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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Cautious \Cau"tious\, a. [Cf. L. cautus, fr. caver. See
     Caution.]
     Attentive to examine probable effects and consequences of
     acts with a view to avoid danger or misfortune; prudent;
     circumspect; wary; watchful; as, a cautious general.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Cautious feeling for another's pain.     --Byron.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Be swift to hear; but cautious of your tongue. --Watts.
  
     Syn: Wary; watchful; vigilant; prudent; circumspect;
          discreet; heedful; thoughtful; scrupulous; anxious;
          careful.
  
     Usage: Cautious, Wary, Circumspect. A man is cautious
            who realizes the constant possibility of danger; one
            may be wary, and yet bold and active; a man who is
            circumspect habitually examines things on every side
            in order to weigh and deliberate. It is necessary to
            be cautious at all times; to be wary in cases of
            extraordinary danger; to be circumspect in matters of
            peculiar delicacy and difficulty.
            [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Cautious \Cau"tious\, a. [Cf. L. cautus, fr. caver. See
     Caution.]
     Attentive to examine probable effects and consequences of
     acts with a view to avoid danger or misfortune; prudent;
     circumspect; wary; watchful; as, a cautious general.
  
           Cautious feeling for another's pain.     --Byron.
  
           Be swift to hear; but cautious of your tongue. --Watts.
  
     Syn: Wary; watchful; vigilant; prudent; circumspect;
          discreet; heedful; thoughtful; scrupulous; anxious;
          careful.
  
     Usage: Cautious, Wary, Circumspect. A man is cautious
            who realizes the constant possibility of danger; one
            may be wary, and yet bold and active; a man who is
            circumspect habitually examines things on every side
            in order to weigh and deliberate. It is necessary to
            be cautious at all times; to be wary in cases of
            extraordinary danger; to be circumspect in matters of
            peculiar delicacy and difficulty.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  cautious
       adj 1: showing careful forethought; "reserved and cautious; never
              making swift decisions"; "a cautious driver" [ant: incautious]
       2: avoiding excess; "a conservative estimate" [syn: conservative]
       3: cautious in attitude and careful in actions; prudent; "a
          cautious answer"; "very cautious about believing
          everything she was told"
       4: unwilling to take risks
       n : people who are fearful and cautious; "whitewater rafting is
           not for the timid" [syn: timid] [ant: brave]

From Greek Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-el-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  cautious
     Αγγλικά a.
     προσεκτικός

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  cautious
     a.
     Using or exercising caution; careful; tentative

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  cautious
     a.
     Using or exercising caution; careful; tentative

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  cautious
     a.
     Using or exercising caution; careful; tentative

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  cautious
     a.
     Using or exercising caution; careful; tentative

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  cautious
     Englanti a.
     varovainen

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  cautious
     Engelska a.
     försiktig

From English-Afrikaans FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-afr ]

  cautious /kˈɔːʃəs/
  behoedsaam, beleidvol, versigtig

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Cautious /kˈɔːʃəs/
  حذر

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-bul ]

  cautious //ˈkɔːʃəs// 
  внима́телен, предпазли́в
  careful

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  cautious /kˈɔːʃəs/ 
  obezřetný

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  cautious /kˈɔːʃəs/
  opatrný

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  cautious /kˈɔːʃəs/
  obezřelý

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  cautious /kˈɔːʃəs/
  behutsam, bedacht, zurückhaltend 

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  cautious /kˈɔːʃəs/
  verhalten, gedämpft 

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  cautious /kˈɔːʃəs/
  vorsichtig, achtsam, behutsam 
   see: more cautious, most cautious
  

From English - Modern Greek XDXF/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.1.1 :   [ freedict:eng-ell ]

  cautious /kˈɔːʃəs/
  
  επιφυλακτικός, εφεκτικός

From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-fin ]

  cautious //ˈkɔːʃəs// 
  varovainen
  careful

From English-French FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-fra ]

  cautious /kɔːʃəs/
  prudent

From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-hin ]

  cautious /kˈɔːʃəs/ 
  1. सावधान
        "Be cautious in spending money!"

From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 :   [ freedict:eng-hrv ]

  cautious /kˈɔːʃəs/
  obazriv, oprezan, pažljiv

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:eng-hun ]

  cautious /kˈɔːʃəs/
  óvatos

From English-Bahasa Indonesia FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-ind ]

  cautious //ˈkɔːʃəs// 
  waspada
  careful

From English-Italian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.2 :   [ freedict:eng-ita ]

  cautious /kˈɔːʃəs/
  cauto

From English-日本語 (にほんご) FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-jpn ]

  cautious //ˈkɔːʃəs// 
  慎重
  careful

From English-Latin FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.2 :   [ freedict:eng-lat ]

  cautious /kɔːʃəs/
  cautus

From English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-pol ]

  cautious /ˈkɔ:ʃəs/ 
    ostrożny

From English-Portuguese FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-por ]

  cautious /kɔːʃəs/
  1. cauto
  2. prudente

From English-Spanish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.1 :   [ freedict:eng-spa ]

  cautious /kɔːʃəs/
  1. circunspecto, precavido, prudente

From English-Svenska FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-swe ]

  cautious //ˈkɔːʃəs// 
  försiktig, aktsam, varlig, varsam
  careful

From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-tur ]

  cautious /kˈɔːʃəs/
  1. ihtiyatlı, tedbirli, sakıngan, dikkatli. cautiously  ihtiyatla cautiousness  ihtiyatlılık.

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/ˈkɔʃəs/

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  133 Moby Thesaurus words for "cautious":
     alert, ambling, attentive, cagey, calculating, canny, careful,
     chary, circumspect, claudicant, considerate, cozy, crawling,
     creeping, creeping like snail, curious, deliberate, demurring,
     diffident, discreet, disinclined to believe, disposed to doubt,
     easy, expedient, faltering, flagging, foot-dragging, foresighted,
     forethoughtful, gentle, gingerly, gradual, guarded, halting,
     hard of belief, heedful, hesitant, hesitating, hobbled, hobbling,
     idle, impervious to persuasion, inconvincible, incredulous,
     indolent, jibbing, judicious, languid, languorous, lazy,
     leaving out nothing, leery, leisurely, limping, loving, lumbering,
     mindful, moderate, noncommittal, on guard,
     overlooking no possibility, pawky, poking, poky, politic,
     precautious, provident, prudent, regardful, relaxed, reluctant,
     safe, sauntering, scheming, scrupling, shilly-shallying, shrewd,
     shuffling, shy of belief, skeptical, slack, slothful, slow,
     slow as death, slow as molasses, slow as slow, slow to act,
     slow-crawling, slow-foot, slow-going, slow-legged, slow-moving,
     slow-paced, slow-poky, slow-running, slow-sailing, slow-stepped,
     sluggish, snail-paced, snaillike, solicitous, staggering, sticking,
     stickling, straining, strolling, suspecting, suspicious, tender,
     tentative, thorough, thoughtful, timid, toddling, tortoiselike,
     tottering, trudging, turtlelike, unadventurous, uncommunicative,
     unconvincible, uncredulous, undaring, unenterprising, unhurried,
     unpersuadable, unpersuasible, unprecipitate, unwilling to accept,
     vigilant, waddling, wary, watchful
  
  

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  a. 谨慎的,小心的;

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     a. 谨慎的,小心的

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