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carefull

carefull is the obsolete spelling of careful.

Meaning of careful

Adjective

careful (comparative more careful, superlative most careful)

  1. Taking care; attentive to potential danger, error or harm; cautious.
    • He was a slow and careful driver.
  2. Conscientious and painstaking; meticulous.
    • They made a careful search of the crime scene.
  3. (obsolete) Full of care or grief; sorrowful, sad.
  4. (obsolete) Full of cares or anxiety; worried, troubled.
    • 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, →OCLC

Questions about carefull

What is carefull the obsolete spelling of?
Carefull is the obsolete spelling of careful.

Words near carefull in the dictionary

  1. carefronted
  2. carefronting
  3. carefronts
  4. careful
  5. careful what you wish for
  6. carefull
  7. carefuller
  8. carefullest
  9. carefullier
  10. carefully
  11. carefulness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: carefull (page history and authors); careful (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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