English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Middle English carfulli, carefulliche, from Old English carfullīċe (“carefully, diligently”), equivalent to careful + -ly.
Pronunciation [edit]
Adverb [edit]
carefully (comparative more carefully, superlative most carefully)
- (obsolete) Sorrowfully.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.8:
- there was she faine / To call them all in order to her ayde, / And them conjure, upon eternall paine, / To counsell her, so carefully dismayd, / How she might heale her sonne […].
- With care; attentively, circumspectly.
- As he was a politician, he discussed all subjects carefully, not offending anyone.
- He carefully studied the papers, while planning his next move.
- He carefully avoided the subject all evening.
Translations [edit]
in a careful manner
- Arabic: بعناية (ar) (bi-ʿināya)
- Armenian: զգույշ (hy) (zguyš), կամաց (hy) (kamac’)
- Basque: kontuz (eu), arretaz (eu)
- Belarusian: асцярожна (be) (ascjaróžna)
- Bulgarian: грижливо (bg) (grižlivo), внимателно (bg) (vnimatelno)
- Burmese: please add this translation if you can
- Catalan: acuradament (ca)
- Cherokee: please add this translation if you can
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 小心地 (cmn) (xiǎoxīn de)
- Czech: opatrně (cs)
- Danish: please add this translation if you can
- Dutch: voorzichtig (nl)
- Esperanto: zorgeme (eo), zorge (eo)
- Estonian: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: varovasti (fi), varovaisesti (fi)
- French: soigneusement (fr)
- German: vorsichtig (de)
- Irish: go haireach (ga)
- Italian: minuziosamente (it), accuratamente (it), meticolosamente (it), puntigliosamente (it), attentamente (it)
- Japanese: じっくり (ja) (jikkuri), 慎重に (ja) (しんちょうに, shinchōni)
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- Khmer: please add this translation if you can
- Korean: 주의하여 (ko) (juuihayeo), 조심스럽게 (ko) (josimseureopge), 신중히 (ko) (sinjunghi)
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: به وردی (ku) (be wirdî), به هێواشی (ku)
- Latin: curiose (la), caute (la)
- Polish: ostrożnie (pl)
- Portuguese: cuidadosamente (pt), cautelosamente (pt)
- Romanian: please add this translation if you can
- Russian: осторожно (ru) (ostoróžno), аккуратно (ru) (akkurátno), внимательно (ru) (vnimátelʹno)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: brìžljivo (sh), pòmnjivo (sh), pȏmno (sh)
- Roman: brìžljivo (sh), pòmnjivo (sh), pȏmno (sh)
- Spanish: cuidadosamente (es), a conciencia (es), minuciosamente (es)
- Swahili: taratibu (sw)
- Swedish: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: please add this translation if you can
- Ukrainian: обережно (uk) (oberéžno)
- Volapük: please add this translation if you can
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