautious]
2 avoiding excess; "a conservative estimate"
[syn: conservative]
3 cautious in attitude and careful in actions;
prudent; "a cautious answer"; "very cautious about believing
everything she was told"
4 unwilling to take risks n : people who are
fearful and cautious; "whitewater rafting is not for the timid"
[syn: timid] [ant:
brave]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɔːʃəs
Adjective
Translations
careful
- Czech: opatrný
- Finnish: varovainen, huolellinen
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
alert,
ambling, attentive, cagey, calculating, canny, careful, chary, circumspect, claudicant, considerate, cozy, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail,
curious, deliberate, demurring, diffident, discreet, disinclined to
believe, disposed to doubt, easy, expedient, faltering, flagging, foot-dragging,
foresighted,
forethoughtful,
gentle, gingerly, gradual, guarded, halting, hard of belief,
heedful, hesitant, hesitating, hobbled, hobbling, idle, impervious to persuasion,
inconvincible,
incredulous,
indolent, jibbing, judicious, languid, languorous, lazy, leaving out nothing, leery, leisurely, limping, loving, lumbering, mindful, moderate, noncommittal, on guard,
overlooking no possibility, pawky, poking, poky, politic, precautious, provident, prudent, regardful, relaxed, reluctant, safe, sauntering, scheming, scrupling, shilly-shallying,
shrewd, shuffling, shy of belief,
skeptical, slack, slothful, slow, slow as death, slow as
molasses, slow as slow, slow to act, slow-crawling, slow-foot,
slow-going, slow-legged, slow-moving, slow-paced, slow-poky,
slow-running, slow-sailing, slow-stepped, sluggish, snail-paced, snaillike, solicitous, staggering, sticking, stickling, straining, strolling, suspecting, suspicious, tender, tentative, thorough, thoughtful, timid, toddling, tortoiselike, tottering, trudging, turtlelike, unadventurous, uncommunicative,
unconvincible,
uncredulous,
undaring, unenterprising, unhurried, unpersuadable, unpersuasible, unprecipitate, unwilling
to accept, vigilant,
waddling, wary, watchful