Etymology
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From Middle English carfulli , carefulliche , from Old English carfullīċe , ċearfullīċe ( “ carefully, diligently ” ) , equivalent to careful + -ly .
Pronunciation
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Specialist worked carefully to restore the antique mirror.
carefully (comparative more carefully , superlative most carefully )
( obsolete ) Sorrowfully .
1590 , Edmund Spenser , “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. [ … ] , London: [ … ] [John Wolfe ] for William Ponsonbie , →OCLC :[ …] there was she faine / To call them all in order to her ayde, / And them conjure, upon eternall paine, / To counsell her, so carefully dismayd, / How she might heale her sonne [ …]
With care ; attentively , circumspectly .
As he was a politician, he discussed all subjects carefully , not offending anyone.
He carefully studied the papers, while planning his next move.
He carefully avoided the subject all evening.
1913 , Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes , chapter II, in The Lodger , London: Methuen , →OCLC ; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened , New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co. , [ … ] , [ 1933] , →OCLC , page 0091 :Then his sallow face brightened, for the hall had been carefully furnished, and was very clean. ¶ There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
Painstakingly , meticulously
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Translations
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in a careful manner
Arabic: بِعِنَايَة ( bi-ʕināya )
Armenian: զգույշ (hy) ( zguyš ) , կամաց (hy) ( kamacʻ )
Azerbaijani: ehtiyatla , ehtiyatlı
Basque: kontuz (eu) , arretaz
Belarusian: асцяро́жна ( ascjaróžna )
Bulgarian: грижливо (bg) ( grižlivo ) , внимателно (bg) ( vnimatelno )
Burmese: please add this translation if you can
Catalan: acuradament (ca)
Cherokee: please add this translation if you can
Chinese:
Mandarin: 小心地 (zh) ( xiǎoxīn de )
Czech: opatrně (cs)
Danish: forsigtig
Dutch: voorzichtig (nl)
Esperanto: zorgeme , zorge
Estonian: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: tarkasti (fi) , tarkoin (fi) , varovasti (fi) , varovaisesti (fi)
French: soigneusement (fr)
Galician: coidadosamente
German: vorsichtig (de)
Greek: επιμελώς (el) ( epimelós )
Ancient: ἐπιμελῶς ( epimelôs )
Irish: go haireach
Italian: minuziosamente (it) , accuratamente (it) , meticolosamente (it) , puntigliosamente (it) , attentamente (it)
Japanese: じっくり (ja) ( jikkuri ) , 慎重に ( しんちょうに, shinchō ni )
Khmer: ដោយប្រុងប្រយ័ត្ន ( daoy proŋ prɑyat )
Korean: 주의하여 ( juuihayeo ) , 조심스럽게 ( josimseureopge ) , 신중히 (ko) ( sinjunghi )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: بە وردی ( be wirdî ) , بە ھێواشی ( be hêwaşî )
Latin: curiose , caute (la)
Middle English: sadly
Navajo: tʼáá tłehee
Plautdietsch: behutsom
Polish: ostrożnie (pl)
Portuguese: cuidadosamente (pt) , cautelosamente
Romanian: cu grijă
Russian: осторо́жно (ru) ( ostoróžno ) , аккура́тно (ru) ( akkurátno ) , внима́тельно (ru) ( vnimátelʹno )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: brìžljivo (sh) , pòmnjivo (sh) , pȏmno (sh)
Roman: brìžljivo (sh) , pòmnjivo (sh) , pȏmno (sh)
Shoshone: ian
Spanish: cuidadosamente (es) , a conciencia , minuciosamente (es) , con esmero
Swahili: taratibu (sw)
Swedish: försiktig (sv)
Tocharian B: anaiśai
Turkish: dikkatlice , itinayla , özenle (tr) , titizlikle (tr)
Ukrainian: обере́жно ( oberéžno )
Uyghur: پۇختا ( puxta )
Volapük: please add this translation if you can