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| Type | Words |
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| Synonyms | conservative |
cautious::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Derivation | caution, cautiousness |
reserved and cautious; never making swift decisions.
a cautious driver.
Examples of cautious
cautious
Nan Fung has always been prudent and cautious when calculating risk in business.
From the forbes.com
Cleary himself was a bit more cautious, saying stopping and turning still hurts.
From the freep.com
He is, too often, more reactive than inspirational, more cautious than forceful.
From the post-gazette.com
Satoshi Iue is an astute and cautious businessman, not prone to hasty decisions.
From the businessweek.com
Lingering anxiety about future terrorist attacks also makes some execs cautious.
From the businessweek.com
You'd think playing cautious would lead the other way, but in me, it always has.
From the sacbee.com
Then they can get a lead and drop back into their super-cautious, shutdown mode.
From the bostonherald.com
However, it was more cautious on the outlook for its plastic packaging division.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Supermarkets managed to tick up despite a cautious note from JP Morgan Cazenove.
From the telegraph.co.uk
- Showing careful forethought; "reserved and cautious; never making swift decisions"; "a cautious driver"
- Timid: people who are fearful and cautious; "whitewater rafting is not for the timid"
- Avoiding excess; "a conservative estimate"
- (cautiously) as if with kid gloves; with caution or prudence or tact; "she ventured cautiously downstairs"; "they handled the incident with kid gloves"
- (cautiousness) caution: the trait of being cautious; being attentive to possible danger; "a man of caution"
- (caution) warn strongly; put on guard
- Cautiousness is a faculty from Phrenology.
- (Caution (album)) Caution is an album by the band Hot Water Music and released by Epitaph Records on October 8, 2002.
- (Caution (football)) Misconduct in association football is any conduct by a player that is deemed by the referee to warrant a disciplinary sanction (caution or dismissal) in accordance with Law 12 of the Laws of the Game. ...
