cautious
UK/ˈkɔːʃəs/
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Australia/ˈkoːʃəs/
cautious adjective: using or exercising caution; careful; tentative.
Adjective
cautious (comparative more cautious, superlative most cautious)
- Using or exercising caution; careful; tentative
- He took a few cautious steps toward the cave.
- Synonyms:
- alert, attentive, careful, cautelous, canny, chary, circumspect, conservative, deliberate, discreet
cautious meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
cautious in Hindi
- careful
- सावधान sāvdhān, सतर्क satark
cautious in Tamil
- எச்சரிக்கையான, கவனமான, முன்மதியுடைய, விழிப்பான
cautious in Marathi
- careful
- सावध sāvadh
cautious in Urdu
- careful
- ساودھان sāvdhān, سترک satark, محتاط muhtāt
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- cautious in Bengali
- সতর্ক śotork, সাবধান śabodhan
- cautious in Malayalam
- സൂക്ഷ്മ, ശ്രദ്ധയുള്ള, അവഹിത, കരുതലുള്ള
- cautious in Gujarati
- સાવધાન sāvdhān
- cautious in Sanskrit
- सतर्क satarka, सावधान sāvadhāna
- cautious in Assamese
- সাৱধান xawodhan
- cautious in Arabic
- وَرِع wariʕ, حَذِر ḥaḏir, مُتَحَوِّط mutaḥawwiṭ
- cautious in Indonesian
- waspada
- cautious in Persian
- محتاط mohtât
- cautious in Thai
- ระวัง rá-wang, รอบคอบ rɔ̂ɔp-kɔ̂ɔp, สุขุม sù-kǔm, ระมัดระวัง rá-mát-rá-wang
- cautious in Vietnamese
- cẩn trọng, cẩn thận
- cautious in Myanmar
- သတိထား sa.ti.hta:
Examples of cautious in a sentence
- Be cautious talking about religion or politics, lest you touch off an argument.
- He was very cautious with his words and gave no hostages to fortune.
- You should be cautious due to the Somali pirates.
Synonyms of cautious
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Forms of cautious
| comparative | more cautious |
|---|---|
| superlative | most cautious |
Origin of cautious
From cauti(on) + -ous. Compare Latin cautus.
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Questions about cautious
- What does cautious mean?
- Cautious means using or exercising caution; careful; tentative.
- What is cautious in Hindi?
- Cautious in Hindi is सावधान (sāvdhān), सतर्क (satark). See Cautious meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is cautious?
- Cautious is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce cautious?
- Cautious is pronounced /ˈkɔːʃəs/ (UK).
Words near cautious in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: cautious (page history and authors); cautious (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cautious (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); सतर्क (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); সাৱধান (Assamese) (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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