Definition of careful

"careful" in the adjective sense

1. careful

exercising caution or showing care or attention

"they were careful when crossing the busy street"

"be careful to keep her shoes clean"

"did very careful research"

"careful art restorers"

"careful of the rights of others"

"careful about one's behavior"

2. careful, heedful

cautiously attentive

"careful of her feelings"

"heedful of his father's advice"

3. careful, deliberate, measured

unhurried and with care and dignity

"walking at the same measured pace"

"with all deliberate speed"

4. careful

full of cares or anxiety

"Thou art careful and troubled about many things"-Luke 10.41

5. careful, thrifty

mindful of the future in spending money

"careful with money"

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Quotations for careful

The careful pilot of my proper woe. [ Byron, Epistle to Augusta ]

Quick landlords make careful tenants. [ Proverb ]

The careful insect 'midst his works I view,
Now from the flowers exhaust the fragrant dew.
With golden treasures load his little thighs,
And steer his distant journey through the skies. [ Gay ]

A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

Be as careful of the books you read as of the company you keep. [ Paxton Hood ]

We should be careful what books we put into the hands of children. [ C. Buck ]

We should be careful that our benevolence does not exceed our means. [ Cicero ]

We must be careful that the bond of wedlock does not become bondage. [ Mrs. Jameson ]

Winter does not work only on a broad scale; he is careful in trifles. [ Alexander Smith ]

The most careful reasoning characters are very often the most easily abashed. [ Mme. de Stael ]

Be more careful to keep the doors of your heart shut than the doors of your house. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Nor, as a faithful translator, should you be careful to render the original word for word. [ Horace ]

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children. [ William Penn ]

Women should be careful of their conduct, for appearances sometimes injure them as much as faults. [ Abbi Girard ]

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going because you might not get there. [ Yogi Berra ]

We should be as careful of our words as of our actions, and as far from speaking ill as from doing ill. [ Cicero ]

A bond is necessary to complete our being, only we must be careful that the bond does not become bondage. [ Mrs. Jameson ]

A blemish may be removed from a diamond by careful polishing, but evil words once spoken cannot be effaced. [ Confucius ]

Women should be doubly careful of their conduct, since appearances often injure them as much as real faults. [ Abbe Girard ]

We may neglect the wrongs which we receive, but be careful to rectify those which we are the cause of to others. [ Dewey ]

The careful reader of a few good newspapers can learn more in a year than most scholars do in their great libraries. [ F. B. Sanborn ]

Friends should be very delicate and careful in administering pity as medicine, when enemies use the same article as poison. [ J. F. Boyes ]

It is not how many books thou hast, but how good; careful reading profiteth, while that which is full of variety delighteth. [ Seneca ]

Good poetry has a lot in common with good copy. A poem evokes vivid images and strong emotions through very careful word choice. [ Kathy Kleidermacher, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Copywriter's Words And Phrases ]

O, grief hath changed me since you saw me last; and careful hours, with Time's deformed hand, have written strange defeatures in my face! [ William Shakespeare ]

For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. We ought to be careful indeed what we say. [ Confucius ]

Be as careful of the books you read as of the company you keep, for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter. [ Paxton Hood ]

People who are jealous, or particularly careful of their own rights and dignity, always find enough of those who do not care for either to keep them continually uncomfortable. [ Barnes ]

He said - and his observation was just - that a man on whom heaven hath bestowed a beautiful wife should be as cautious of the men he brings home to his house as careful of observing the female friends with whom his spouse converses abroad. [ Cervantes ]

If thy friends be of better quality than thyself, thou mayest be sure of two things: the first, that they will be more careful to keep thy counsel, because they have more to lose than thou hast; the second, they will esteem thee for thyself, and not for that which thou dost possess. [ Sir W. Raleigh ]

At almost every step in life we meet with young men from whom we anticipate wonderful things, but of whom, after careful inquiry, we never hear another word. Like certain chintzes, calicoes, and ginghams, they show finely on their first newness, but cannot stand the sun and rain, and assume a very sober aspect after washing day. [ Hawthorne ]

Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. I wasn't myself, I started poor. I hadn't a single moral. There is hardly a man in this house that is poorer than I was then. Yes, I started like that - the world before me, not a moral in the slot. Not even an insurance moral. I can remember the first one I ever got. I can remember the landscape, the weather, the - I can remember how everything looked. It was an old moral, an old second-hand moral, all out of repair, and didn't fit, anyway. But if you are careful with a thing like that, and keep it in a dry place, and save it for processions, and Chautauquas, and World's Fairs, and so on, and disinfect it now and then, and give it a fresh coat of whitewash once in a while, you will be surprised to see how well she will last and how long she will keep sweet, or at least inoffensive. When I got that mouldy old moral, she had stopped growing, because she hadn't any exercise; but I worked her hard, I worked her Sundays and all. Under this cultivation she waxed in might and stature beyond belief, and served me well and was my pride and joy for sixty-three years; then she got to associating with insurance presidents, and lost flesh and character, and was a sorrow to look at and no longer competent for business. She was a great loss to me. Yet not all loss. I sold her - ah, pathetic skeleton, as she was - I sold her to Leopold, the pirate King of Belgium; he sold her to our Metropolitan Museum, and it was very glad to get her, for without a rag on, she stands 57 feet long and 16 feet high, and they think she's a brontosaur. Well, she looks it. They believe it will take nineteen geological periods to breed her match. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

careful in Scrabble®

The word careful is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 12

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters careful:

CAREFUL
(98 = 48 + 50)
CAREFUL
(98 = 48 + 50)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word careful

CAREFUL
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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In careful

CAREFUL
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CAREFUL
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careful in Words With Friends™

The word careful is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 15

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters careful:

CAREFUL
(116 = 81 + 35)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

careful

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word careful

CAREFUL
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In careful

CAREFUL
(116 = 81 + 35)
CAREFUL
(110 = 75 + 35)
CAREFUL
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Words within the letters of careful

2 letter words in careful (6 words)

3 letter words in careful (17 words)

5 letter words in careful (8 words)

6 letter words in careful (1 word)

7 letter words in careful (1 word)

careful + 1 blank (3 words)

Words containing the sequence careful

Words that start with careful (6 words)

Words with careful in them (3 words)

Words that end with careful (4 words)

Word Growth involving careful

Shorter words in careful

ar are care

re are care

ar car care

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Longer words containing careful

carefuller

carefullest

carefully uncarefully

carefulness carefulnesses

carefulness uncarefulness

overcareful

ultracareful

uncareful uncarefully

uncareful uncarefulness