considerate

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But be a little careful of him--considerate, I mean--he's not very strong Chandoo?"

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  1. adjective Having or marked by regard for the needs or feelings of others. See Synonyms at thoughtful.
  2. adjective Characterized by careful thought; deliberate.

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  • He is the kind of leader--considerate, strict, careless of unessential formalities, careful of all essential details, jolly of face, kind of eye, a good companion on the road, a rock of strength and confidence in the field--who is obeyed in the spirit as well as the letter, and for whom men would gladly march their feet to blisters. —  The Relief of Mafeking How it Was Accomplished by Mahon's Flying Column; with an Account of Some Earlier Episodes in the Boer War of 1899-1900
  • No purchase by Penn was made with more scrupulous regard to the rights of the Indians than the purchases by which the settlers of Connecticut acquired title to their lands; but I know of no New England precedent for the somewhat Punic piece of sharp practice by which the metes and bounds of one of the Pennsylvania purchases were laid down The long exemption of Pennsylvania from trouble with the Indians seems to be due to the fact that an exceptionally mild, considerate, and conscientious body of settlers was confronted with a tribe of savages thoroughly subdued and cowed in recent conflicts with enemies both red and white. —  A History of American Christianity
  • But be a little careful of him--considerate, I mean--he's not very strong Chandoo?" —  Civilization Tales of the Orient
  • You can't think what a good nurse Effie has been--the most considerate, the most thoughtful, the most kind and clever darling you can possibly imagine. —  A Girl in Ten Thousand
  • The operations in which you are engaged will, for the most part, take place in a friendly country and you can do your own country no better service than in showing yourself, in France and Belgium, in the true character of a British soldier Be invariably courteous, considerate, and kind. —  Kitchener's Mob Adventures of an American in the British Army
 

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  1. Middle English, observed, from Latin cōnsīderātus, past participle of cōnsīderāre, to consider; see consider.

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  1. = Spanish Portuguese considerado = Italian considerato, from Latin consideratus, past participle of considerare, consider: see consider.
 

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