Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Showing or practicing caution; careful.
- adj. Tentative or restrained; guarded: felt a cautious optimism that the offer would be accepted.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Possessing or exhibiting caution; attentive to probable effects and consequences of actions with a view to avoid danger or misfortune; prudent; circumspect; wary; watchful: as, a cautious general; a cautious advance.
- With of before the object of caution: wary in regard to the risks of; afraid or heedful of the dangers involved in.
- Over-prudent; timorous; timid.
- Synonyms Prudent, careful, wary, vigilant, heedful, thoughtful, scrupulous.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Attentive to examine probable effects and consequences of acts with a view to avoid danger or misfortune; prudent; circumspect; wary; watchful.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. avoiding excess
- adj. showing careful forethought
- n. people who are fearful and cautious
Examples
“Henry watched amazed as Burgess checked that no one else could see them, his expression cautious and watchful.”
“A shrink had once told him to use the word cautious because of the negative connotations associated with the word paranoid, but Rapp had only laughed.”
“We use the term cautious optimism to account for the mix of factors that each of our customers is weighing slightly differently.”
“MCINTYRE: General Richards 'assessment for the future is peppered with a lot of what he calls cautious optimism.”
“Campaign 2000 refers to what it calls "cautious optimism" in describing some provincial efforts to tackle child and family poverty.”
“While Kroger offered what it called cautious full-year earnings guidance below analysts 'expectations, it did not appear to curtail investors' enthusiasm.”
“But "cautious" is the operative word -- especially now that academia is throwing open its doors and welcoming in the barbarians at the gate.”
“Australia's major banks are experiencing record profitability, but their most recent financial progress updates indicate earnings growth is slowing as small businesses remain cautious, hoarding cash rather than risking expansion.”
The Wall Street Journal: Australian Banks More Likely to Raise Rates
“Many retailers remain cautious about opening additional stores until the broader economy shows more strength.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cautious’.
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EU Buzz - ALL words and expressions
A combined list of
1. EU Buzz - single words
2. EU Buzz - collocations
3. EU Buzz - the 100 most active
collocation constituentsabsorption capacity, absorption rate, acceding country, accession candidate, accession countries, accession country, accession criteria, accession cycle, accession negotia..., accession partner..., accession priorities, accession treaty and 2650 more...
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EU Buzz - single words (1+2+3)
1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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Introverted
Quiet, shy, Introverted, reserved, isolated, mysterious
abashed, alienated, alone, anonymous, antisocial, ascetic, asocial, austere, autonomous, awkward, bashful, clannish and 91 more...
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RBC: Adjectives for Henry's Ma
Our class list of adjectives for Henry's Ma.
determined, cautious, disappointed, uncertain, wise, stubborn, passionate, unsupportive, forgiving, firm, honest, dishonest and 36 more...
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GCI
spinster, maiden, happy-go-lucky, homonym, ill-at-ease, saw red, out of sorts, hot under the collar, taken aback, pen-names, alias, shoelaces and 378 more...
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Descriptive
The present, the future. Goals, wishes, hopes.
capricious, sericeous, sleek, flawless, charming, skilled, long-haired, versatile, beautiful, witty, fair, thin and 145 more...
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classic695's Words
delighted, elated, energetic, excited, enthusiastic, elevated, happy, contented, fine, pleased, satisfied, compassionate and 168 more...
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feeling words
twitterpated, loquacious, ambiguous, pensive, sluggish, anxious, adventurous, curious, abandoned, absent-minded, abrasive, abused and 653 more...
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Expressions
(Facial)
pained, pitiful, reproachful, annoyed, dismissive, excited, eager, spiteful, contemptuous, passive, calm, nervous and 155 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Theme Prompts
There's a fiction meme (mostly on Livejournal) where writers use words as a prompt for a short story snippet. I've been collecting the words that show up on these lists as prompts for creative writ...
white, black, gray, red, orange, yellow, green, indigo, violet, queen, king, prince and 407 more...
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General
attain, stretch, lever, flock, fraught, taunt, dub, deceive, toss, sentient, stale, brew and 52 more...
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only the lonlies
about solitude and liking it
bashful, cautious, close-mouthed, wallflower, introverted, cold, collected, cool, demure, modest, offish, quiet and 30 more...
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soxfan1302's list
this is my list
insolent, objective, subjective, faux, benevolent, biased, wane, immature, mature, abdicate, vigor, hangdog and 50 more...
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