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| Main Entry: | careful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cautious; painstaking |
| Synonyms: | accurate, alert, apprehensive, assiduous, attentive, chary, choosy, circumspect, concerned, conscientious, conservative, cool, deliberate, discreet, exacting, fastidious, finicky, fussy, guarded, heedful, judicious, leery, meticulous, mindful, observant, particular, precise, prim, protective, provident, prudent, punctilious, regardful, religious, rigorous, scrupulous, shy, sober, solicitous, solid, thorough, thoughtful, vigilant, wary, going to great lengths, playing safe, selfdisciplined |
| Antonyms: | careless, inattentive, incautious, thoughtless, unconcerned, unscrupulous, uncareful |
| Main Entry: | alert |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | attentive, lively |
| Synonyms: | active, all ears, bright, cagey*, careful, circumspect, clever, fast on the draw, good hands, heads up, heedful, hip, intelligent, jazzed, observant, on guard*, on one's toes, on the ball*, on the job, on the lookout, on the qui vive, perceptive, psyched up, quick, ready, sharp, spirited, switched on, vigilant, wary, watchful, wide-awake, wired*, wise, with it* |
| Antonyms: | asleep, drowsy, inattentive, lethargic, sluggish, unobservant, weary |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | businesslike |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | efficient, professional |
| Synonyms: | accomplished, careful, concentrated, correct, diligent, direct, earnest, effective, enterprising, expeditious, hardworking, industrious, intent, matter-of-fact, methodical, orderly, organized, painstaking, practical, practiced, purposeful, regular, routine, sedulous, serious, skillful, systematic, thorough, disciplined, well-ordered, workaday |
| Antonyms: | amateur, disorganized, inefficient, unprofessional, unbusinesslike |
| Main Entry: | cagey |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tricky |
| Synonyms: | cagey, careful, circumspect, crafty, cunning, leery, secretive, shrewd, sly, wary, wily |
| Main Entry: | calculating |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | scheming to manipulate |
| Synonyms: | Machiavellian, artful, canny, careful, cautious, chary, circumspect, considerate, crafty, cunning, designing, devious, discreet, gingerly, guarded, intelligent, politic, safe, scheming, sharp, shrewd, sly, wary, wily, contriving, guileful, manipulative, premeditating |
| Antonyms: | artless, naive, unassuming, uncalculating |
| Main Entry: | canny |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clever, artful |
| Synonyms: | able, acute, adroit, astute, cagey, careful, cautious, circumspect, cunning, dexterous, discreet, foxy*, frugal, ingenious, intelligent, judicious, knowing, perspicacious, prudent, quick, quick-witted, sagacious, shrewd, skillful, slick, slippery*, sly, smart, smooth*, street smart*, subtle, wary, watchful, wise, with it*, worldly-wise, having fancy footwork, hep, nimble-witted, streetwise |
| Antonyms: | foolish, inept, silly |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | circumspect |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cautious, discreet |
| Synonyms: | attentive, cagey, calculating, canny, careful, chary, considerate, deliberate, discriminating, gingerly, guarded, heedful, judicious, meticulous, observant, politic, prudent, punctilious, safe, sagacious, sage, scrupulous, vigilant, wary, watchful |
| Antonyms: | audacious, bold, careless, incautious, indiscreet, rash, uncareful, uncircumspect, unheedful |
| Main Entry: | deliberate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intentional |
| Synonyms: | advised, calculated, careful, cautious, cold-blooded, conscious, considered, cut-and-dried*, express, fixed, intended, meticulous, planned, predetermined, premeditated, provident, prudent, purposeful, scrupulous, studied, studious, thoughtful, voluntary, wary, willful, aforethought, designed, designful, done on purpose, judged, pondered, prearranged, predesigned, predeterminate, prepense, projected, purposed, purposive, reasoned, resolved, schemed, thought out, weighed, with forethought, witting |
| Antonyms: | chance, indeterminate, unintentional, unwitting, unmethodical, unsystematic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | diligent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | persevering, hard-working |
| Synonyms: | active, assiduous, attentive, busy, careful, conscientious, constant, eager, eager beaver*, earnest, grind*, indefatigable, industrious, laborious, occupied, operose, painstaking, persistent, pertinacious, sedulous, steadfast, studious, tireless, unflagging, unrelenting, untiring, persisting, plugging |
| Antonyms: | inactive, indifferent, languid, lazy, lethargic, negligent |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | discreet |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cautious, sensible |
| Synonyms: | alert, attentive, awake, cagey, calculating, careful, chary, circumspect, civil, conservative, considerate, diplomatic, discerning, discriminating, gingerly, guarded, heedful, intelligent, judicious, moderate, noncommittal, observant, politic, prudent, reasonable, reserved, restrained, safe, sagacious, strategic, tactful, temperate, thoughtful, vigilant, wary, watchful, wise, worldly-wise, controlled, having foresight, like a clam, not rash, on lookout, precautious |
| Notes: | discreet means 'judicious, prudent, showing discernment,' while discrete means 'detached, separate' and 'individually distinct' |
| Antonyms: | careless, foolish, incautious, indiscreet, rash, reckless, thoughtless, uncareful, undiscerning |
| Main Entry: | discriminating |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | critical |
| Synonyms: | acute, astute, careful, choosy, discerning, distinctive, eclectic, fastidious, finicky, fussy, judicious, keen, opinionated, particular, persnickety*, picky, prudent, refined, select, selective, sensitive, tasteful, wise, choicy, cultivated, finical, individualizing |
| Antonyms: | uncritical, undiscriminating |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | elaborate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intricate; involved |
| Synonyms: | busy, careful, complex, complicated, detailed, elegant, exact, extensive, extravagant, fancy, fussy, imposing, knotty, labored, labyrinthine, luxurious, minute, ornate, ostentatious, overdone, overworked, painstaking, perfected, plush, posh, precise, prodigious, refined, showy, skillful, sophisticated, studied, thorough, decorated, embellished, garnished, high tech, highly wrought, many-faceted, ornamented, with all the extras, with all the options, with bells and whistles |
| Antonyms: | general, normal, plain, regular, simple, uncomplicated, usual, unelaborate, uninvolved |
| Main Entry: | exacting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | demanding |
| Synonyms: | burdensome, careful, critical, difficult, exigent, finicky, fussy, grievous, hard, harsh, hypercritical, imperious, onerous, oppressive, painstaking, particular, persnickety, picky, precise, rigid, rigorous, severe, stern, strict, stringent, taxing, tough, trying, unsparing, weighty, by the book, nit-picking |
| Antonyms: | giving, lending |
| Main Entry: | frugal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | economical |
| Synonyms: | Spartan*, abstemious, canny, careful, chary, discreet, meager, meticulous, parsimonious, penny-pinching*, provident, prudent, saving, sparing, stingy, thrifty, tight, tightwad*, wary, conserving, mingy, niggardly, penny-wise, preserving, scrimping, unwasteful |
| Antonyms: | generous, lavish, wasteful, spendthrifty, uneconomical |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fussy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | meticulous, particular |
| Synonyms: | careful, choosy, conscientious, dainty, difficult, discriminating, exact, exacting, fastidious, finicky, fretful, fuddy-duddy*, heedful, painstaking, persnickety, picky, punctilious, punctual, querulous, scrupulous, squeamish, conscionable, finical, hard to please, nit-picking, overfastidious, picky-picky, stickling |
| Antonyms: | uncritical, undemanding, unfussy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | guarded |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | suspicious |
| Synonyms: | attentive, cagey, calculating, canny, careful, cautious, chary, circumspect, discreet, gingerly, leery, noncommittal, prudent, reserved, restrained, reticent, safe, vigilant, wary, watchful, on the lookout, overcareful, overcautious, with eyes peeled |
| Antonyms: | careless, incautious, unguarded, unsuspicious, unwatchful |
| Main Entry: | judicious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wise, thoughtful |
| Synonyms: | accurate, acute, astute, calculating, careful, cautious, circumspect, considerate, considered, diplomatic, discerning, discreet, discriminating, efficacious, enlightened, expedient, far-sighted, informed, judicial, keen, perceptive, perspicacious, politic, profound, prudent, quick-witted, rational, reasonable, sagacious, sage, sane, sapient, seasonable, seemly, sensible, sharp, shrewd, skillful, sober, sophisticated, sound, thorough, wary, well-advised, worldly-wise, clear-sighted, well-judged |
| Antonyms: | foolish, hasty, idiotic, injudicious, irrational, nonsensical, reckless, senseless, thoughtless, unwise |
| Main Entry: | leery |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | suspicious |
| Synonyms: | careful, cautious, chary, distrustful, doubting, dubious, on one's guard, shy, skeptical, uncertain, unsure, wary |
| Antonyms: | certain, sure, unwary |
| Main Entry: | methodical/methodic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | organized, precise |
| Synonyms: | analytical, businesslike, by the numbers, careful, cut-and-dried*, deliberate, efficient, exact, fixed, framed, logical, meticulous, neat, ordered, orderly, painstaking, planned, regular, scrupulous, systematic, tidy, together, all together, by the book, disciplined, in a groove, methodized, set-up, structured, well-regulated |
| Antonyms: | confused, disorderly, disorganized, imprecise, unmethodical/unmethodic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mindful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | attentive, aware |
| Synonyms: | alert, alive to, apprehensive, au courant, be up on, cagey, careful, cautious, chary, cognizant, conscientious, conscious, conversant, heedful, in the know, know all the answers, know ins and outs, knowing, knowledgeable, observant, observative, observing, on one's toes, on the ball*, on the job, on to, plugged in, regardful, respectful, sensible, solicitous, thoughtful, tuned in, vigilant, wary, watchful, with eyes peeled |
| Antonyms: | absent-minded, careless, heedless, inattentive, unaware |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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