What does carefully mean?
Definitions for carefully
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Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word carefully.
Princeton's WordNet
carefullyadverb
taking care or paying attention
"they watched carefully"
cautiously, carefullyadverb
as if with kid gloves; with caution or prudence or tact
"she ventured cautiously downstairs"; "they handled the incident with kid gloves"
Wiktionary
carefullyadverb
In a careful manner.
carefullyadverb
With attention to the result.
He carefully avoided the subject all evening.
Etymology: From carfulli, carefulliche, from carfullice, equivalent to.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Carefullyadverb
Etymology: from careful.
Envy, how carefully does it look? how meager and ill-complexion’d? Collier.
You come most carefully upon your hour. William Shakespeare, Hamlet.
By considering him so carefully as I did before my attempt, I have made some faint resemblance of him. Dryden.
All of them, therefore, studiously cherished the memory of their honourable extraction, and carefully preserved the evidences of it. Francis Atterbury.
Webster Dictionary
Carefullyadverb
in a careful manner
British National Corpus
Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'carefully' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1437
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'carefully' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2021
Adverbs Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'carefully' in Adverbs Frequency: #132
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of carefully in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of carefully in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of carefully in a Sentence
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
But we still need to take our time to assess the market condition carefully.
The church is near, but the way is icy, The tavern is far, but I will walk carefully.
Last week's carefully managed rollout was designed to downplay the plans of a massive intrusion in the Internet economy ... . I have now read the 332-page plan. It is worse than I had imagined.
We're working closely with our program leadership, faculty and risk managers to carefully assess the situation in France and elsewhere to see if any changes need to be made.
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- عنايةArabic
- асцярожнаBelarusian
- грижливо, внимателноBulgarian
- acuradamentCatalan, Valencian
- opatrněCzech
- forsigtigDanish
- vorsichtigGerman
- zorge, zorgemeEsperanto
- a conciencia, cuidadosamente, minuciosamenteSpanish
- kontuz, arretazBasque
- varovasti, varovaisesti, tarkasti, tarkoinFinnish
- soigneusementFrench
- go haireachIrish
- सावधानी सेHindi
- կամաց, զգույշArmenian
- Hati-hatiIndonesian
- meticolosamente, accuratamente, attentamente, minuziosamente, puntigliosamenteItalian
- 慎重に, じっくりJapanese
- ដោយប្រុងប្រយ័ត្នKhmer
- 주의하여, 신중히, 조심스럽게Korean
- به هێواشی, به وردیKurdish
- curiose, cauteLatin
- voorzichtigDutch
- ostrożniePolish
- cuidadosamente, cautelosamentePortuguese
- cu grijaRomanian
- осторожно, внимательно, аккуратноRussian
- pòmnjivo, brìžljivo, pȏmnoSerbo-Croatian
- försiktigSwedish
- taratibuSwahili
- обережноUkrainian
- 小心Chinese
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