cautious

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔːʃəs/

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• Rhymes: -ɔːʃəs

Adjective

cautious (comparative more cautious, superlative most cautious)

1. careful; using or exercising caution; tentative

   He took a few cautious steps out the door.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:cautious

Antonyms

• neglecting
• careless

Derived terms

Terms derived from cautious

• cautiously
• cautiousness
• hypercautious
• incautious

• overcautious
• supercautious
• ultracautious
• uncautious

Translations

careful

• Arabic: وَرِع‎‎ (wariʿ), حَذِر‎‎ (ar) (ḥaḏir)
• Bengali: সতর্ক (sôtôrkô), সাবধান (sābdhān)
• Bulgarian: внимателен (bg) (vnimátelen), предпазлив (bg) (predpazlív)
• Catalan: cautelós, caut
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 謹慎 (zh), 谨慎 (zh) (jǐnshèn), 慎重 (zh) (shènzhòng)

• Czech: opatrný m
• Danish: varsom, forsigtig
• Dutch: voorzichtig (nl)
• Estonian: ettevaatlik
• Finnish: varovainen (fi)
• French: prudent (fr)
• German: vorsichtig (de), zaghaft (de), behutsam (de)
• Gujarati: સાવધાન (sāvdhān)
• Hindi: सावधान (hi) (sāvdhān), सतर्क (hi) (satark)
• Hungarian: óvatos (hu)
• 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)
• Latin: cautus m
• Maori: mohito, tūpato
• Marathi: सावध (sāvadh)
• Persian: محتاط‎‎ (fa) (mohtât)
• Polish: ostrożny (pl) m
• Portuguese: cuidadoso (pt), cauteloso (pt)
• Russian: осторо́жный (ru) (ostoróžnyj), внима́тельный (ru) (vnimátelʹnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: cùramach
• Serbo-Croatian: oprezan (sh), budan (sh), pažljiv (sh)
• Spanish: cauto (es), cauteloso (es)
• Urdu: ساودھان‎‎ (sāvdhān), سترک‎‎ (satark)
• Volapük: prüdik (vo)
• Winnebago: hirakikaraxjį