Englishcareful
adjective
1 be careful when you go up the stairs:
cautious, heedful, alert, aware, attentive, watchful, vigilant, hypervigilant, wary, on guard, chary, circumspect, prudent, mindful, guarded;
unhurried, measured, deliberate;
informal leery, cagey.
▷antonyms careless.
3 his mother had always been careful with money:
prudent, thrifty, economical, economic, economizing, sparing, frugal, scrimping, abstemious, canny, sensible, cautious;
miserlypenny-pinching, parsimonious;
British mean;
informal stingy.
▷antonyms extravagant.
4 a careful driver | a careful consideration of the facts:
attentive, conscientious, painstaking, meticulous, diligent, assiduous, sedulous, scrupulous, punctilious, fastidious, methodical, orderly, deliberate, judicious, perfectionist;
thorough, exhaustive, rigorous;
accurate, precise, correct, particular;
fussy, finicky;
British, informal pernickety;
North American, informal persnickety;
archaic nice, laborious.
▷antonyms inattentive.