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cau·tious·ly

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Princeton's WordNet1.5 / 2 votes

  1. cautiously, carefullyadverb

    as if with kid gloves; with caution or prudence or tact

    "she ventured cautiously downstairs"; "they handled the incident with kid gloves"

    Synonyms:
    carefully, guardedly, conservatively

    Antonyms:
    carelessly, incautiously

  2. conservatively, cautiously, guardedlyadverb

    in a conservative manner

    "we estimated the number of demonstrators conservatively at 200,000."

    Synonyms:
    carefully, guardedly, conservatively

    Antonyms:
    incautiously, carelessly

Editors Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

  1. tentatively

    subject to further confirmation; not definitely, or to do something in a way that lacks confidence; hesitantly

    Submitted by anonymous on November 17, 2019  
  2. testingly

    with care or caution

    Submitted by rinat on August 14, 2019  

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#19697wisely
#28086cautiously
#53620conservatively
#69863prudently
#74704gingerly
#91461warily
#231588guardedly

How to use cautiously in a sentence?

  1. Isa Saharkhiz:

    Ayatollah Khamenei's silence is calculated. He is weighing up the situation, he is standing cautiously somewhere in the middle, so no one can interpret his words as approval or disapproval.

  2. Elijah Cummings:

    I need to study the transcripts and see what we have. Keep in mind I want to proceed very cautiously.

  3. Huang Shengmin:

    Everyone is cautiously optimistic about next year's economic situation, so CCTV downplayed the auction.

  4. Pavitra Roychoudhury:

    I've been cautiously optimistic about BA.2 because of the trends that it's not been as exponential a rise in cases, like we saw when Omicron first emerged.

  5. Scott Allen:

    To some extent I'm still nervous. I think we live in a time where sort of normal decency and normal rules don't seem to apply, and people can be quite vicious, so I'm not cavalier about our situation. ... We try to proceed at each step cautiously while at the same time doing what we have to do.


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