CIRCUMSPECTIVE

  

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CIRCUMSPECTIVE

Definition: CIRCUMSPECTIVE

CIRCUMSPECTIVE

Adjective

1. Looking around every way; cautious; careful of consequences; watchful of danger.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "CIRCUMSPECTIVE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1734. (references)


Modern Translation: CIRCUMSPECTIVE

Language Translations for "CIRCUMSPECTIVE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i matur (abstinent, calculating, canny, careful, cautious, chary, chaste, circumlocutory, circumspect, conservative, deliberate, discreet, forehanded, gingerly, judicious, moderate, provident, prudent, reasonable, sober, staid, thoughtful, wary, well advised, well balanced), i kujdesshëm (accurate, attentive, canny, careful, cautious, chary, circumspect, conservative, considerate, deliberate, diligent, forethoughtful, forward-looking, grandmotherly, guarded, heedful, monitorial, observant, precise, thoughtful, up and coming, wary). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

който се оглежда наоколо. (various references)

   

Czech

  

opatrný (cagey, cagy, cannie, canny, careful, cautious, chary, circumspect, conservative, gingerly, guarded, prudent, safe, shy, wary). (various references)

   

French

  

précautionneuxse. (various references)

   

German

  

vorsichtige (cautiously). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

körültekintõen. (various references)

   

Italian

  

circospetto (canny, cautious, circumspect, discreet). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ircumspectivecay

   

Portuguese

  

circunspeto (cattish, cautious, circumspect, deliberate, discreet, reserved, serious, thought-out, vigilant, wary, wise), circunspecto (cattish, cautious, circumspect, deliberate, discreet, reserved, serious, thought-out, vigilant, wary, wise), prudente (advised, canny, careful, cattish, cautious, chary, discreet, far sighted, far-sightedly, forehanded, heedful, longstanding, non committal, politic, provident, prudent, prudential, reasonable, sagacious, sage, sensible, sound, wary, well advised, well-judged, wise, wizard), hábil (able, adroit, artful, canny, capable, cattish, clever, cunning, deft, dexterous, diplomatic, habile, ingenious, knacky, light-handed, neat, neat-handed, practitioner, skilful, skilled, skillful), equilibrado (balanced, canny, cattish, decent, even, goodwill, leveling). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

осторожный (cagey, cagy, canny, cautious, chary, circumspect, discreet, gingerly, prudent, wary, watchful), осматривающий. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

oprezan (alert, argus-eyed, careful, chary, circumspect, deliberate, discreet, measured, vigilant, ware, wary, wide awake). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

circunspecto (careful, cautious, circumspect, discreet, thoughtful), prudente (advisable, careful, cautious, circumspect, deliberate, discreet, politic, prudent, right-minded, safe, sound, thoughtful, wise). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

iakttagelsefull, försiktig (cagey, canny, careful, cautious, chary, circumspect, conservative, deliberate, gingerly, guarded, mealy mouthed, tentative, wary). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

обережний (alert, canny, careful, cautionary, cautious, chary, circumspect, deliberate, discreet, fabian, gingerly, heedful, precautious, tender, up and coming, ware, wary, watchful), обачний (awake, canny, careful, cautious, chary, circumspect, deliberate, fly, guarded, hard-headed, provident, prudent, wary, wise), насторожений (alert, circumspect, listening, prick-eared, wary, watchful), пильний (alert, attentive, awake, circumspect, dusty, hawk-eyed, open-eyed, sleepless, staring, vigilant, ware, wide awake). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "CIRCUMSPECTIVE"

Words rhyming with "CIRCUMSPECTIVE" (pronounced 'Cir`cum*spec"tive'): Abjunctive, Absorptive, Abstractive, Accretive, Active, Adductive, Adscriptive, Affective, Afflictive, Appetitive, Arbustive, Architective, Assumptive, Astrictive, Astructive, Attentive, Benedictive, Calefactive, Chylifactive, Circumscriptive, Coactive, Collative, Completive, Compunctive, Conceptive, Concretive, Conglutinative, Conjunctive, Contortive, Convective, Costive, Creative, Deceptive, Decretive, Defunctive, festive, fictive, Flative, Fotive, furtive, inactive, inattentive, instinctive, introspective, irrespective, irruptive, Magnetomotive, Miscreative, Native, Obstupefactive. (additional references)

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Anagrams: CIRCUMSPECTIVE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-c-c-e-e-i-i-m-p-r-s-t-u-v"

-3 letters: circumspect.

-4 letters: circumcise, septicemic.

-5 letters: crimpiest, epicurism, epistemic, eruptives, imprecise, pumicites.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: CIRCUMSPECTIVE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 49 52 43 55 4D 53 50 45 43 54 49 56 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-.    ..    .-.    -.-.    ..-    --    ...    .--.    .    -.-.    -    ..    ...-    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01001001 01010010 01000011 01010101 01001101 01010011 01010000 01000101 01000011 01010100 01001001 01010110 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#73 &#82 &#67 &#85 &#77 &#83 &#80 &#69 &#67 &#84 &#73 &#86 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0049 0052 0043 0055 004D 0053 0050 0045 0043 0054 0049 0056 0045

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3743523755475350393754435639

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Non-English Dictionaries with "CIRCUMSPECTIVE"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Albanian

fjalor, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, transmetim, transferimshqip, албанец, албански език, албански, albánský, Albanais, albaner, albán, albanese, albanês, албанский, albanski, albanac, albanés, alban, албанський, албанка, албанець

Bulgarian

речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, преводbulgr, български, български език, българин, bulharský, bulgare, bolgár, bulgaro, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, búlgaro, bulgar, болгарський

Czech

slovník, definice, překladçek, чешки, èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, tchèque, Tscheche, tschechisch, Tschechin, cseh, ceco, чешский, češki jezik, čeh, češki, checo, tjeck, чех, чеська мова, чеський, чешка

French

dictionnaire, définition, traductionfrëngjishte, frëng, franceze, френски език, френски, francouzský, francouzština, français, französisch, francia, francese, francês, французский, francuski jezik, francuski, francuzi, francés, fransk, franska, французька мова, французький

German

Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definitiongjerman, германски, немски език, немски, немец, роден, готически, германец, nìmec, nìmecký, allemand, német, tedesco, alemão, немецкий, germanski, alemán, tysk, німкеня, німецький, німець

Hungarian

szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordításунгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, maïarský, maïarština, maïar, hongrois, Ungar, magyar, ungherese, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, húngaro, ungrare, угорська мова, угорський, угорка, угорець

Italian

dizionario, definizione, traduzioneиталиански език, италиански, италианец, italský, italština, ital, italien, italienisch, olasz, italiano, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский, italijan, italijanski jezik, italijanski, italiensk, italienska, italienare, італі"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка

Portuguese

dicionário, definição, traduçãoportugez, portugalisht, португалски, португалски език, португалец, portugalský, portugais, portugiesisch, portugál, portoghese, português, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalac, portugalski, portugués, portugis, португальський, португальська мова, португалець

Russian

словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещениеруски език, руски, руснак, ruština, ruský, Russe, russisch, orosz, russo, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, ryss, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський

Serbo-Croatian

leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenjeserbokroatisch, servo-croata, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski, serbokroatiska, serbokroatisk

Spanish

diccionario, definición, traducciónspanjoll, испански език, испански, španìlský, španìlština, espagnol, spanisch, spanyol, spagnolo, espanhol, испанский, španski, španski jezik, español, spanska språk, spansk, іспанський, іспанська мова

Swedish

ordbok, lexikon, översättningsuedez, шведски, шведски език, швед, švédský, švédština, suédois, schwedisch, svéd, svedese, шведский, švedski jezik, švedski, sueco, svensk, шведська мова, шведський

Ukrainian

словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщенняukrainisht, ukrainas, украинец, украински език, ukrajinec, ukrajinština, ukrajinský, ukrajinka, ukrainien, ukrainisch, ukrainerin, Ukrainer, ukrán, ucraino, ucraniano, украинский язык, украинский, украинец украинский, ukrajinski, ukrajina, ucranio, ukrainare, український, українець

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationanglezët, anglez, gjuhë zngleze, anglishte, anglisht, английски език, английски, англичаните, anglicky, anglais, englisch, angol, inglese, inglês, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, inglés, engelsk, англійський, англійці, англійська мова
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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