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circumspective

circumspective adjective: looking around in all directions; cautious or watchful of danger.

Adjective

circumspective (comparative more circumspective, superlative most circumspective)

  1. Looking around in all directions; cautious or watchful of danger.
    • circumspective eyes1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: […] J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC
  2. Pertaining to situation or circumstances.
    • circumspective concern
    • The existential meaning of circumspective deliberation, Heidegger argues in Being and Time is making-present (Gegenwärtigung).1999, William McNeill, The Glance of the Eye, page 78

circumspective meaning in Tamil

circumspective in Tamil

எச்சரிக்கையான, விழிப்பான

Examples of circumspective in a sentence

  • Rather it is the unity of the three ecstasies of the temporality that constitutes the circumspective concern in its temporality.2000, Vensus A. George, The Experience of Being as Goal of Human Existence, page 118:
  • In the main, this circumspective aspect of morality is a relational affair, principally between the agent and at least two persons or parties other than the agent.2014, John Laird, An Enquiry into Moral Notions, page 306:

Forms of circumspective

comparativemore circumspective
superlativemost circumspective

Origin of circumspective

From Latin circumspicere.

Words formed from circumspective

Questions about circumspective

What does circumspective mean?
Circumspective means looking around in all directions; cautious or watchful of danger.
What is circumspective in Tamil?
Circumspective in Tamil is எச்சரிக்கையான, விழிப்பான. See Circumspective meaning in Tamil.
How do you use circumspective in a sentence?
Rather it is the unity of the three ecstasies of the temporality that constitutes the circumspective concern in its temporality.
What part of speech is circumspective?
Circumspective is an adjective.

Words near circumspective in the dictionary

  1. circumspatial
  2. circumspect
  3. circumspection
  4. circumspections
  5. circumspectious
  6. circumspective
  7. circumspectively
  8. circumspectivity
  9. circumspectly
  10. circumspectness
  11. circumsphere

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Adapted from Wiktionary: circumspective (page history and authors); circumspective (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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