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comparative more careful or carefuller, superlative most careful or carefullest
Taking care; attentive to potential danger, error or harm; cautious. examples
Conscientious and painstaking; meticulous. quotations examples
At the same time, we were cognisant that careful scholars should never solely rely on their own impressionistic observations, and, that our own impressions were inexact and not capable of being quantified.
2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, page 7
(obsolete) Full of care or grief; sorrowful, sad.
(obsolete) Full of cares or anxiety; worried, troubled. quotations
Where through long watch, and late daies weary toile, / She soundly slept, and carefull thoughts did quite assoile.
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie