carefully
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
careful/ˈkeəfl/
▶adjective
- 1 taking care to avoid mishap or harm; cautious.
■ (careful of/about) protective of.
■ (careful with) prudent in the use of.
- 2 done with or showing thought and attention.
– derivatives
carefully adverb,
carefulness noun.
carefully adverb,
carefulness noun.
'carefully' also found in these Oxford entries:
blue riband
- careful
- close
- coax
- comb
- consider
- creep
- deliberate
- ease
- edge
- elaborate
- excavate
- go
- hand-pick
- ill-conceived
- inch
- just
- kid
- lay
- manoeuvre
- meditate
- neat
- nota bene
- nurse
- pause
- peruse
- pick
- pin
- ponder
- project
- read
- recherché
- reflect
- scope
- search
- select
- selective
- set piece
- soft-shoe
- stage-manage
- step
- sting
- survey
- tactic
- think
- tiptoe
- treasure
- unpick
- unthrifty
- vet
