cautiously

English

Etymology

cautious +‎ -ly

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔːʃəsli/

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• (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑʃəsli/
• Hyphenation: cau‧tious‧ly

Adverb

cautiously (comparative more cautiously, superlative most cautiously)

1. In a cautious manner.
   • 1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 147:

     He said cautiously, "I do not think it right, Imperator."

Antonyms

• incautiously

Translations

in a cautious manner

• Armenian: զգուշորեն (hy) (zgušoren)
• Azerbaijani: ehityatlı, ehtiyatla
• Catalan: cautelosament (ca)
• Czech: opatrně (cs)
• Dutch: behoedzaam (nl), omzichtig (nl)
• Finnish: varovasti (fi)
• French: précautionneusement (fr)
• German: vorsichtig (de)
• Hungarian: óvatosan (hu)
• Italian: cautamente (it), prudentemente (it)
• Latin: cautim, tectē (la), pedetemptim
• Macedonian: претпазливо (pretpazlivo)
• Navajo: tʼáá tiʼída, tʼáá tłehee
• Plautdietsch: behutsom
• Polish: ostrożnie (pl)
• Portuguese: cuidadosamente (pt)
• Romanian: prudent (ro), cu prudență, prevăzător (ro), cu prevedere, precaut (ro), cu precauție
• Russian: осторо́жно (ru) (ostoróžno), аккура́тно (ru) (akkurátno)
• Serbo-Croatian: oprezno (sh), опрезно
• Spanish: precavidamente