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adjective

Careful adj.

Full of care; anxious; solicitous. (Archaic) "Be careful (Rev. Ver. "anxious") for nothing." "The careful plowman doubting stands."

Filling with care or solicitude; exposing to concern, anxiety, or trouble; painful. "The careful cold beginneth for to creep." "By Him that raised me to this careful height."

Taking care; giving good heed; watchful; cautious; provident; not indifferent, heedless, or reckless; often followed by of, for, or the infinitive; as, careful of money; careful to do right. "Thou hast been careful for us with all this care." "What could a careful father more have done?"

Synonyms: Anxious; solicitous; provident; thoughtful; cautious; circumspect; heedful; watchful; vigilant.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Careful" Quotes from Famous Books

... leave her to read, if she can, in my sighs and looks the love with which her beauty has inspired me; but let us be careful not to let her find it out ...

— The Magnificent Lovers (Les Amants magnifiques) • Moliere

... the careful sound of the bolts and bars as they were severally drawn by the trembling hand of old Trapbois, as an omen that the senior did not mean again to revisit him in the course of the evening, and heartily rejoiced that he was at length to be left to ...

— The Fortunes of Nigel • Sir Walter Scott

... in his morals, and conformed literally to all the rigid exactions of his severe order, in the court as faithfully as in the cloister. He was sober, abstemious, chaste. In the latter particular, he was careful that no suspicion of the license which so often soiled the clergy of the period, should attach—to him. [34] On one occasion, while on a journey, he was invited to pass the night at the house of the duchess of Maqueda, being informed that she was absent. The duchess was at home, however, and entered ...

— The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella The Catholic, V3 • William H. Prescott

... yet I must not linger. Oh, my friends, oh, my fellow-men, it is not very long that we shall be here. It is not very long. This life for which we are so careful—it is not very long; and yet it is so long, because, long, long after we have passed away out of men's sight and out of men's memory, the world, with something that we have left upon it, that we have left within it, will be going on still. It is so long because, long after the city and the world ...

— Addresses • Phillips Brooks

... differences between the brains of man and of anthropoid apes, he was careful to lay great stress on the important difference in size and weight. A full-grown gorilla is nearly twice as heavy as a European woman, and yet the heaviest known gorilla brain probably does not exceed twenty ounces in weight, while healthy adult human brains probably never weigh less than ...

— Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work • P. Chalmers Mitchell

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