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Definition: Cautiously |
CautiouslyAdverb1. With caution or prudence; "she ventured cautiously downstairs". 2. In a conservative manner; "we estimated the number of demonstrators conservatively at 200,000.". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cautiously" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Synonyms: CautiouslySynonyms: carefully (adv), conservatively (adv), guardedly (adv). (additional references) |
| Antonym: incautiously (adv). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Caution | Adverb: cautiously; Adjective: |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Cautiously |
| English words defined with "cautiously": careful, carefully, conserve ♦ economise, economize ♦ heedful, husband ♦ Nibblingly ♦ Pedetentous, Presumptive evidence ♦ To hint at, To watch over ♦ Warely. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "cautiously": Flag Signals ♦ GINGERLY. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "cautiously": Warely. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Clever | You can't test courage cautiously. (references; author: unknown) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Author | Quotation |
Zimmermann | Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe | Douglas Adams | After a while an animal- a deer perhaps - would appear from out of the trees and watch him cautiously. Ford would continue to smile at it, his eyes would soften and shine, and he would seem to radiate a deep and universal love, a love which reached out to embrace all of creation |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Round the corner of the last house on his left, cautiously advancing his head, he looked into this end of the Rue Mondetour |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The women moved cautiously out of the doorways toward their men, and the children crept behind the women, cautiously, ready to run. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Until there is a better understanding of these substances, you should proceed cautiously. (references) | |
It must be borne in mind that cases are usually recognized by HPS surveillance or by the dramatic manifestations of HPS, so there is a strong ascertainment bias. Until there is at least a common protocol for evaluating cases in South America, the different manifestations reported by various groups need to be interpreted cautiously. (references) | ||
Business | International consultants are cautiously optimistic. (references) | |
In 1999, consumers had proceeded very cautiously with the purchase of textile products. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Venezuela | A subsequent press release from the Ministry of Education, Culture, and Sports cautiously stated that the decree could be applied properly only to those schools receiving public funds. (references) |
Economic History | Bahrain | The expatriate business community is cautiously optimistic although no radical changes are expected imminently. (references) |
Finland | The Finns responded cautiously in 1990-91 to the decline of Soviet power and the U.S.S.R.'s subsequent dissolution. (references) | |
Political Economy | Israel | These two considerations have led some foreign businesses to move cautiously on investments in Israel. (references) |
ISRAEL | The Bank of Israel has brought interest rates down very cautiously and gradually over the past two years from over 11 percent at the end of 1999 to 6.3 percent by September 2001. (references) | |
Trade | Pakistan | Foreign banks have reacted cautiously to proposals to establish a system of deposit insurance, because they fear having, in effect, to subsidize the state-owned and newly privatized banks that hold far weaker portfolios. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Cautiously" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 99.86% of the time. "Cautiously" is used about 716 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 99.86% | 715 | 9,396 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.14% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 716 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "cautiously": cautiously-worded. | |
Ending with "cautiously": over-cautiously. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "cautiously"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | بحذر (carefully, guardedly, in a velvet glove), بإحتراس (carefully). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | внимателно (carefully, close, closely, gently, guardedly, narrowly, nicely, steady, warily), предпазливо (carefully, cosy, gingerly, guardedly, reservedly, warily). (various references) | |
Chinese | 谨慎地 (Discreetly, Prudentially). (various references) | |
Czech | opatrnì (carefully, gingerly, guardedly, warily, with care), obezřetnì. (various references) | |
Danish | spildt væske neutraliseres forsigtigt (cautiously neutralize spilled liquid). (various references) | |
Dutch | morsvloeistof voorzichtig neutraliseren (cautiously neutralize spilled liquid). (various references) | |
French | précautionneusement (carefully, with care), avec prudence, avec précaution (carefully), avec circonspection. (various references) | |
German | vorsichtig (cagey, canny, careful, carefully, cautiouns, cautious, charily, chary, circumspect, circumspectly, conservative, deliberate, gingerly, guarded, guardedly, prudent, safe, safely, steady, tentative, warily, wary). (various references) | |
Greek | επιφυλακτικά. (various references) | |
Hebrew | בז"ירות (gingerly, guardedly, mindfully). (various references) | |
Hungarian | gyanakvóan (mistrustfully), óvatosan (cagily, charily, circumspectly, gingerly, guardedly, to pussyfoot, warily, watchfully). (various references) | |
Italian | cautamente (gingerly). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 恐恐 (fearfully, respect, timidly), 恐々 (fearfully, respect, timidly). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | "わ"わ (fearfully, nervously, timidly). (various references) | |
Korean | 계심하. (various references) | |
Manx | dy twoaieagh (apprehensively). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | autiouslycay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | neutralize cuidadosamente o líquido derramado (cautiously neutralize spilled liquid). (various references) | |
Romanian | precaut (cagey, cautious, circumspect, gingerly, precautious, prudent, safe, thoughtful, warily, wary). (various references) | |
Russian | осторожно (carefully, choicely, deliberately, easy does it, gently, gingerly, guardedly, in kid gloves, look out, reservedly, warily, with care, with kid gloves, with reserve). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pažljivo (carefully, intently, thoroughly, thoughtfully). (various references) | |
Spanish | cautelosamente (gingerly, guardedly, warily), cautamente. (various references) | |
Swedish | försiktigt (carefully, gently, gingerly). (various references) | |
Turkish | ihtiyatla (gingerly), dikkatlice (attentively, carefully, sharp, well). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | caute, caute, cautim, considerate, custodite, praecidentius. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "cautiously": incautiously. (additional references) | |
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"Cautiously" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cauciously, causiously, cautionsly, cautiosly. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "cautiously" (pronounced kô"shuslē) |
| 5 | -sh u s l ē | ambitiously, anxiously, capriciously, consciously, deliciously, judiciously, expeditiously, facetiously, fallaciously, ferociously, graciously, hellaciously, maliciously, ostentatiously, subconsciously, surreptitiously, suspiciously, tenaciously, unconsciously, viciously. |
| 4 | -u s l ē | aimlessly, anonymously, assiduously, autonomously, breathlessly, callously, carelessly, ceaselessly, conscientiously, conspicuously, contemporaneously, contemptuously, continuously, courageously, curiously, dangerously, disastrously, jealously, laboriously, effortlessly, egregiously, endlessly, enormously, enviously, erroneously, fabulously, famously, flawlessly, frivolously, fruitlessly, furiously, generously, gloriously, gratuitously, grievously, harmlessly, harmoniously, helplessly, hideously, hilariously, hopelessly, horrendously, humorously, incongruously, indigenously, ingeniously, instantaneously, intravenously, listlessly, ludicrously, marvelously, mercilessly, meticulously, mindlessly, miraculously, mysteriously, needlessly, nervously, notoriously, obviously, ominously, outrageously, painlessly, perilously, piously, posthumously, precariously, precipitously, previously, prodigiously, purposely, recklessly, relentlessly, religiously, restlessly, ridiculously, righteously, rigorously, ruthlessly, scrupulously, seamlessly, seriously, shamelessly, simultaneously, spontaneously, strenuously, studiously, synonymously, tediously, tirelessly, tremendously, tremulously, unambiguously, unanimously, unceremoniously, variously, vicariously, vigorously, vociferously, zealously. |
| 3 | -s l ē | adversely, closely, concisely, conversely, densely, expressly, falsely, fiercely, grossly, immensely, intensely, inversely, loosely, nicely, parsley, perversely, precisely, princely, profusely, scarcely, sparsely, tensely, tersely, thusly. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-l-o-s-t-u-u-y" | |
-2 letters: cautious. | |
-3 letters: citolas, layouts, locusta, oculist, outlays, outsail, saucily, stoical, talcous. | |
-4 letters: acuity, aliyos, aliyot, caulis, citola, clouts, coatis, coital, coitus, cosily, costal, costly, coulis, cultus, cutlas, layout, locust, octyls, oculus, oscula, outlay, scotia, sluicy, social, ticals, toluic. | |
-5 letters: acyls, alist, altos, ascot, aulic, autos, calos, cauls, clast, clays, clits, clots, clout, cloys, coals. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-l-o-s-t-u-u-y" | |
+2 letters: autoeciously, incautiously. | |
+3 letters: uncustomarily. | |
+4 letters: contumaciously, rambunctiously. | |
+5 letters: socioculturally. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Quotations: Fiction 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Translations: Modern 11. Translations: Ancient 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Bibliography |
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