Definitions for careful
ˌkɛər fəlcare·ful

Princeton's WordNet(3.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. carefuladjective

   exercising caution or showing care or attention

   "they were careful when crossing the busy street"; "be careful to keep her shoes clean"; "did very careful research"; "careful art restorers"; "careful of the rights of others"; "careful about one's behavior"

2. careful, heedfuladjective

   cautiously attentive

   "careful of her feelings"; "heedful of his father's advice"

3. careful, deliberate, measuredadjective

   unhurried and with care and dignity

   "walking at the same measured pace"; "with all deliberate speed"

4. carefuladjective

   full of cares or anxiety

   "Thou art careful and troubled about many things"-Luke 10.41

5. careful, thriftyadjective

   mindful of the future in spending money

   "careful with money"

Wiktionary(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. carefuladjective

   Full of care or grief; sorrowful, sad.

2. carefuladjective

   Full of cares or anxiety; worried, troubled.

3. carefuladjective

   Having care (for); attentive to potential danger, error or harm; cautious.

   He was a slow and careful driver.

4. carefuladjective

   Conscientious and painstaking; meticulous.

   They made a careful search of the crimescene.

5. Etymology: From careful, from carful, cearful, equivalent to.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Carefuladjective

   Etymology: from care and full.

   1. Anxious; solicitous; full of concern.

   Martha, thou art careful, and troubled about many things. Luke, x. 41.

   Welcome, thou pleasing slumber;
   A while embrace me in thy leaden arms,
   And charm my careful thoughts. John Denham, Sophy.

   2. Provident; diligent; cautious; with of or for.

   Behold, thou hast been careful for us with all this care; what is to be done for thee? 2 Kings, iv. 13.

   To cure their mad ambition, they were sent
   To rule a distant province, each alone:
   What could a careful father more have done? Dryden.

   3. Watchful; with of.

   It concerns us to be careful of our conversations. John Ray.

   4. Subject to perturbations; exposed to troubles; full of anxiety; full of solicitude.

   By him that rais’d me to this careful height,
   From that contented hap, which I enjoy’d. William Shakespeare, Richard III.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Carefuladjective

   full of care; anxious; solicitous

2. Carefuladjective

   filling with care or solicitude; exposing to concern, anxiety, or trouble; painful

3. Carefuladjective

   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

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1. Careful

   "Careful" is Guster's second single released off the Keep it Together album. It is also on the live CD and DVD Guster on Ice. Brian Rosenworcel does backup vocals during the "na na na nas" on "Careful". This is only the second time he has been credited with vocals.

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'careful' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2171

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'careful' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1129

3. Adjectives Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'careful' in Adjectives Frequency: #264

How to pronounce careful?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of careful in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of careful in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of careful in a Sentence

1. Brian Chappel:

   The German government understands what they want, we're going to be very careful and make sure we start a program that's going to be successful because nobody wants to have a problem again.

2. Karl Thomas:

   That should make the world wake up and recognize that people may say one thing, but if you aren't careful, a few years later things will be very different.

3. Boris Johnson:

   As COVID becomes endemic, we will need to replace legal requirements with advice and guidance, urging people with the virus to be careful and considerate of others.

4. Kevin McConway:

   One thing this research clearly demonstrates is how difficult it is to tie down whether something like this is indeed a risk factor for cancer. Despite this being a good, competent, careful study involving over quarter of a million women, it still leaves room for doubt about the association, if there is one, between using powder in the genital area and ovarian cancer, there is still uncertainty about whether any such association exists. If it does exist, there is uncertainty about whether the powder itself is what causes any increase in cancer risk. And there's also uncertainty about what the size of the risk increase is, if it there is one.

5. Thomas Carr:

   All we have are bones on a table with lesions. We have to be very careful as scientists in attributing cause.

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