circumspective

English

Etymology

From Latin circumspicere.

Adjective

circumspective (comparative more circumspective, superlative most circumspective)

1. Looking in all directions; cautious or watchful of danger.
   • 1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: Printed for J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC:

     circumspective eyes

Related terms

• circumspect

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “circumspective”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)