careful
IPA: kˈɛrfʌɫ
adjective
- Taking care; attentive to potential danger, error or harm; cautious.
- Conscientious and painstaking; meticulous.
- (obsolete) Full of care or grief; sorrowful, sad.
- (obsolete) Full of cares or anxiety; worried, troubled.
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Examples of "careful" in Sentences
- "I am not careful [perhaps this should be _careful not_] to notice
- This swelling inertia for change that isn't rooted in careful economic study.
- Arranged in careful symmetry, they feature broad ramps symbolizing the ties of government to the people.
- The room is lit only by a circle of red-jarred candles placed in careful order in a circle around an antique ebony table.
- Her thin careful hands demonstrated the various types of coffee she would make fresh for us and also purred over the strengths she had available.
- He takes one of these plates and gives it a careful scouring with rotten-stone and alcohol or any other liquid preferred for this part of the operation -- that is, he gives it what he terms a careful scouring -- very gently indeed because, from the frequent trials he is in the habit of making in the camera, he fears he will rub the silver entirely away before he succeeds in obtaining a good impression.
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