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| Main Entry: | cautious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | careful, guarded |
| Synonyms: | alert, all ears, cagey, calculating, chary, circumspect, considerate, discreet, forethoughtful, gingerly, hedging one's bets, heedful, judicious, keeping on one's toes, leery, on the lookout, playing it cool, playing safe, politic, provident, prudent, pussyfoot*, safe, shrewd, taking it easy, taking it slow, tentative, thinking twice, vigilant, walking on eggs, wary, watchful, watching one's step, watching out, with one's eyes peeled |
| Antonyms: | careless, hasty, heedless, imprudent, incautious, rash, thoughtless, uncareful, unguarded, unobservant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | 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: | distrustful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disbelieving |
| Synonyms: | cagey, cautious, chary, cynical, doubtful, doubting, dubious, fearful, jealous, leery, skeptical, suspicious, uneasy, uptight, wary, been hit before, mistrustful |
| Antonyms: | assured, believing, certain, faithful, trusting, unsuspecting, trustful |
| Main Entry: | far-sighted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | looking ahead wisely |
| Synonyms: | acute, canny, cautious, clairvoyant, discerning, judicious, levelheaded, perceptive, politic, prescient, provident, prudent, sagacious, sage, shrewd, well-balanced, wise, commonsensical, cool-headed |
| Antonyms: | incautious, rash, shortsighted, unthinking, unwise, uncareful |
| Main Entry: | furtive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sneaky, secretive |
| Synonyms: | artful, calculating, cautious, circumspect, clandestine, cloaked, covert, crafty*, creepy*, cunning, disguised, elusive, evasive, foxy, hidden, hush-hush*, insidious, masked, scheming, shifty*, sly, stealthy, surreptitious, tricky*, under wraps*, undercover, underhand, underhanded, wily, conspiratorial, guileful, skulking, slinking, sub-rosa, under-the-table |
| Antonyms: | aboveboard, forthright, honest, open, truthful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gingerly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | careful |
| Synonyms: | calculating, cautious, chary, circumspect, considerate, dainty, delicate, discreet, fastidious, guarded, hesitant, reluctant, safe, squeamish, suspicious, timid, wary |
| Antonyms: | careless, rash, rough, uncareful, uncautious |
| 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: | introverted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | reserved |
| Synonyms: | bashful, cautious, cold*, collected, cool, demure, introspective, modest, quiet, reclusive, restrained, secretive, shy, soft-spoken, solitary, standoffish, uncommunicative, withdrawn, close-mouthed, offish |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
| Notes: | judicial means 'pertaining to judges or the courts' and judicious means 'prudent, carefully considered'; judicial refers to judgment as it is exercised by the court, judicious to judgment as exercised by an individual |
| 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: | meticulous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | detailed, perfectionist |
| Synonyms: | accurate, cautious, conscientious, conscionable, crossing the t's, dotting the i's, exact, fastidious, fussy, heedful, microscopic, nitpicking*, painstaking, particular, persnickety*, picky, precise, punctilious, punctual, scrupulous, stickling, strict, thorough |
| Antonyms: | careless, messy, sloppy, undetailed |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | middle-of-the-road |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | moderate |
| Synonyms: | balanced, cautious, conservative, even, impartial, indifferent, inexpensive, mild, modest, neutral, noncommittal, nonpartisan, on the fence*, reasonable, straight, compromising, controlled, disciplined, midway, not excessive |
* = 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
| Main Entry: | noncommittal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unwilling to decide |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, careful, cautious, circumspect, discreet, equivocal, evasive, guarded, hush-hush*, indefinite, judicious, middle-of-the-road*, neutral, politic, reserved, restrained, tactful, tentative, vague, wary, buttoned up, clammed up, constrained, even-steven, incommunicable, middle-ground, on-the-fence, temporizing, unrevealing, zipped |
| Antonyms: | decisive, definite, willing, committal, judgemental |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | on guard |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | defensive |
| Synonyms: | alert, cautious, expectant, preservative, preventive, vigilant, watchful, averting, checking, defending, guarding, protecting, safeguarding, warding off, withstanding |
| Main Entry: | provident |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | careful, frugal |
| Synonyms: | canny, cautious, discreet, economical, expedient, far-sighted, judicious, penny-pinching*, politic, prepared, prudent, sagacious, saving, shrewd, sparing, thrifty, tight, vigilant, wise, foresighted, unwasteful, well-prepared |
| Antonyms: | careless, improvident, spendthrift, wasteful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | prudent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wise, sensible in action and thought |
| Synonyms: | advisable, canny, careful, cautious, circumspect, discerning, discreet, economical, far-sighted, frugal, hedging one's bets, judgmatic, judicious, leery, playing safe, politic, provident, reasonable, sagacious, sage, sane, sapient, shrewd, sound, sparing, tactical, thinking twice, thrifty, vigilant, wary |
| Antonyms: | careless, imprudent, incautious, unwise |
| Main Entry: | reluctant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unenthusiastic, unwilling |
| Synonyms: | afraid, averse, backward, calculating, cautious, chary, circumspect, diffident, discouraged, disinclined, hesitant, hesitating, indisposed, involuntary, laggard, loath, opposed, queasy, recalcitrant, remiss, shy, slack, slow, squeamish, tardy, uncertain, wary, demurring, disheartened, grudging, hanging back, uneager |
| Antonyms: | anxious, eager, enthusiastic, ready, willing |
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