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Synonyms, Thesaurus & Antonyms of 'careful'

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1. (adj) careful
exercising caution or showing care or attention
Synonyms: deliberate, thrifty, heedful, measured
Antonyms: mindless, heedless, hurried, haphazard, casual, reckless, forgetful, careless, slipshod, slapdash, sloppy, improvident, untroubled, incautious, passing(a), cursory, offhand, offhanded, perfunctory, unmindful

2. (adj) careful, heedful
cautiously attentive
Synonyms: thoughtful, thrifty, paying attention, careful, advertent, attentive, heedful, measured, deliberate
Antonyms: sloppy, hurried, passing(a), reckless, cursory, careless, incautious, slapdash, untroubled, perfunctory, casual, slipshod, improvident, forgetful, unmindful, offhanded, heedless, mindless, haphazard, offhand

3. (adj) careful, deliberate, measured
unhurried and with care and dignity
Synonyms: metric, thrifty, heedful, careful, mensurable, metrical, measured, deliberate, calculated, mensural
Antonyms: casual, incautious, slipshod, forgetful, perfunctory, offhanded, mindless, passing(a), slapdash, unmindful, hurried, reckless, careless, offhand, cursory, heedless, sloppy, untroubled, haphazard, improvident

4. (adj) careful
full of cares or anxiety
Synonyms: deliberate, thrifty, heedful, measured
Antonyms: reckless, offhand, unmindful, mindless, careless, improvident, cursory, forgetful, hurried, heedless, passing(a), casual, haphazard, incautious, offhanded, slipshod, untroubled, perfunctory, slapdash, sloppy

5. (adj) careful, thrifty
mindful of the future in spending money
Synonyms: deliberate, thrifty, heedful, measured, careful
Antonyms: forgetful, careless, mindless, passing(a), untroubled, improvident, incautious, perfunctory, unmindful, hurried, slipshod, haphazard, heedless, casual, offhanded, slapdash, offhand, cursory, sloppy, reckless

Synonyms, Thesaurus & Antonyms of 'careful'

English Synonyms and Antonyms

1. careful
Vigilant implies more sustained activity and more intelligent volition than alert; one may be habitually alert by reason of native quickness of perception and thought, or one may be momentarily
Synonyms: vigilant, alert, cautious, on the lookout, wary, awake, circumspect, sleepless, watchful, careful, on the alert, wakeful, wide-awake
Antonyms: careless, heedless, inconsiderate, oblivious, drowsy, inattentive, neglectful, thoughtless, dull, incautious, negligent, unwary

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