English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
caution (“from Latin cautus”) + -ous
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
cautious (comparative more cautious, superlative most cautious)
- Using or exercising caution; careful; tentative
He took a few cautious steps toward the cave.
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Translations[edit]
careful
- Albanian: i kujdesshëm (sq)
- Arabic: وَرِع (wariʕ), حَذِر (ar) (ḥaḏir), مُتَحَوِّط (mutaḥawwiṭ)
- Armenian: զգուշավոր (hy) (zgušavor)
- Azerbaijani: ehtiyatlı
- Bashkir: һаҡ (haq)
- Belarusian: асцяро́жны (ascjaróžny)
- Bengali: সতর্ক (bn) (śotork), সাবধান (bn) (śabodhan)
- Bulgarian: внима́телен (bg) (vnimátelen), предпазли́в (bg) (predpazlív)
- Burmese: သတိထား (my) (sa.ti.hta:)
- Catalan: cautelós, caut (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 謹慎／谨慎 (zh) (jǐnshèn), 慎重 (zh) (shènzhòng)
- Czech: opatrný (cs), obezřetný (cs)
- Danish: varsom (da), forsigtig
- Dutch: voorzichtig (nl)
- Estonian: ettevaatlik
- Finnish: varovainen (fi)
- French: prudent (fr)
- Georgian: ფრთხილი (prtxili)
- German: vorsichtig (de), zaghaft (de), behutsam (de)
- Greek:
- Ancient: ἐπιμελής (epimelḗs), ἥσυχος (hḗsukhos)
- Gujarati: સાવધાન (sāvdhān)
- Hebrew: זָהִיר (zahír)
- Hindi: सावधान (hi) (sāvdhān), सतर्क (hi) (satark)
- Hungarian: óvatos (hu)
- Indonesian: waspada (id)
- Interlingua: caute
- Irish: aireach, faichilleach
- Italian: cauto (it), ritenuto (it), oculato (it)
- Japanese: 慎重な (ja) (しんちょうな, shinchō na)
- Kazakh: сақ (saq), абай (abai)
- Khmer: ប្រយ័ត្ន (km) (prɑyat)
- Korean: 조심스럽다 (ko) (josimseureopda), 신중하다 (ko) (sinjunghada)
- Kyrgyz: сак (ky) (sak)
- Lao: ລະມັດລະວັງ (la mat la wang), ຮອບຄອບ (hǭp khǭp), ຄ່ຽມ (khīam), ລະມັດ (la mat), ລະວັງ (la wang), ລະມັດ (la mat)
- Latin: cautus (la) m
- Latvian: piesardzīgs
- Lithuanian: atsargus (lt), apdairus
- Macedonian: пре́тпазлив (prétpazliv), внима́телен (vnimátelen)
- Maori: mohito, tūpato
- Marathi: सावध (sāvadh)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: болгоомжтой (bolgoomžtoj), хашир (mn) (xašir)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: forsiktig
- Persian: محتاط (fa) (mohtât)
- Polish: ostrożny (pl)
- Portuguese: cuidadoso (pt), cauteloso (pt)
- Romanian: precaut (ro)
- Russian: осторо́жный (ru) (ostoróžnyj), внима́тельный (ru) (vnimátelʹnyj), осмотри́тельный (ru) (osmotrítelʹnyj)
- Scottish Gaelic: cùramach
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: о̏пре̄зан, бу́дан, па̀жљив
- Roman: ȍprēzan (sh), búdan (sh), pàžljiv (sh)
- Slovak: opatrný, obozretný
- Slovene: previden
- Spanish: cauto (es), cauteloso (es), precavido (es), cuidadoso (es)
- Swedish: försiktig (sv), varsam (sv), varlig (sv), aktsam (sv)
- Tajik: боэҳтиёт (boehtiyot), эҳтиёткор (ehtiyotkor)
- Tatar: сак (tt) (saq)
- Thai: ระวัง (th) (rá-wang), รอบคอบ (th) (rɔ̂ɔp-kɔ̂ɔp), สุขุม (th) (sù-kǔm), ระมัดระวัง (th) (rá-mát-rá-wang)
- Tocharian B: imassu
- Turkish: dikkatli (tr), ihtiyatlı (tr)
- Turkmen: aýawly (tk)
- Ukrainian: обере́жний (oberéžnyj), оба́чний (obáčnyj)
- Urdu: ساودھان (sāvdhān), سترک (satark), محتاط (muhtāt)
- Uyghur: ئېھتىياتچان (ëhtiyatchan)
- Uzbek: ehtiyotkor (uz)
- Vietnamese: cẩn trọng (vi), cẩn thận (vi)
- Volapük: prüdik (vo)
- Winnebago: hirakikaraxjį
- Yiddish: פֿאָרזיכטיק (forzikhtik)
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