Definition of "carefully" adverb comparative more carefully , superlative most carefully
(obsolete) Sorrowfully . quotations
Quotations […] 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 […]
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
With care ; attentively , circumspectly . quotations examples
Quotations 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 .
1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter II, in The Lodger, London: Methuen; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], page 0091