| Main Entry: | prudence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | caution |
Synonyms: |
austerity, calculation, care, carefulness, circumspection, concern, conservation, conservatism, considerateness, coolness, deliberation, diligence, discretion, economy, foresight, forethought, frugality, heed, heedfulness, judgment, judiciousness, precaution, providence, reasoning, sagacity, tact, vigilance, watchfulness, wisdom |
Antonyms: |
carelessness, disregard, imprudence, rashness, recklessness |
| Main Entry: | prudence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | carefulness |
Synonyms: |
calculation, canniness, caution, cautiousness, circumspection, discretion, economy, foresight, forethought, frugality, judiciousness, moderation, providence, restraint, sense, sophrosyne, temperance, thrift, vigilance, wisdom |
Antonyms: |
recklessness |
| Main Entry: | austerity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | refraining; abstinence |
Synonyms: |
abstemiousness, asceticism, chasteness, chastity, continence, determination, economy, prudence, puritanism, self-denial, self-discipline, sobriety, stoicism, strictness, temperance |
Antonyms: |
elaborateness, extravagance, indulgence, spending |
| Main Entry: | calculation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | forethought |
Synonyms: |
canniness, caution, circumspection, contrivance, deliberation, discretion, foresight, planning, precaution, prudence, thought |
| Main Entry: | care |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | carefulness, attention to detail |
Synonyms: |
alertness, caution, circumspection, concentration, concern, conscientiousness, consideration, diligence, direction, discrimination, effort, enthusiasm, exactness, exertion, fastidiousness, forethought, heed, interest, management, meticulousness, nicety, pains, particularity, precaution, prudence, regard, scrupulousness, solicitude, thought, trouble, vigilance, wariness, watchfulness |
Antonyms: |
carelessness, neglect, negligence, omission, oversight |
| Main Entry: | caution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | alertness, carefulness |
Synonyms: |
Fabian policy, attention, canniness, care, circumspection, deliberation, discreetness, discretion, foresight, forethought, heed, heedfulness, providence, prudence, vigilance, watchfulness |
Antonyms: |
heedlessness, imprudence, indiscretion, neglect, negligence, thoughtlessness |
| Main Entry: | common sense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sound judgment |
Synonyms: |
acumen, cool, experience, good reasoning, good sense, gumption, horse sense, horse sense, intelligence, levelheadedness, logic, mother wit, practicality, prudence, rationality, reason, reasonableness, sense, sensibleness, sound judgment, sound sense, soundness, sweet reason, wisdom, wit, wits |
Antonyms: |
foolishness, impracticality, insanity, unreasonableness |
| Main Entry: | deliberation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | serious thought, discussion |
Synonyms: |
application, attention, brainwork, calculation, care, carefulness, caution, cerebration, circumspection, cogitation, confabulation, conference, consideration, consultation, debate, forethought, heed, meditation, prudence, purpose, rap, ratiocination, reflection, speculation, study, ventilation, wariness |
| Main Entry: | discretion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | caution, judgment |
Synonyms: |
acumen, attention, calculation, canniness, care, carefulness, chariness, circumspection, concern, considerateness, consideration, deliberation, diplomacy, discernment, discrimination, foresight, forethought, good sense, gumption, heed, heedfulness, judiciousness, maturity, observation, perspicacity, precaution, presence of mind, providence, prudence, responsibility, sagacity, sense, shrewdness, solicitude, tact, thoughtfulness, vigilance, wariness, warning, watchfulness, wisdom |
Antonyms: |
carelessness, indiscretion, thoughtlessness |
| Main Entry: | economy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | saving, frugality |
Synonyms: |
abridgement, austerity, care, carefulness, caution, curtailment, cutback, decrease, deduction, direction, discretion, husbandry, layoff, meanness, miserliness, moratorium, niggardliness, parcity, parsimony, providence, prudence, recession, reduction, regulation, restraint, retrenchment, rollback, scrimping, shrinkage, skimping, sparingness, stinginess, supervision, thrift, thriftiness |
Antonyms: |
spending, squandering |