Synonyms for Careful:

• adj.

  •accurate (adjective)
  • severe,
  • de fined,
  • re gular,
  • un-erring,
  • more careful,
  • un-mistakable,
  • unerring,
  • most defined,
  • un erring,
  • more concrete,
  • dis criminative,
  • explicit,
  • on button,
  • more defined,
  • dis-criminative,
  • veracious,
  • on money,
  • more ultraprecise,
  • de-finite,
  • ultra-precise,
  • de tailed,
  • de-fined,
  • most ultraprecise,
  • on nose,
  • matter-of-fact,
  • on the money,
  • re-gular,
  • un mistakable,
  • ultra precise,
  • de finite,
  • ultraprecise,
  • de-tailed.
  •alert (adjective)
  • jazzed,
  • fast draw,
  • on job,
  • most jazzed,
  • quick,
  • wide awake,
  • fast on draw,
  • quickest,
  • more intelligent,
  • on ones toes,
  • on one toes,
  • observant,
  • fast the draw,
  • more jazzed,
  • on qui vive.
  •all (adjective)
  • careful,
  • heedful.
  •all-encompassing (adjective)
  • thorough.
  •anxious (adjective)
  • more bugged,
  • more spooked,
  • uneasy,
  • un-quietest,
  • up-tight,
  • un-easiest,
  • un quiet,
  • more hyper,
  • more clutched,
  • un glued,
  • worried sick,
  • dis tressed,
  • in tizzy,
  • un-easy,
  • most disquieted,
  • more dreading,
  • un easiest,
  • un easy,
  • more disquieted,
  • un-quiet,
  • most spooked,
  • sweating bullets,
  • dis-quieted,
  • wreckest,
  • over wrought,
  • more choked,
  • dis quieted,
  • more hacked,
  • most hyper,
  • up tight,
  • most bugged,
  • most clutched,
  • shot pieces,
  • un-glued,
  • most hacked,
  • fidgety,
  • most unglued,
  • more nervous,
  • un easier,
  • un quietest,
  • most choked,
  • in state,
  • most dreading,
  • troubled,
  • un-quieter,
  • taut,
  • more unglued,
  • dis-tressed,
  • un quieter,
  • un-easier,
  • more butterflies,
  • most butterflies.
  •attentive (adjective)
  • Scrutinizing,
  • attentive,
  • rapt,
  • responsible,
  • concerned,
  • sharp,
  • engrossed,
  • sedulous,
  • absorbed,
  • vigilant,
  • enraptured,
  • intent,
  • interested,
  • Concentrating,
  • fascinated,
  • Hearkening,
  • observing,
  • Considering,
  • entranced,
  • Immersed,
  • cautious.
  •businesslike (adjective)
  • well-ordered,
  • workaday,
  • disciplined.
  •cagey (adjective)
  • shrewdest.
  •calculating (adjective)
  • manipulative.
  •canny (adjective)
  • more nimble witted,
  • street smart,
  • more nimblewitted,
  • more streetwise,
  • most streetwise,
  • heppest,
  • most nimblewitted,
  • more acute,
  • quickwitted,
  • more nimble-witted,
  • foxy,
  • Worldlywise,
  • nimblewitted,
  • quick witted,
  • most nimble witted,
  • most nimble-witted,
  • nimble witted.
  •cautious (adjective)
  • wary.
  •cautious; painstaking (adjective)
  • choosy,
  • prim,
  • selfdisciplined,
  • punctilious,
  • solicitous,
  • shy,
  • rigorous,
  • playing safe,
  • fastidious,
  • meticulous,
  • finicky,
  • accurate.
  •circumspect (adjective)
  • diplomatic,
  • discriminatory,
  • politic,
  • discretionary,
  • considerate.
  •correct (adjective)
  • be-coming,
  • be coming,
  • de-cent,
  • de cent.
  •critical (adjective)
  • discriminating.
  •deliberate (adjective)
  • purposive,
  • prearranged,
  • coldblooded,
  • with forethought,
  • aforethought,
  • Prepense,
  • Schemed,
  • cut and dried,
  • Designful,
  • Predeterminate,
  • predesigned,
  • thought out,
  • done on purpose,
  • witting.
  •delicate (adjective)
  • finical,
  • more finicking,
  • re fined,
  • thin skinned,
  • most finicking,
  • thinskinned,
  • prudish.
  •diligent (adjective)
  • grindest,
  • more diligent,
  • un relenting,
  • un flagging,
  • steadfast,
  • un-tiring,
  • more persisting,
  • Operose,
  • most persisting,
  • un-flagging,
  • un tiring,
  • persistent,
  • more plugging,
  • most plugging,
  • un-relenting.
  •discreet (adjective)
  • Precautious,
  • like a clam,
  • on lookout,
  • not rash,
  • having foresight.
  •discriminating (adjective)
  • opinionated,
  • choicy.
  •elaborate (adjective)
  • ex tensive,
  • more embellished,
  • with all extras,
  • with the extras,
  • most embellished,
  • with the options,
  • many faceted,
  • most manyfaceted,
  • with extras,
  • most garnished,
  • more ornamented,
  • embellished,
  • over done,
  • most many faceted,
  • most decorated,
  • manyfaceted,
  • over worked,
  • most many-faceted,
  • more many-faceted,
  • with bells whistles,
  • more luxurious,
  • more many faceted,
  • most ornamented,
  • over-done,
  • more elaborate,
  • over-worked,
  • with all options,
  • with options,
  • with bells and whistles,
  • more garnished,
  • more decorated,
  • more manyfaceted.
  •exact (adjective)
  • bullseye,
  • bulls eye,
  • clearcut,
  • un-equivocal,
  • ex act,
  • un equivocal,
  • bull'seye,
  • bull eye,
  • ex-act,
  • bulleye,
  • bull-eye,
  • on numbers,
  • nailed down.
  •exacting (adjective)
  • ex acting,
  • by book,
  • more nit-picking,
  • un-sparing,
  • unsparing,
  • more nit picking,
  • stern,
  • most nit picking,
  • hyper critical,
  • hyper-critical,
  • nit picking,
  • un sparing,
  • most nit-picking,
  • ex-acting.
  •fastidious (adjective)
  • discerning,
  • epicurean,
  • picky,
  • perspicacious,
  • dainty,
  • Qualmish,
  • flawless,
  • demanding,
  • literal,
  • proper,
  • priggish,
  • critical,
  • hypercritical,
  • mincing,
  • squeamish.
  •frugal (adjective)
  • mingiest,
  • penny pinching,
  • pre-serving,
  • meager,
  • mingier,
  • more preserving,
  • most pennywise,
  • most scrimping,
  • more pennywise,
  • most preserving,
  • tightwad,
  • pre serving,
  • most conserving,
  • most penny-wise,
  • more niggardly,
  • penny wise,
  • un wasteful,
  • most tightwad,
  • most penny wise,
  • un-wasteful,
  • more conserving,
  • more unwasteful,
  • most unwasteful,
  • more tightwad,
  • more scrimping,
  • more penny wise,
  • most niggardly,
  • more penny-wise.
  •full-dress (adjective)
  • fulldress.
  •fussy (adjective)
  • more fuddyduddy,
  • over fastidious,
  • more overfastidious,
  • most fuddy duddy,
  • most conscionable,
  • more fuddy duddy,
  • fuddyduddy,
  • over-fastidious,
  • more picky picky,
  • more stickling,
  • most stickling,
  • more pickypicky,
  • most overfastidious,
  • most picky-picky,
  • more conscionable,
  • most fuddyduddy,
  • most fuddy-duddy,
  • most picky picky,
  • picky picky,
  • pickypicky,
  • more fuddy-duddy,
  • most pickypicky,
  • hard please,
  • fuddy duddy,
  • more picky-picky.
  •guarded (adjective)
  • over-cautious,
  • more overcautious,
  • most overcautious,
  • over careful,
  • most overcareful,
  • over cautious,
  • more overcareful.
  •judicious (adjective)
  • more clear-sighted,
  • far sighted,
  • more welljudged,
  • pro-found,
  • clear sighted,
  • judicial,
  • most well judged,
  • most welljudged,
  • pro-founder,
  • well judged,
  • most well-judged,
  • more clear sighted,
  • welladvised,
  • most clearsighted,
  • pro founder,
  • far-sighted,
  • well-judged,
  • pro found,
  • most clear sighted,
  • most clear-sighted,
  • more clearsighted,
  • welljudged,
  • more well-judged,
  • more well judged.
  •leery (adjective)
  • doubting.
  •measured (adjective)
  • timed.
  •methodic (adjective)
  • meth odic,
  • meth-odic.
  •methodical (adjective)
  • Methodic,
  • more grooved,
  • most grooved,
  • Systematical,
  • grooved.
  •methodical/methodic (adjective)
  • most wellregulated,
  • more methodic,
  • most methodized,
  • most set up,
  • more set up,
  • most setup,
  • more set-up,
  • most set-up,
  • in groove,
  • most structured,
  • more setup,
  • more well-regulated,
  • more wellregulated,
  • well regulated,
  • more well regulated,
  • most well regulated,
  • most methodic,
  • wellregulated,
  • more structured,
  • most well-regulated,
  • more methodized.
  •mindful (adjective)
  • in know,
  • know all answers,
  • more observative,
  • know answers,
  • on to,
  • know ins outs,
  • plugged in,
  • be upon,
  • most observative.
  •minute (adjective)
  • more particularized,
  • more clocklike,
  • most particularized,
  • most clocklike.
  •moderate (adjective)
  • pacific,
  • abstinent,
  • low key,
  • mid-way,
  • not excessive,
  • non-partisan,
  • peaceable.
  •motherly (adjective)
  • more caretaking,
  • most caretaking,
  • most nurturing,
  • more nurturing,
  • maternal.
  •nice (adjective)
  • well bred,
  • be-fitting,
  • more hairsplitting,
  • most hairsplitting,
  • well-bred,
  • wellbred.
  •noncommittal (adjective)
  • even steven,
  • even-steven,
  • non-committal,
  • buttoned up,
  • clammed up,
  • Middle-ground,
  • on-the-fence,
  • unrevealing.
  •on one's guard (adjective)
  • upon one's guard.
  •on the ball (adjective)
  • on ball,
  • on stick.
  •on time (adjective)
  • punctual.
  •open-eyed (adjective)
  • open-eyed,
  • openeyed.
  •orderly (adjective)
  • to rights,
  • neat as button,
  • in shape,
  • in good shape,
  • in apple-pie order,
  • uncluttered,
  • neat as pin,
  • in order.
  •painstaking (adjective)
  • fussbudget,
  • hard-working.
  •protective (adjective)
  • more shielding,
  • most safeguarding,
  • safeguarding,
  • more insulating,
  • most insulating,
  • most guardian,
  • most covering,
  • more guardian,
  • most emergency,
  • most sheltering,
  • more safeguarding,
  • preservative,
  • most protecting,
  • most conservational,
  • more emergency,
  • more custodial,
  • most custodial,
  • more protecting,
  • most shielding,
  • more sheltering,
  • more conservational,
  • more covering.
  •prudent (adjective)
  • most judgmatic,
  • hedging one bets,
  • hedging ones bets,
  • more judgmatic,
  • tactical,
  • hedging bets.
  •punctual (adjective)
  • in good time,
  • on schedule,
  • re current,
  • re-current,
  • on dot,
  • under wire,
  • on the dot.
  •regardful (adjective)
  • most intentive,
  • more intentive,
  • most advertent,
  • most arrect,
  • more advertent,
  • more arrect.
  •reliable (adjective)
  • predictable,
  • high-principled,
  • there,
  • truehearted,
  • incorrupt,
  • True-hearted,
  • true-blue.
  •safe (adjective)
  • safest,
  • SAFER,
  • on safe side,
  • unadventurous.
  •sage (adjective)
  • fore-sighted,
  • fore sighted,
  • under-standing,
  • under standing.
  •saving (adjective)
  • more redemptory,
  • re deeming,
  • re-deeming,
  • most redemptory,
  • saving.
  •selective (adjective)
  • dis criminatory,
  • dis-criminatory.
  •solicitous (adjective)
  • more appetent,
  • most appetent,
  • most caring,
  • more caring,
  • raring.
  •studious (adjective)
  • well-informed.
  •suspicious (adjective)
  • in-credulous,
  • greeneyed,
  • un believing,
  • in credulous,
  • most suspecting,
  • most questioning,
  • more suspecting,
  • mistrustful,
  • not born yesterday the lookout,
  • more questioning,
  • green eyed,
  • un-believing,
  • not born yesterday lookout,
  • mis-trustful,
  • mis trustful,
  • not born yesterday on lookout.
  •thorough (adjective)
  • more thoroughly,
  • un mitigated,
  • un-mitigated,
  • most thoroughly,
  • in-grained.
  •thorough/thoroughgoing (adjective)
  • allembracing,
  • from z,
  • all way,
  • more whole-hog,
  • most whole hog,
  • all embracing,
  • more thorough,
  • allout,
  • all out,
  • most all embracing,
  • more all-embracing,
  • most allembracing,
  • more whole hog,
  • more slam bang,
  • most all-embracing,
  • most wholehog,
  • more wholehog,
  • all inclusive,
  • from a z,
  • most slam bang,
  • in-tensive,
  • from to z,
  • Slam-bang,
  • allinclusive,
  • wholehog,
  • more thoroughgoing,
  • more slambang,
  • in tensive,
  • more all embracing,
  • most whole-hog,
  • most slam-bang,
  • slambang,
  • soup nuts,
  • most slambang,
  • most thorough,
  • more slam-bang.
  •thoughtful (adjective)
  • un selfish,
  • co operative,
  • well thoughtout,
  • un-selfish.
  •thrifty (adjective)
  • scrimpier,
  • close fisted,
  • stealest,
  • scrimpiest.
  •unsleeping (adjective)
  • un sleeping,
  • un-sleeping.
  •veridical (adjective)
  • veridical.
  •vigilant (adjective)
  • ready,
  • prepared,
  • strict,
  • sharp-eyed.
  •wakeful (adjective)
  • on the alert,
  • Insomnious,
  • on alert,
  • unsleeping,
  • insomniac.
  •watchful (adjective)
  • see after,
  • not missing trick,
  • pre pared,
  • pre-pared,
  • more glued,
  • most glued.
  •wise (adjective)
  • more sensing,
  • most sensing,
  • most sophic,
  • more sophic,
  • wisest.

• n.

  •
  • cool,
  • conservative,
  • self-disciplined,
  • ing how the land lies,
  • chary,
  • apprehensive,
  • sparing,
  • Sure-footed,
  • keeping a nose to the wind,
  • leaving no margin for error,
  • stealthy,
  • taking measures,
  • making haste slowly,
  • solid,
  • going to great lengths,
  • assiduous,
  • calm,
  • overexact,
  • self-possessed,
  • sober,
  • farsighted,
  • putting the right foot forward,
  • religious,
  • hard-to-please.
  •
  • ungenerous,
  • Economies,
  • economic.
  •
  • forehanded,
  • gingerly.
  •
  • discrimination,
  • discretion,
  • haste,
  • wide-awake,
  • caution,
  • glide,
  • breezy,
  • profuse,
  • foresight,
  • forgetful,
  • slick,
  • squander,
  • sensitive,
  • faithful.
  •aware (noun)
  • aware.
  •blow-by-blow (noun)
  • blow-by-blow.
  •careful (noun)
  • measured,
  • elaborated,
  • narrow,
  • unhurried,
  • provident,
  • too-careful,
  • close,
  • certain,
  • scrupulous,
  • detailed,
  • conscientious,
  • thrifty,
  • sure.

• v.

  •discriminating (verb)
  • selective.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • precipitateness,
  • precipitancy,
  • mindfulness,
  • meticulousness,
  • forethoughtfulness,
  • recklessness,
  • economy drive,
  • parsimonious,
  • frugal,
  • risk-averse,
  • beware,
  • corky,
  • fastidiousness,
  • scrupulousness,
  • thoroughgoing,
  • slackness,
  • exhaustive,
  • wastefulness,
  • foresightedness,
  • perceptiveness,
  • remissness,
  • unheeding,
  • thrift,
  • temerariousness,
  • unconsidered,
  • hurriedness,
  • feckless,
  • precipitance,
  • incautiousness,
  • savvy,
  • Percipience,
  • foolhardiness,
  • Disregardful,
  • hastiness,
  • Sageness,
  • slipshod,
  • unobservant,
  • Percipiency,
  • precipitant,
  • superstitious,
  • stingy,
  • economical,
  • temerarious,
  • unthoughtful,
  • brashness,
  • Thoroughpaced,
  • punctiliousness,
  • organized,
  • penny-pinching,
  • tight-fisted,
  • ill-considered,
  • gingerliness,
  • Clear-sightedness,
  • probing,
  • forehandedness,
  • Unthrifty,
  • heedlessness,
  • laxness,
  • systematic,
  • white-glove,
  • thoroughness.
  •
  • wit,
  • serious,
  • slack,
  • smart,
  • gallant,
  • knowing.
  •
  • nose,
  • perceptive,
  • eye.
  •
  • watch,
  • complete,
  • pain,
  • slip,
  • airy,
  • care.
  •
  • slide,
  • tight,
  • full.
  •
  • mean.
  •careful
  • searching.
  •maternal
  • motherly.
  •obsessive
  • compulsive.
  •thorough
  • good.
  •urbane
  • tactful.

Paraphrases for Careful:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    meticulous, circumspect, scrupulous, thoughtful, wary, watchful, painstaking, diligent, conscientious, attentive, cautious.
  • Proper noun, singular
    cautious.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    attentive.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    rigorous, observant, conservative, precise, delicate, closer, serious, sensitive, considerate, strict, discreet, well-considered, hyperconservative, exact, timid, sensible, Conservativeness, responsive, careless, cautionary, keen, inaccurate, mature, stringent, restrained, methodical, elaborate, sophisticated, exhaustive, ripe, sure, proper, conscious, reticent, faithful, conscientiously, specific, distrustful, disciplined, anxious, neat, advisable, hesitant, care-giving, tentative.
  • Proper noun, singular
    districts.
  • Noun, plural
    considerations, precautions, minds, thoughts, cracks, Axes, whoops, Energies, women.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    detail.
  • Interjection
    watchout, brace.
  • Verb, past tense
    addressed, focussed, paid, Came, pointed, Brought.
  • Verb, non-3rd person singular present
    AM.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    judicious, deliberate.

Antonyms for Careful:

• adj.

  • all
    careless.
  • cautious; painstaking
    inaccurate, inconsiderate, negligent, heedless, rash, inexact, questionable, indiscreet, uncareful, foolish, loose, uncaring, unscrupulous, irrational, reckless, inattentive, lax, incautious, unwise, false, thoughtless, idiotic, unconcerned.
  • Other antonyms:
    hurried, halfhearted, imprudent, undiscriminating, dull, apathetic, lackadaisical, oblivious, unguarded, unintentional, mindless, venturesome, unplanned, injudicious, undemanding, asleep, drowsy, regardless, inadvertent, indifferent, impetuous, unsafe, improvident, imprecise.