Related Words:
- accurate,
- active,
- attentive,
- careful,
- censorious,
- choicy,
- choosy,
- close,
- compliant,
- conforming,
- conscientious,
- conscionable,
- constant,
- conventional,
- correct,
- critical,
- delicate,
- demanding,
- detailed,
- devoted,
- devout,
- discriminating,
- discriminative,
- duteous,
- dutiful,
- exact,
- exacting,
- exigent,
- exquisite,
- faithful,
- fastidious,
- fine,
- finical,
- finicking,
- finicky,
- formal,
- fussy,
- heedful,
- loyal,
- methodical,
- meticulous,
- mindful,
- minute,
- narrow,
- nice,
- observant,
- orderly,
- overconscientious,
- overscrupulous,
- painstaking,
- particular,
- perfectionistic,
- picky,
- practicing,
- precious,
- precise,
- precisian,
- precisianistic,
- precisionist,
- precisionistic,
- priggish,
- prudish,
- punctual,
- puristic,
- puritanic,
- refined,
- regardful,
- religious,
- rigid,
- rigorous,
- scrupulous,
- scrutinizing,
- selective,
- sensitive,
- strict,
- subtle,
- tender-conscienced,
- true
- uncommunicative
collapse - not inclined to talk or give information or express opinions related words >
- aloof,
- autistic,
- bashful,
- canny,
- careful,
- cautious,
- circumspect,
- close,
- close-lipped,
- close-tongued,
- closemouthed,
- dark,
- deliberate,
- discreet,
- disinclined to communicate,
- dissociable,
- distant,
- evasive,
- gingerly,
- guarded,
- heedful,
- hesitant,
- incompatible,
- insociable,
- judicious,
- leaving out nothing,
- meaningless,
- mindful,
- mopey,
- mopish,
- morose,
- noncommittal,
- nongregarious,
- offish,
- on guard,
- overlooking no possibility,
- pawky,
- politic,
- prudent,
- regardful,
- reserved,
- reticent,
- safe,
- secret,
- secretive,
- self-contained,
- self-sufficient,
- shifty,
- slow to act,
- snug,
- socially incompatible,
- standoffish,
- sullen,
- taciturn,
- tentative,
- thorough,
- tight-lipped,
- unadventurous,
- unapproachable,
- unbending,
- unclubbable,
- uncompanionable,
- uncongenial,
- unconversable,
- undaring,
- unenterprising,
- unfriendly,
- ungenial,
- unprecipitate,
- unsociable,
- unsocial,
- withdrawn
- parsimonious
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- excessively unwilling to spend; "parsimonious thrift relieved by few generous impulses"; "lived in a most penurious manner--denying himself every indulgence" related words >
- Lenten,
- Scotch,
- Spartan,
- abstemious,
- ascetic,
- austere,
- canny,
- careful,
- chary,
- cheeseparing,
- conserving,
- dwarfed,
- dwarfish,
- economic,
- economizing,
- exiguous,
- forehanded,
- frugal,
- frugal to excess,
- impoverished,
- jejune,
- labor-saving,
- lean,
- limited,
- meager,
- mean,
- miserly,
- money-saving,
- narrow,
- niggardly,
- overfrugal,
- paltry,
- penny-wise,
- penny-wise and pound-foolish,
- poor,
- provident,
- prudent,
- prudential,
- puny,
- saving,
- scamping,
- scant,
- scanty,
- scrawny,
- scrimp,
- scrimping,
- scrimpy,
- skimp,
- skimping,
- skimpy,
- slender,
- slight,
- slim,
- small,
- spare,
- sparing,
- starvation,
- stingy,
- stinted,
- stinting,
- straitened,
- stunted,
- subsistence,
- thin,
- thrifty,
- time-saving,
- too frugal,
- unnourishing,
- unnutritious,
- unwasteful,
- watered,
- watery
- methodical
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- characterized by method and orderliness; "a methodical scholar" related words >
- accordant,
- alike,
- analytical,
- arranged,
- automatic,
- balanced,
- businesslike,
- careful,
- consistent,
- consonant,
- constant,
- continuous,
- correspondent,
- deliberate,
- disciplined,
- equable,
- equal,
- even,
- exact,
- flat,
- formal,
- habitual,
- harmonious,
- homogeneous,
- immutable,
- in hand,
- invariable,
- labored,
- laborious,
- level,
- logical,
- measured,
- mechanical,
- methodic,
- methodized,
- meticulous,
- monolithic,
- neat,
- normal,
- of a piece,
- ordered,
- orderly,
- organized,
- paced,
- painstaking,
- persistent,
- plodding,
- precious,
- precise,
- precisian,
- precisionist,
- punctilious,
- puristic,
- regular,
- regular as clockwork,
- robotlike,
- routine,
- scrupulous,
- smooth,
- stable,
- steadfast,
- steady,
- structured,
- symmetrical,
- systematic,
- systematized,
- tidy,
- unbroken,
- unchangeable,
- unchanged,
- unchanging,
- undeviating,
- undifferentiated,
- undiversified,
- uniform,
- unruffled,
- unvaried,
- unvarying,
- usual,
- well-ordered,
- well-regulated
- Argus-eyed,
- advertent,
- agog,
- alert,
- all ears,
- all eyes,
- assiduous,
- attentive,
- aux aguets,
- aware,
- careful,
- cautious,
- chary,
- circumspect,
- concentrated,
- conscious,
- covering,
- custodial,
- defensive,
- diligent,
- eagle-eyed,
- earnest,
- finical,
- finicking,
- finicky,
- fostering,
- guarded,
- guardian,
- guarding,
- hawk-eyed,
- heedful,
- immunizing,
- intense,
- intent,
- intentive,
- keen-eyed,
- lidless,
- meticulous,
- mindful,
- nice,
- niggling,
- observant,
- observing,
- on guard,
- on the ball,
- on the job,
- on the lookout,
- on the watch,
- open-eared,
- open-eyed,
- openmouthed,
- parental,
- preventive,
- prompt,
- prophylactic,
- protecting,
- protective,
- prudent,
- quick,
- ready,
- regardful,
- safeguarding,
- screening,
- sharp-eyed,
- sheltering,
- shielding,
- sleepless,
- tutelary,
- unsleeping,
- vigilant,
- wakeful,
- wary,
- wide-awake,
- with open eyes
- accurate,
- advertent,
- agog,
- alert,
- all ears,
- all eyes,
- assiduous,
- attentive,
- aware,
- careful,
- choosy,
- close,
- concentrated,
- conscientious,
- conscious,
- correct,
- critical,
- dainty,
- delicate,
- demanding,
- detailed,
- difficult,
- diligent,
- earnest,
- elaborate,
- exact,
- exacting,
- exigent,
- exquisite,
- fastidious,
- fine,
- finical,
- finicking,
- finikin,
- full,
- fuss-budgety,
- fussy,
- hard to please,
- heedful,
- intense,
- intent,
- intentive,
- meticulous,
- mindful,
- minute,
- narrow,
- nice,
- niggling,
- nit-picking,
- observant,
- observing,
- on the ball,
- on the job,
- open-eared,
- open-eyed,
- openmouthed,
- particular,
- pawky,
- pernickety,
- persnickety,
- picayune,
- picky,
- precise,
- precisianistic,
- precisionistic,
- punctilious,
- punctual,
- queasy,
- refined,
- regardful,
- religious,
- rigid,
- rigorous,
- scrupulous,
- scrutinizing,
- special,
- specific,
- squeamish,
- strict,
- subtle,
- watchful
- tiptoe
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- the tip of a toe
- walking on the tips of ones's toes so as to make no noise; "moving with tiptoe steps"
- on tiptoe or as if on tiptoe; "standing tiptoe"
- walk on one's toes related words >
- above,
- abovestairs,
- airward,
- all fours,
- aloft,
- aloof,
- atiptoe,
- be careful,
- be cautious,
- couch,
- crawl,
- crawling,
- creep,
- creeping,
- go on tiptoe,
- grovel,
- gumshoe,
- gumshoeing,
- high,
- high up,
- in the air,
- in the clouds,
- inch,
- inch along,
- lay wait,
- lie in wait,
- lurk,
- make haste slowly,
- nightwalk,
- nightwalking,
- on all fours,
- on high,
- on stilts,
- on the peak,
- on tippytoe,
- on tiptoe,
- over,
- overhead,
- pad,
- padding,
- prowl,
- prowling,
- pussyfoot,
- pussyfooting,
- repent,
- reptant,
- reptatorial,
- reptile,
- scrabble,
- scramble,
- shadow,
- sidle,
- sidling,
- skulk,
- skyward,
- slink,
- slinking,
- snake,
- snaking,
- sneak,
- sneaking,
- stalk,
- steal,
- steal along,
- stealing,
- straight up,
- take it easy,
- think twice,
- tip,
- tippytoe,
- tiptoeing,
- to the zenith,
- toe,
- up,
- upstairs,
- upward,
- upwards,
- walk on eggshells,
- worm,
- worm along,
- worming
- judicious
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- marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters; "judicious use of one's money"; "a wise decision" related words >
- astute,
- aware,
- bland,
- canny,
- careful,
- cautious,
- circumspect,
- considerate,
- considered,
- critical,
- deliberate,
- diplomatic,
- discerning,
- discreet,
- discriminating,
- discriminative,
- dispassionate,
- enlightened,
- equitable,
- fair,
- gentle,
- gingerly,
- guarded,
- heedful,
- hesitant,
- insightful,
- intelligent,
- judgmatic,
- judgmental,
- judicative,
- judicial,
- judiciary,
- juridic,
- juristic,
- leaving out nothing,
- logical,
- mild,
- mild as milk,
- mindful,
- moderate,
- noncommittal,
- nonviolent,
- objective,
- on guard,
- overlooking no possibility,
- pacifistic,
- pawky,
- peaceable,
- peaceful,
- perceptive,
- percipient,
- perspicacious,
- politic,
- provident,
- prudent,
- prudential,
- rational,
- reasonable,
- reflecting,
- reflective,
- regardful,
- safe,
- sage,
- sane,
- sapient,
- sensible,
- slow to act,
- sober,
- soft,
- sound,
- tactful,
- tame,
- temperate,
- tentative,
- thorough,
- thoughtful,
- unadventurous,
- uncommunicative,
- undaring,
- unenterprising,
- unprecipitate,
- well-advised,
- well-informed,
- well-judged,
- wise
- heedful
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- taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention; "heedful of the warnings"; "so heedful a writer"; "heedful of what they were doing" related words >
- accommodating,
- accommodative,
- advertent,
- agog,
- agreeable,
- alert,
- all ears,
- all eyes,
- assiduous,
- attentive,
- aware,
- canny,
- careful,
- cautious,
- circumspect,
- complaisant,
- concentrated,
- conscientious,
- conscionable,
- conscious,
- considerate,
- curious,
- deliberate,
- delicate,
- diligent,
- discreet,
- earnest,
- exact,
- finical,
- finicking,
- finicky,
- fussy,
- gingerly,
- guarded,
- helpful,
- hesitant,
- indulgent,
- intense,
- intent,
- intentive,
- judicious,
- leaving out nothing,
- lenient,
- loving,
- meticulous,
- mindful,
- mindful of others,
- nice,
- niggling,
- noncommittal,
- obliging,
- observant,
- observing,
- on guard,
- on the ball,
- on the job,
- open-eared,
- open-eyed,
- openmouthed,
- overlooking no possibility,
- painstaking,
- pawky,
- politic,
- prudent,
- punctilious,
- punctual,
- regardful,
- safe,
- scrupulous,
- slow to act,
- solicitous,
- tactful,
- tender,
- tentative,
- thorough,
- thoughtful,
- tolerant,
- unadventurous,
- uncommunicative,
- undaring,
- unenterprising,
- unprecipitate,
- watchful
- observant
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- paying close attention especially to details
- quick to notice; showing quick and keen perception related words >
- Argus-eyed,
- active,
- advertent,
- agog,
- alert,
- all ears,
- all eyes,
- assiduous,
- attentive,
- aux aguets,
- awake,
- aware,
- careful,
- compliant,
- concentrated,
- conforming,
- conscientious,
- conscious,
- constant,
- custodial,
- deferential,
- devoted,
- devout,
- diligent,
- duteous,
- dutiful,
- eagle-eyed,
- earnest,
- ethical,
- faithful,
- finical,
- finicking,
- finicky,
- guarded,
- hawk-eyed,
- heedful,
- intense,
- intent,
- intentive,
- keen,
- keen-eyed,
- lidless,
- loyal,
- meticulous,
- mindful,
- moral,
- nice,
- niggling,
- obedient,
- observing,
- on guard,
- on the ball,
- on the job,
- on the lookout,
- on the watch,
- open-eared,
- open-eyed,
- openmouthed,
- perceptive,
- practicing,
- prudent,
- punctilious,
- punctual,
- regardful,
- respectful,
- scrupulous,
- sharp,
- sharp-eyed,
- shrewd,
- sleepless,
- thoughtful,
- true,
- vigilant,
- wary,
- watchful,
- wide awake,
- with open eyes
- discriminating
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- showing or indicating careful judgment and discernment especially in matters of taste; "the discriminating eye of the connoisseur" related words >
- accurate,
- adoptive,
- appointive,
- appreciative,
- careful,
- censorious,
- characteristic,
- characterizing,
- choicy,
- choosing,
- choosy,
- circumspect,
- civilized,
- conscientious,
- considerate,
- constituent,
- contrastive,
- critical,
- cultivated,
- cultured,
- dainty,
- delicate,
- diacritical,
- diagnostic,
- differencing,
- differential,
- differentiative,
- discerning,
- discreet,
- discriminate,
- discriminative,
- distinctive,
- distinguishing,
- eclectic,
- elective,
- electoral,
- elegant,
- enlightened,
- exact,
- exacting,
- fastidious,
- fine,
- fussy,
- graceful,
- gracile,
- gracious,
- idiosyncratic,
- individualizing,
- individuating,
- judgmatic,
- judicial,
- judicious,
- keen,
- meticulous,
- nice,
- particular,
- peculiar,
- perceptive,
- perfectionistic,
- personalizing,
- picky,
- polished,
- politic,
- precise,
- precisianistic,
- priggish,
- provident,
- prudent,
- prudential,
- prudish,
- punctilious,
- puristic,
- puritanic,
- refined,
- reflecting,
- reflective,
- scrupulous,
- select,
- selecting,
- selective,
- sensitive,
- separative,
- sophisticated,
- strict,
- subtle,
- tactful,
- thoughtful,
- well-advised,
- well-judged,
- wise
- studious
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- marked by care and effort; "made a studious attempt to fix the television set" related words >
- absorbed,
- absorbed in,
- abstruse,
- academic,
- advised,
- aforethought,
- assiduous,
- attentive,
- autodidactic,
- bookish,
- buried in,
- careful,
- caught up in,
- civilized,
- college-bred,
- collegiate,
- considered,
- contemplating,
- contemplative,
- cultivated,
- cultured,
- deep,
- designed,
- devoted,
- devoted to,
- devoted to studies,
- diligent,
- donnish,
- dryasdust,
- educated,
- encyclopedic,
- engaged,
- engrossed,
- engrossed in,
- erudite,
- graduate,
- immersed in,
- industrious,
- intent,
- intent on,
- involved,
- learned,
- lettered,
- literate,
- lost in,
- mandarin,
- meditating,
- meditative,
- monomaniacal,
- monopolized,
- obsessed,
- occupied,
- owlish,
- painstaking,
- pansophic,
- pedantic,
- polyhistoric,
- polymath,
- polymathic,
- postgraduate,
- premeditated,
- preoccupied,
- prepense,
- professorial,
- profound,
- rabbinic,
- scholarly,
- scholastic,
- schoolboyish,
- schoolgirlish,
- sedulous,
- single-minded,
- sophomoric,
- studentlike,
- studied,
- studying,
- submerged in,
- swept up,
- taken up with,
- thorough,
- thought-out,
- tireless,
- totally absorbed,
- undergraduate,
- wise,
- wrapped in,
- wrapped up in
- enlightened
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- highly educated; having extensive information or understanding; "an enlightened public"; "knowing instructors"; "a knowledgeable critic"; "a knowledgeable audience"
- having knowledge and spiritual insight; related words >
- ablaze,
- abreast of,
- aglow,
- alight,
- au courant,
- aware,
- bathed with light,
- bespangled,
- blase,
- briefed,
- brightened,
- broad-minded,
- candlelit,
- careful,
- circumspect,
- civilized,
- considerate,
- cultivated,
- disabused,
- disappointed,
- discreet,
- discriminating,
- discriminative,
- disenchanted,
- disillusioned,
- educated,
- firelit,
- gaslit,
- illuminated,
- in a blaze,
- in the know,
- informed,
- instructed,
- irradiate,
- irradiated,
- judgmatic,
- judicial,
- judicious,
- knowledgeable,
- lamplit,
- lanternlit,
- liberal,
- lighted,
- lightened,
- lit,
- lit up,
- literate,
- luminous,
- moonlit,
- open-minded,
- politic,
- posted,
- primed,
- provident,
- prudent,
- prudential,
- put straight,
- rational,
- reasonable,
- reflecting,
- reflective,
- robbed of illusion,
- schooled,
- sensible,
- set right,
- sophisticated,
- spangled,
- star-spangled,
- star-studded,
- starlit,
- studded,
- sunlit,
- taught,
- thoughtful,
- tinseled,
- trained,
- uncharmed,
- undeceived,
- unspelled,
- up on,
- up-to-date,
- versed,
- well-advised,
- well-informed,
- well-judged,
- well-versed
- conscientious
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- characterized by extreme care and great effort; "conscientious application to the work at hand"; "painstaking research"; "scrupulous attention to details"
- guided by or in accordance with conscience or sense of right and wrong; "a conscientious decision to speak out about injustice" related words >
- accurate,
- active,
- attentive,
- careful,
- cautious,
- censorious,
- choicy,
- choosy,
- circumspect,
- close,
- compliant,
- conforming,
- conscionable,
- constant,
- correct,
- critical,
- deferential,
- delicate,
- demanding,
- detailed,
- devoted,
- devout,
- diligent,
- discreet,
- discriminating,
- discriminative,
- duteous,
- dutiful,
- ethical,
- exact,
- exacting,
- exigent,
- exquisite,
- fair,
- faithful,
- fastidious,
- fine,
- finical,
- finicking,
- finicky,
- fussy,
- heedful,
- high-minded,
- honest,
- honorable,
- incorruptible,
- just,
- loyal,
- meticulous,
- mindful,
- minute,
- moral,
- narrow,
- nice,
- obedient,
- observant,
- overconscientious,
- overscrupulous,
- painstaking,
- particular,
- perfectionistic,
- picky,
- politic,
- practicing,
- precise,
- precisianistic,
- precisionistic,
- priggish,
- principled,
- prudent,
- prudish,
- punctilious,
- punctual,
- puristic,
- puritanic,
- refined,
- regardful,
- religious,
- respectful,
- responsible,
- right,
- right-minded,
- righteous,
- rigid,
- rigorous,
- scrupulous,
- scrutinizing,
- selective,
- sensitive,
- serious,
- strict,
- subtle,
- tender-conscienced,
- thorough,
- true,
- upright,
- upstanding
- provident
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- providing carefully for the future; "wild squirrels are provident"; "a provident father plans for his children's education"
- careful in regard to your own interests; "the prudent use and development of resources"; "wild squirrels are provident" related words >
- Scotch,
- acute,
- anticipant,
- anticipatory,
- apperceptive,
- appercipient,
- argute,
- astute,
- canny,
- careful,
- cautious,
- chary,
- cheeseparing,
- circumspect,
- clairvoyant,
- cogent,
- conserving,
- considerate,
- discerning,
- discreet,
- discriminating,
- discriminative,
- divinatory,
- economic,
- economical,
- economizing,
- enlightened,
- farseeing,
- farsighted,
- forehanded,
- foreknowing,
- foreseeing,
- foresighted,
- forethoughted,
- forethoughtful,
- frugal,
- incisive,
- intuitive,
- judgmatic,
- judicial,
- judicious,
- labor-saving,
- longheaded,
- longsighted,
- money-saving,
- parsimonious,
- penetrating,
- penny-wise,
- perceptive,
- percipient,
- perspicacious,
- perspicuous,
- piercing,
- politic,
- precautional,
- precautionary,
- precautious,
- precognitive,
- precognizant,
- preparative,
- preparatory,
- prepared,
- prerequisite,
- prescient,
- propaedeutic,
- providential,
- provisional,
- prudent,
- prudential,
- ready,
- reflecting,
- reflective,
- sagacious,
- sage,
- saving,
- scrimping,
- shrewd,
- skimping,
- spare,
- sparing,
- thoughtful,
- thrifty,
- time-saving,
- trenchant,
- understanding,
- unwasteful,
- vigilant,
- wary,
- well-advised,
- well-judged,
- wise
- Scotch,
- canny,
- careful,
- chary,
- cheeseparing,
- chinchy,
- chintzy,
- conserving,
- cooling,
- cooling down,
- cooling off,
- curtailment,
- cutback,
- economic,
- economization,
- economizing,
- economy,
- economy of assumption,
- economy of means,
- elegance,
- exiguous,
- forehanded,
- frugal,
- frugal to excess,
- frugality,
- infrequent,
- labor-saving,
- law of parsimony,
- low growth rate,
- meager,
- miserly,
- money-saving,
- niggardly,
- overfrugal,
- parsimonious,
- parsimoniousness,
- parsimony,
- penny-wise,
- penny-wise and pound-foolish,
- piddling,
- pinching,
- poor,
- provident,
- prudent,
- prudential,
- rare,
- reduction of expenses,
- reduction of spending,
- retrenchment,
- saving,
- scamping,
- scant,
- scanty,
- scarce,
- scattered,
- scraping,
- scrimpy,
- seldom met with,
- seldom seen,
- skimping,
- skimpy,
- slim,
- slowdown,
- spare,
- sparing,
- sparse,
- spotty,
- sprinkled,
- stingy,
- stinting,
- thin,
- thrifty,
- tight,
- time-saving,
- too frugal,
- unwasteful
- pawky
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- cunning and sly; "the pawky rich old lady who incessantly scores off her parasitical descendants"- Punch related words >
- Byzantine,
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- acute,
- arch,
- artful,
- astute,
- cagey,
- calculating,
- canny,
- careful,
- cautious,
- circumspect,
- clever,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- cute,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- deliberate,
- designing,
- devious,
- difficult,
- diplomatic,
- discreet,
- feline,
- finical,
- finicking,
- finicky,
- finikin,
- foxy,
- fuss-budgety,
- fussy,
- gingerly,
- guarded,
- guileful,
- hard to please,
- heedful,
- hesitant,
- ingenious,
- insidious,
- inventive,
- judicious,
- knowing,
- leaving out nothing,
- mindful,
- noncommittal,
- on guard,
- overlooking no possibility,
- pernickety,
- persnickety,
- politic,
- prudent,
- queasy,
- ready,
- regardful,
- resourceful,
- safe,
- scheming,
- serpentine,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- slick,
- slippery,
- slow to act,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaky,
- sophistical,
- squeamish,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supple,
- tactical,
- tentative,
- thorough,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- unadventurous,
- uncommunicative,
- undaring,
- unenterprising,
- unprecipitate,
- vulpine,
- wary,
- wily
- allowance,
- bickering,
- boggling,
- calculation,
- canniness,
- captious,
- captiousness,
- care,
- careful consideration,
- carefulness,
- caution,
- cautiousness,
- caviling,
- cession,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- choplogic,
- circumscription,
- circumspection,
- concession,
- deliberate stages,
- deliberateness,
- deliberation,
- discretion,
- dodging,
- equivocation,
- equivocatory,
- evasion,
- evasive,
- exception,
- exemption,
- extenuating circumstances,
- fencing,
- gingerliness,
- grain of salt,
- grant,
- guardedness,
- hairsplitting,
- hedge,
- heed,
- heedfulness,
- hesitation,
- judiciousness,
- limitation,
- logic-chopping,
- mental reservation,
- mindfulness,
- modification,
- nit-picking,
- paltering,
- parrying,
- pawkiness,
- pettifoggery,
- petty,
- picayune,
- prevarication,
- prior consultation,
- prudence,
- prudentialness,
- pussyfooting,
- qualification,
- quibbling,
- regardfulness,
- reservation,
- restriction,
- safeness,
- safety first,
- salvo,
- shifting,
- shuffling,
- sidestepping,
- slowness to act,
- solicitude,
- special case,
- special treatment,
- specialness,
- specification,
- subterfuge,
- tentativeness,
- tergiversation,
- thoroughness,
- trichoschistic,
- trichoschistism,
- trifling,
- trivial,
- uncommunicativeness,
- unprecipitateness,
- waiver
- about the bush,
- around the bush,
- be careful,
- be cautious,
- beat about,
- beat around,
- beg the question,
- bicker,
- boggle,
- cavil,
- choplogic,
- couch,
- crawl,
- creep,
- dodge,
- duck,
- equivocate,
- evade,
- evade the issue,
- fence,
- glide,
- go on tiptoe,
- grovel,
- gumshoe,
- hedge,
- hem and haw,
- hesitate,
- hum and haw,
- inch,
- inch along,
- lay wait,
- lie in wait,
- lurk,
- make haste slowly,
- mystify,
- nightwalk,
- nitpick,
- obscure,
- pad,
- palter,
- parry,
- pick nits,
- prevaricate,
- prowl,
- pull away,
- pull back,
- put off,
- quibble,
- recoil,
- scrabble,
- scramble,
- shadow,
- sheer off,
- shift,
- shift off,
- shrink,
- shuffle,
- shy,
- shy away,
- shy off,
- sidestep,
- sidle,
- skulk,
- slide,
- slink,
- slip,
- snake,
- sneak,
- split hairs,
- stalk,
- steal,
- steal along,
- step aside,
- swerve,
- take it easy,
- tergiversate,
- think twice,
- tippytoe,
- tiptoe,
- walk on eggshells,
- ward off,
- weasel,
- worm,
- worm along
- hesitant
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- lacking decisiveness of character; unable to act or decide quickly or firmly related words >
- afraid,
- agnostic,
- ambiguous,
- ambivalent,
- averse,
- backward,
- bashful,
- boggling,
- canny,
- capricious,
- careful,
- cautious,
- chancy,
- changeable,
- circumspect,
- deliberate,
- demurring,
- dicey,
- diffident,
- discreet,
- dithering,
- doubting,
- equivocal,
- erratic,
- faltering,
- fickle,
- fluctuating,
- gingerly,
- guarded,
- halting,
- heedful,
- hesitating,
- incalculable,
- indecisive,
- indefinite,
- indemonstrable,
- indisposed,
- irresolute,
- jibbing,
- judicious,
- leaving out nothing,
- loath,
- mindful,
- modest,
- noncommittal,
- of two minds,
- on guard,
- overlooking no possibility,
- pause,
- pawky,
- politic,
- polysemous,
- prudent,
- qualmish,
- regardful,
- reluctant,
- safe,
- scrupling,
- scrupulous,
- shilly-shallying,
- shrinking,
- shy,
- skeptical,
- slow to act,
- squeamish,
- stammering,
- sticking,
- stickling,
- straining,
- stuttering,
- tentative,
- thorough,
- timid,
- touch-and-go,
- unaccountable,
- unadventurous,
- uncertain,
- uncommunicative,
- unconfirmable,
- unconvinced,
- undaring,
- undecided,
- undivinable,
- uneager,
- unenterprising,
- unforeseeable,
- unpersuaded,
- unprecipitate,
- unpredictable,
- unprovable,
- unresolved,
- unsettled,
- unsure,
- unverifiable,
- unwilling,
- vacillating,
- vacillatory,
- variable,
- wavering,
- whimsical,
- wobbly
- cheeseparing
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- giving or spending with reluctance; "our cheeseparing administration"; "very close (or near) with his money"; "a penny-pinching miserly old man" related words >
- Scotch,
- canny,
- careful,
- chary,
- cheap,
- chinchy,
- chintzy,
- close,
- closefisted,
- conserving,
- cooling,
- cooling down,
- cooling off,
- curtailment,
- cutback,
- economic,
- economization,
- economizing,
- economy,
- economy of assumption,
- economy of means,
- elegance,
- exiguous,
- forehanded,
- frugal,
- frugal to excess,
- frugality,
- grudging,
- illiberal,
- infrequent,
- labor-saving,
- law of parsimony,
- low growth rate,
- meager,
- mean,
- miserly,
- money-saving,
- niggardly,
- overfrugal,
- parsimonious,
- parsimoniousness,
- parsimony,
- penny-pinching,
- penny-wise,
- penny-wise and pound-foolish,
- penurious,
- piddling,
- pinching,
- poor,
- provident,
- prudent,
- prudential,
- rare,
- reduction of expenses,
- reduction of spending,
- retrenchment,
- saving,
- scamping,
- scant,
- scanty,
- scarce,
- scattered,
- scraping,
- scrimping,
- scrimpy,
- seldom met with,
- seldom seen,
- shabby,
- skimping,
- skimpy,
- slim,
- slowdown,
- spare,
- sparing,
- sparse,
- spotty,
- sprinkled,
- stingy,
- stinting,
- thin,
- thrifty,
- tight,
- tightfisted,
- time-saving,
- too frugal,
- unwasteful
- Herculean,
- abstruse,
- ardent,
- arduous,
- assiduous,
- backbreaking,
- brutal,
- burdensome,
- careful,
- complex,
- critical,
- crushing,
- delicate,
- demanding,
- detailed,
- determined,
- difficile,
- difficult,
- diligent,
- dogged,
- effortful,
- energetic,
- exacting,
- exhausting,
- exhaustive,
- fatiguing,
- fervent,
- forced,
- formidable,
- grueling,
- hairy,
- hard,
- hard-earned,
- hard-fought,
- hard-working,
- hardworking,
- heavy,
- hefty,
- indefatigable,
- industrious,
- intricate,
- jawbreaking,
- killing,
- knotted,
- knotty,
- labored,
- mean,
- never idle,
- no picnic,
- not easy,
- obdurate,
- obstinate,
- onerous,
- operose,
- oppressive,
- overworked,
- painful,
- painstaking,
- persevering,
- persistent,
- ponderous,
- punishing,
- relentless,
- rigorous,
- rough,
- rugged,
- scrupulous,
- sedulous,
- set with thorns,
- severe,
- sleepless,
- spiny,
- steadfast,
- steady,
- steep,
- stiff,
- strained,
- strenuous,
- stubborn,
- taxing,
- thorny,
- thorough,
- ticklish,
- tireless,
- tiring,
- toilsome,
- tough,
- tricky,
- troublesome,
- unflagging,
- unrelenting,
- unremitting,
- unsleeping,
- unsparing,
- untiring,
- unwavering,
- unwearied,
- uphill,
- vehement,
- wearisome,
- wearying,
- wicked,
- zealous
- fastidious
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- giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness; "a fastidious and incisive intellect"; "fastidious about personal cleanliness"
- having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures; "fastidious microorganisms"; "certain highly specialized xerophytes are extremely exacting in their requirements" related words >
- accurate,
- appreciative,
- bleached,
- bright,
- careful,
- censorious,
- choicy,
- choosy,
- civilized,
- clean,
- cleanly,
- conscientious,
- critical,
- cultivated,
- cultured,
- dainty,
- delicate,
- differential,
- difficult,
- dirt-free,
- discriminate,
- discriminating,
- discriminative,
- distinctive,
- distinguishing,
- elegant,
- exact,
- exacting,
- fair,
- fine,
- finical,
- finicky,
- fresh,
- fussy,
- graceful,
- gracile,
- gracious,
- hypercritical,
- immaculate,
- kosher,
- meticulous,
- nice,
- nit-picking,
- nonpolluted,
- of cleanly habits,
- overconscientious,
- overscrupulous,
- particular,
- perfectionistic,
- picky,
- polished,
- precise,
- precisianistic,
- priggish,
- prudish,
- punctilious,
- punctual,
- pure,
- puristic,
- puritanic,
- refined,
- religious,
- ritually pure,
- scrupulous,
- selective,
- sensitive,
- shiny,
- smut-free,
- smutless,
- sophisticated,
- spotless,
- squeamish,
- stainless,
- strict,
- subtle,
- sweet,
- tactful,
- tahar,
- tender-conscienced,
- tubbed,
- unadulterated,
- unbesmirched,
- unblemished,
- unblotted,
- undefiled,
- unmuddied,
- unpolluted,
- unsmirched,
- unsmudged,
- unsoiled,
- unspotted,
- unstained,
- unsullied,
- untainted,
- untarnished,
- well-scrubbed,
- well-washed,
- white,
- whitened
- Argus-eyed,
- acute,
- agog,
- alert,
- all ears,
- all eyes,
- all ready,
- all set,
- armed,
- armed and ready,
- attentive,
- aux aguets,
- avid,
- booted and spurred,
- briefed,
- careful,
- cautious,
- chary,
- circumspect,
- coached,
- cocked,
- covering,
- custodial,
- defensive,
- eager,
- eagle-eyed,
- equipped,
- familiarized,
- fostering,
- good and ready,
- groomed,
- guarded,
- guardian,
- guarding,
- hawk-eyed,
- immunizing,
- in arms,
- in battle array,
- in readiness,
- in the saddle,
- informed,
- keen,
- keen-eyed,
- lidless,
- loaded,
- loaded for bear,
- mature,
- mobilized,
- observant,
- on guard,
- on the alert,
- on the lookout,
- on the mark,
- on the watch,
- open-eyed,
- parental,
- planned,
- prearranged,
- prepared,
- prepared and ready,
- prepped,
- preventive,
- primed,
- prophylactic,
- protecting,
- protective,
- provided,
- prudent,
- psyched up,
- ready,
- ready for anything,
- ripe,
- safeguarding,
- screening,
- set,
- sharp,
- sharp-eyed,
- sheltering,
- shielding,
- sleepless,
- tutelary,
- unsleeping,
- up in arms,
- wakeful,
- wary,
- watchful,
- well-prepared,
- wide-awake,
- with open eyes
- discreet
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- marked by prudence or modesty and wise self-restraint; "his trusted discreet aide"; "a discreet, finely wrought gold necklace" related words >
- Olympian,
- aloof,
- backward,
- bashful,
- blank,
- calculating,
- canny,
- careful,
- cautious,
- chary,
- chilled,
- chilly,
- circumspect,
- close,
- closemouthed,
- cold,
- considerate,
- constrained,
- controlled,
- cool,
- dark,
- deliberate,
- detached,
- diplomatic,
- discriminating,
- discriminative,
- distant,
- dry,
- enlightened,
- evasive,
- expressionless,
- forbidding,
- frigid,
- frosty,
- gingerly,
- guarded,
- heedful,
- hesitant,
- icy,
- impassive,
- impersonal,
- inaccessible,
- introverted,
- judgmatic,
- judicial,
- judicious,
- leaving out nothing,
- mindful,
- moderate,
- modest,
- noncommittal,
- offish,
- on guard,
- overlooking no possibility,
- pawky,
- politic,
- provident,
- prudent,
- prudential,
- reasonable,
- reflecting,
- reflective,
- regardful,
- remote,
- removed,
- repressed,
- reserved,
- restrained,
- reticent,
- retiring,
- safe,
- secret,
- secretive,
- shifty,
- shrinking,
- simple,
- slow to act,
- standoff,
- standoffish,
- subdued,
- suppressed,
- tactful,
- temperate,
- tentative,
- thorough,
- thoughtful,
- unadorned,
- unadventurous,
- unaffable,
- unapproachable,
- uncommunicative,
- uncongenial,
- undaring,
- undemonstrative,
- unelaborate,
- unenterprising,
- unexcessive,
- unexpansive,
- unextreme,
- ungenial,
- unostentatious,
- unprecipitate,
- unpretentious,
- wary,
- watchful,
- well-advised,
- well-judged,
- withdrawn
- acquainted,
- advertent,
- agog,
- alert,
- alive,
- alive to,
- all ears,
- all eyes,
- all-knowing,
- apperceptive,
- appercipient,
- appreciative of,
- apprehending,
- apprehensive,
- apprised,
- apprised of,
- assiduous,
- attentive,
- au courant,
- au fait,
- awake,
- awake to,
- aware of,
- awash,
- behind the curtain,
- behind the scenes,
- brimful,
- brimming,
- careful,
- chock-full,
- cognizant,
- cognizant of,
- comprehending,
- concentrated,
- conscious,
- conscious of,
- conversant,
- crammed,
- crowded,
- diligent,
- earnest,
- enlightened,
- finical,
- finicking,
- finicky,
- heedful,
- hep,
- hep to,
- hip,
- impressible,
- impressionable,
- impressive,
- in the know,
- in the secret,
- informed,
- informed of,
- insightful,
- intelligent,
- intense,
- intent,
- intentive,
- jammed,
- knowing,
- knowledgeable,
- let into,
- loaded,
- meticulous,
- mindful,
- mindful of,
- nice,
- niggling,
- no stranger to,
- observant,
- observing,
- omniscient,
- on the ball,
- on the job,
- on to,
- open-eared,
- open-eyed,
- openmouthed,
- packed,
- perceptive,
- percipient,
- perspicacious,
- posted,
- prehensile,
- privy to,
- receptive,
- regardful,
- sagacious,
- seized of,
- sensible,
- sensible of,
- sensible to,
- sensile,
- sensitive,
- sensitive to,
- sentient,
- shrewd,
- streetwise,
- stuffed,
- susceptible,
- susceptive,
- undeceived,
- understanding,
- ware,
- watchful,
- wise,
- wise to,
- witting
- acclamatory,
- accommodating,
- accommodative,
- active,
- admiring,
- advertent,
- agog,
- agreeable,
- alert,
- all ears,
- all eyes,
- appreciative,
- approbatory,
- assiduous,
- attentive,
- aware,
- canny,
- cap in hand,
- careful,
- cautious,
- ceremonious,
- circumspect,
- commendatory,
- complaisant,
- compliant,
- complimentary,
- concentrated,
- conforming,
- conscientious,
- conscious,
- considerate,
- constant,
- courteous,
- curious,
- deferential,
- deliberate,
- delicate,
- devoted,
- devout,
- diligent,
- discreet,
- duteous,
- dutiful,
- earnest,
- encomiastic,
- eulogistic,
- faithful,
- finical,
- finicking,
- finicky,
- flattering,
- gingerly,
- guarded,
- heedful,
- helpful,
- hesitant,
- honorific,
- indulgent,
- intense,
- intent,
- intentive,
- judicious,
- laudatory,
- leaving out nothing,
- lenient,
- loving,
- loyal,
- meticulous,
- mindful,
- mindful of others,
- nice,
- niggling,
- noncommittal,
- obliging,
- observant,
- observing,
- on guard,
- on the ball,
- on the job,
- open-eared,
- open-eyed,
- openmouthed,
- overlooking no possibility,
- panegyric,
- pawky,
- politic,
- practicing,
- prudent,
- punctilious,
- punctual,
- respectful,
- safe,
- scrupulous,
- slow to act,
- solicitous,
- tactful,
- tender,
- tentative,
- thorough,
- thoughtful,
- tolerant,
- true,
- unadventurous,
- uncommunicative,
- undaring,
- unenterprising,
- unprecipitate,
- watchful
- loving
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- feeling or showing love and affection; "loving parents"; "loving glances" related words >
- Christian,
- Christlike,
- Christly,
- adoring,
- affectionate,
- all-knowing,
- all-powerful,
- all-seeing,
- all-wise,
- almighty,
- amatory,
- amorous,
- ardent,
- attached,
- attentive,
- benevolent,
- benign,
- benignant,
- bound,
- boundless,
- brotherly,
- careful,
- caring,
- cautious,
- changeless,
- circumspect,
- compassionate,
- conjugal,
- considerate,
- cordial,
- creating,
- creative,
- curious,
- dear,
- decent,
- demonstrative,
- devoted,
- doting,
- enamored,
- erotic,
- eternal,
- eternally the same,
- everlasting,
- faithful,
- fervent,
- filial,
- fond,
- fraternal,
- glorious,
- good,
- gracious,
- hallowed,
- heedful,
- highest,
- holy,
- human,
- humane,
- husbandly,
- immortal,
- immutable,
- impassioned,
- infatuated,
- infinite,
- just,
- kind,
- kindhearted,
- kindly,
- kindly-disposed,
- languishing,
- limitless,
- lovelorn,
- lovesick,
- lovesome,
- luminous,
- majestic,
- making,
- maternal,
- melting,
- merciful,
- mindful,
- nice,
- numinous,
- omnipotent,
- omnipresent,
- omniscient,
- one,
- parental,
- passionate,
- paternal,
- permanent,
- perpetual,
- radiant,
- regardful,
- romantic,
- sacred,
- sentimental,
- shaping,
- soft,
- softhearted,
- solicitous,
- sovereign,
- supreme,
- sympathetic,
- sympathizing,
- tender,
- tenderhearted,
- thoughtful,
- timeless,
- ubiquitous,
- unbounded,
- unchanging,
- undefined,
- unlimited,
- uxorious,
- warm,
- warmhearted,
- wifely
- curious
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- eager to investigate and learn or learn more (sometimes about others' concerns); "a curious child is a teacher's delight"; "a trap door that made me curious"; "curious investigators"; "traffic was slowed by curious rubberneckers"; "curious about the neighbor's doings"
- beyond or deviating from the usual or expected; "a curious hybrid accent"; "her speech has a funny twang"; "they have some funny ideas about war"; "had an odd name"; "the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves"; "something definitely queer about this town"; "what a rum fellow"; "singular behavior"
- having curiosity aroused; eagerly interested in learning more; "a trap door that made me curious" related words >
- aberrant,
- abnormal,
- absurd,
- agape,
- agog,
- all agog,
- analytical,
- attentive,
- attracted,
- barmy,
- bizarre,
- burning with curiosity,
- careful,
- catechistic,
- cathectic,
- cautious,
- circumspect,
- concerned,
- considerate,
- consumed with curiosity,
- deviant,
- deviate,
- eccentric,
- enthusiastic,
- erratic,
- examining,
- excited,
- exotic,
- extraordinary,
- fascinated,
- freaked out,
- freakish,
- freaky,
- funny,
- ghoulish,
- gossipy,
- grotesque,
- heedful,
- impertinent,
- inquiring,
- inquisitional,
- inquisitive,
- inquisitorial,
- interested,
- interfering,
- intermeddling,
- interrogational,
- interrogative,
- interrogatory,
- intrusive,
- investigative,
- irregular,
- itchy,
- keen on,
- kinky,
- kooky,
- loving,
- meddlesome,
- meddling,
- mindful,
- morbid,
- morbidly curious,
- nosy,
- nuts,
- nutty,
- odd,
- oddball,
- off,
- off the wall,
- offbeat,
- open-eyed,
- openmouthed,
- out,
- outlandish,
- outrageous,
- outre,
- overcurious,
- passing strange,
- passionate,
- peculiar,
- piqued,
- pixilated,
- prurient,
- prying,
- quaint,
- queer,
- querying,
- questioning,
- quizzical,
- quizzing,
- regardful,
- scopophiliac,
- scrutinizing,
- searching,
- singular,
- snooping,
- snoopy,
- solicitous,
- strange,
- supercurious,
- tantalized,
- tender,
- thoughtful,
- tickled,
- titillated,
- turned-on,
- unconventional,
- unearthly,
- unusual,
- voyeuristic,
- weird,
- wondrous strange
- circumspect
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- heedful of potential consequences; "circumspect actions"; "physicians are now more circumspect about recommending its use"; "a discreet investor" related words >
- ambling,
- attentive,
- calculating,
- canny,
- careful,
- cautious,
- chary,
- claudicant,
- considerate,
- crawling,
- creeping,
- creeping like snail,
- curious,
- deliberate,
- discreet,
- discriminating,
- discriminative,
- easy,
- enlightened,
- faltering,
- flagging,
- foot-dragging,
- gentle,
- gingerly,
- gradual,
- guarded,
- halting,
- heedful,
- hesitant,
- hobbled,
- hobbling,
- idle,
- indolent,
- judgmatic,
- judicial,
- judicious,
- languid,
- languorous,
- lazy,
- leaving out nothing,
- leisurely,
- limping,
- loving,
- lumbering,
- meticulous,
- mindful,
- moderate,
- noncommittal,
- on guard,
- overlooking no possibility,
- pawky,
- poking,
- poky,
- politic,
- provident,
- prudent,
- prudential,
- punctilious,
- reflecting,
- reflective,
- regardful,
- relaxed,
- reluctant,
- safe,
- sauntering,
- scrupulous,
- shuffling,
- slack,
- slothful,
- slow,
- slow as death,
- slow as molasses,
- slow as slow,
- slow to act,
- slow-crawling,
- slow-foot,
- slow-going,
- slow-legged,
- slow-moving,
- slow-paced,
- slow-poky,
- slow-running,
- slow-sailing,
- slow-stepped,
- sluggish,
- snail-paced,
- snaillike,
- solicitous,
- staggering,
- strolling,
- tender,
- tentative,
- thorough,
- thoughtful,
- toddling,
- tortoiselike,
- tottering,
- trudging,
- turtlelike,
- unadventurous,
- uncommunicative,
- undaring,
- unenterprising,
- unhurried,
- unprecipitate,
- waddling,
- wary,
- well-advised,
- well-judged
- assiduous
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- marked by care and persistent effort; "her assiduous attempts to learn French"; "assiduous research"; "sedulous pursuit of legal and moral principles" related words >
- advertent,
- agog,
- alert,
- all ears,
- all eyes,
- ardent,
- attentive,
- aware,
- careful,
- concentrated,
- conscious,
- constant,
- continuing,
- diligent,
- dogged,
- earnest,
- elaborate,
- enduring,
- energetic,
- faithful,
- fervent,
- finical,
- finicking,
- finicky,
- hard,
- hardworking,
- heedful,
- immutable,
- inalterable,
- indefatigable,
- indomitable,
- industrious,
- insistent,
- intense,
- intent,
- intentive,
- invincible,
- laborious,
- lasting,
- loyal,
- meticulous,
- mindful,
- never idle,
- never-tiring,
- nice,
- niggling,
- observant,
- observing,
- obstinate,
- on the ball,
- on the job,
- open-eared,
- open-eyed,
- openmouthed,
- operose,
- painstaking,
- patient,
- patient as Job,
- permanent,
- perseverant,
- persevering,
- persistent,
- persisting,
- pertinacious,
- plodding,
- plugging,
- preoccupied,
- rapt,
- regardful,
- relentless,
- resolute,
- sedulous,
- single-minded,
- sleepless,
- slogging,
- stable,
- steadfast,
- steady,
- strenuous,
- stubborn,
- tenacious,
- thorough,
- thoroughgoing,
- tireless,
- unabating,
- unconquerable,
- undaunted,
- undiscouraged,
- undrooping,
- unfailing,
- unfaltering,
- unflagging,
- unflinching,
- unintermitting,
- uninterrupted,
- unnodding,
- unrelaxing,
- unrelenting,
- unremitting,
- unsleeping,
- unsparing,
- unswerving,
- untiring,
- unwavering,
- unwearied,
- unwearying,
- unwinking,
- utterly attentive,
- vehement,
- watchful,
- weariless,
- zealous
- Lenten,
- Scotch,
- Spartan,
- abstemious,
- ascetic,
- austere,
- budget,
- canny,
- careful,
- chary,
- cheap,
- cheeseparing,
- conservational,
- conservative,
- conserving,
- discreet,
- dwarfed,
- dwarfish,
- easy,
- economic,
- economical,
- economizing,
- economy,
- exiguous,
- forehanded,
- frugal to excess,
- impoverished,
- inexpensive,
- jejune,
- labor-saving,
- lean,
- limited,
- low,
- low-priced,
- manageable,
- meager,
- mean,
- measured,
- meticulous,
- miserly,
- moderate,
- modest,
- money-saving,
- narrow,
- negligible,
- niggardly,
- nominal,
- overfrugal,
- paltry,
- parsimonious,
- penny-pinching,
- penny-wise,
- penny-wise and pound-foolish,
- penurious,
- piddling,
- poor,
- preserving,
- provident,
- prudent,
- prudential,
- puny,
- reasonable,
- restrained,
- saving,
- scamping,
- scant,
- scanty,
- scrawny,
- scrimp,
- scrimping,
- scrimpy,
- sensible,
- shabby,
- shoddy,
- skimp,
- skimping,
- skimpy,
- slender,
- slight,
- slim,
- small,
- sober,
- spare,
- sparing,
- starvation,
- stingy,
- stinted,
- stinting,
- straitened,
- stunted,
- subsistence,
- temperate,
- thin,
- thrifty,
- tight-fisted,
- time-saving,
- token,
- too frugal,
- unexpensive,
- unnourishing,
- unnutritious,
- unwasteful,
- wary,
- watered,
- watery,
- within means,
- worth the money
- Byzantine,
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- Scotch,
- acute,
- adroit,
- arch,
- artful,
- astute,
- cagey,
- calculating,
- careful,
- cautious,
- chary,
- cheeseparing,
- circumspect,
- clever,
- conserving,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- cute,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- deliberate,
- designing,
- devious,
- dexterous,
- diplomatic,
- discreet,
- economic,
- economical,
- economizing,
- feline,
- forehanded,
- foxy,
- frugal,
- gingerly,
- guarded,
- guileful,
- heedful,
- hep,
- hesitant,
- ingenious,
- insidious,
- inventive,
- judicious,
- knowing,
- labor-saving,
- leaving out nothing,
- mindful,
- money-saving,
- nimble-witted,
- noncommittal,
- on guard,
- overlooking no possibility,
- parsimonious,
- pawky,
- penny-wise,
- politic,
- provident,
- prudent,
- prudential,
- quick,
- quick-witted,
- ready,
- regardful,
- resourceful,
- safe,
- saving,
- scheming,
- scrimping,
- serpentine,
- sharp,
- sharp-witted,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- skimping,
- slick,
- slim,
- slippery,
- slow to act,
- sly,
- smart,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaky,
- sophistical,
- spare,
- sparing,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supple,
- tactical,
- tentative,
- thorough,
- thrifty,
- time-saving,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- unadventurous,
- uncommunicative,
- undaring,
- unenterprising,
- unprecipitate,
- unwasteful,
- vulpine,
- wary,
- wily
- Scotch,
- canny,
- careful,
- chary,
- cheeseparing,
- chinchy,
- chintzy,
- conserving,
- cooling,
- cooling down,
- cooling off,
- culpably negligent,
- curtailment,
- cutback,
- derelict,
- economic,
- economization,
- economizing,
- economy,
- economy of assumption,
- economy of means,
- elegance,
- exiguous,
- forehanded,
- frugal,
- frugal to excess,
- frugality,
- inadvertent,
- inattentive,
- infrequent,
- labor-saving,
- laissez-faire,
- law of parsimony,
- lax,
- loose,
- low growth rate,
- meager,
- miserly,
- money-saving,
- neglectful,
- neglecting,
- negligent,
- niggardly,
- noninterfering,
- nonrestrictive,
- off-guard,
- overfrugal,
- overly permissive,
- parsimonious,
- parsimoniousness,
- parsimony,
- penny-wise,
- penny-wise and pound-foolish,
- permissive,
- piddling,
- pinching,
- poor,
- procrastinating,
- provident,
- prudent,
- prudential,
- rare,
- reduction of expenses,
- reduction of spending,
- relaxed,
- remiss,
- retrenchment,
- saving,
- scamping,
- scant,
- scanty,
- scarce,
- scattered,
- scraping,
- scrimping,
- scrimpy,
- seldom met with,
- seldom seen,
- skimpy,
- slack,
- slighting,
- slim,
- slowdown,
- slurring,
- spare,
- sparing,
- sparse,
- spotty,
- sprinkled,
- stingy,
- stinting,
- thin,
- thrifty,
- tight,
- time-saving,
- too frugal,
- uncircumspect,
- unguarded,
- unrigorous,
- unwary,
- unwasteful,
- unwatchful
- reluctant
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- not eager; "foreigners stubbornly uneager to accept our ways"; "fresh from college and uneager for the moment to marry him"; "reluctant to help"
- unwilling to become involved; "they were usually reluctant to socialize"; "reluctant to help" related words >
- afraid,
- ambling,
- antagonistic,
- apathetic,
- averse,
- backward,
- balking,
- balky,
- calculating,
- careful,
- cautious,
- chary,
- circumspect,
- claudicant,
- complaining,
- crawling,
- creeping,
- creeping like snail,
- deliberate,
- dilatory,
- disinclined,
- disputatious,
- disputing,
- dissentient,
- dissenting,
- easy,
- faltering,
- flagging,
- foot-dragging,
- fractious,
- gentle,
- gradual,
- grudging,
- halting,
- hesitant,
- hobbled,
- hobbling,
- idle,
- indifferent,
- indisposed,
- indolent,
- laggard,
- languid,
- languorous,
- lazy,
- leery,
- leisurely,
- limping,
- loath,
- lumbering,
- moderate,
- noncooperative,
- objecting,
- obstructive,
- on the barricades,
- opposed,
- perfunctory,
- poking,
- poky,
- proof against,
- protesting,
- rebellious,
- recalcitrant,
- refractory,
- relaxed,
- renitent,
- repellent,
- resistant,
- resisting,
- resistive,
- restive,
- retardant,
- retardative,
- sauntering,
- shuffling,
- shy,
- slack,
- slothful,
- slow,
- slow as death,
- slow as molasses,
- slow as slow,
- slow to,
- slow-crawling,
- slow-foot,
- slow-going,
- slow-legged,
- slow-moving,
- slow-paced,
- slow-poky,
- slow-running,
- slow-sailing,
- slow-stepped,
- sluggish,
- snail-paced,
- snaillike,
- staggering,
- strolling,
- tentative,
- toddling,
- tortoiselike,
- tottering,
- trudging,
- turtlelike,
- uncooperative,
- uneager,
- unenthusiastic,
- unhurried,
- unsubmissive,
- unwilling,
- unyielding,
- unzealous,
- up in arms,
- waddling,
- wary,
- withstanding
- thoughtful
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- considerate of the feelings or well-being of others
- having intellectual depth; "a deeply thoughtful essay"
- acting with or showing thought and good sense; "a sensible young man"
- exhibiting or characterized by careful thought; "a thoughtful paper" related words >
- accommodating,
- accommodative,
- affable,
- agreeable,
- analytical,
- attentive,
- brainy,
- brooding,
- calculating,
- careful,
- caring,
- cautious,
- charitable,
- circumspect,
- civil,
- cogitative,
- cognitive,
- compassionate,
- complaisant,
- concentrating,
- concentrative,
- conceptive,
- conceptual,
- conceptualized,
- considerate,
- contemplating,
- contemplative,
- courteous,
- curious,
- decorous,
- deep,
- deferential,
- deliberating,
- deliberative,
- delicate,
- demure,
- discreet,
- discriminating,
- discriminative,
- earnest,
- engrossed,
- enlightened,
- excogitating,
- fair,
- formal,
- frowning,
- graceful,
- gracious,
- grave,
- grim,
- grim-faced,
- grim-visaged,
- heedful,
- helpful,
- ideative,
- indulgent,
- intellectual,
- introspective,
- judgmatic,
- judicial,
- judicious,
- kind,
- kindly,
- lenient,
- logical,
- long-faced,
- loving,
- meditating,
- meditative,
- melancholy,
- mental,
- mindful,
- mindful of others,
- museful,
- musing,
- noetic,
- obliging,
- pensive,
- polite,
- politic,
- pondering,
- prehensive,
- provident,
- prudent,
- prudential,
- rapt,
- rational,
- reflecting,
- reflective,
- regardful,
- respectful,
- ruminant,
- ruminating,
- ruminative,
- sedate,
- serious,
- sober,
- sober-minded,
- sobersided,
- solemn,
- solicitous,
- somber,
- speculative,
- staid,
- stone-faced,
- straight-faced,
- studious,
- sympathetic,
- tactful,
- tender,
- thinking,
- thought,
- tolerant,
- unsmiling,
- unthoughtful,
- urbane,
- wary,
- weighty,
- well-advised,
- well-judged,
- wistful
- careful
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- exercising caution or showing care or attention; "they were careful when crossing the busy street"; "be careful to keep her shoes clean"; "did very careful research"; "careful art restorers"; "careful of the rights of others"; "careful about one's behavior"
- with care and dignity; "walking at the same measured pace"; "with all deliberate speed"
- mindful of the future in spending money; "careful with money"
- cautiously attentive; "careful of her feelings"; "heedful of his father's advice"
- full of cares or anxiety; "Thou art careful and troubled about many things"-Luke 10.41 related words >
- Scotch,
- accurate,
- advertent,
- agog,
- alert,
- all ears,
- all eyes,
- assiduous,
- attentive,
- aware,
- calculating,
- canny,
- cautious,
- chary,
- cheeseparing,
- circumspect,
- concentrated,
- conscientious,
- conscionable,
- conscious,
- conserving,
- considerate,
- critical,
- curious,
- deliberate,
- diligent,
- discreet,
- discriminating,
- discriminative,
- duteous,
- dutiful,
- earnest,
- economic,
- economizing,
- enlightened,
- exact,
- fastidious,
- finical,
- finicking,
- finicky,
- forehanded,
- foresighted,
- frugal,
- fussy,
- gingerly,
- guarded,
- heedful,
- hesitant,
- intense,
- intent,
- intentive,
- judgmatic,
- judicial,
- judicious,
- labor-saving,
- leaving out nothing,
- loving,
- meticulous,
- mindful,
- money-saving,
- nice,
- niggling,
- noncommittal,
- observant,
- observing,
- on guard,
- on the ball,
- on the job,
- open-eared,
- open-eyed,
- openmouthed,
- overconscientious,
- overlooking no possibility,
- overscrupulous,
- painstaking,
- parsimonious,
- particular,
- pawky,
- penny-wise,
- politic,
- precise,
- provident,
- prudent,
- prudential,
- punctilious,
- punctual,
- reflecting,
- reflective,
- regardful,
- religious,
- safe,
- saving,
- scrimping,
- scrupulous,
- skimping,
- slow to act,
- solicitous,
- spare,
- sparing,
- strict,
- studied,
- systematic,
- tender,
- tender-conscienced,
- tentative,
- thorough,
- thoughtful,
- thrifty,
- time-saving,
- unadventurous,
- uncommunicative,
- undaring,
- unenterprising,
- unprecipitate,
- unwasteful,
- vigilant,
- wary,
- watchful,
- well-advised,
- well-judged
- Mickey Mouse,
- adverse criticism,
- advertent,
- agog,
- alert,
- all ears,
- all eyes,
- animadversion,
- annoying,
- aspersion,
- assiduous,
- attentive,
- aware,
- bad notices,
- bad press,
- captious,
- captiousness,
- careful,
- carping,
- cavil,
- caviling,
- censoriousness,
- concentrated,
- conscious,
- critical,
- criticism,
- cynical,
- diligent,
- earnest,
- exception,
- faultfinding,
- finical,
- finicking,
- finicky,
- flak,
- frivolous,
- fussy,
- hairsplitting,
- heedful,
- hit,
- home thrust,
- hostile criticism,
- hypercritical,
- hypercriticalness,
- hypercriticism,
- imputation,
- inconsequential,
- insignificant,
- intense,
- intent,
- intentive,
- irksome,
- irritating,
- jerkwater,
- knock,
- measly,
- meticulous,
- mindful,
- nagging,
- nice,
- niggle,
- nit,
- nit-picking,
- nugatory,
- obloquy,
- observant,
- observing,
- on the ball,
- on the job,
- one-horse,
- open-eared,
- open-eyed,
- openmouthed,
- overcritical,
- overcriticalness,
- paltry,
- peanut,
- pestering,
- pettifogging,
- petty,
- picayune,
- picayunish,
- piddling,
- piffling,
- poky,
- priggishness,
- punk,
- puny,
- quibble,
- quibbling,
- rap,
- reflection,
- regardful,
- reproachfulness,
- slam,
- small-beer,
- small-time,
- stricture,
- swipe,
- taking exception,
- tinhorn,
- trichoschistic,
- trichoschistism,
- trifling,
- trivial,
- troublesome,
- two-bit,
- two-by-four,
- ultracritical,
- unimportant,
- vexatious,
- vexing,
- watchful,
- worrisome,
- worrying
- Italian hand,
- acuteness,
- animal cunning,
- art,
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- astuteness,
- austerity,
- austerity program,
- cageyness,
- calculation,
- callidity,
- care,
- careful consideration,
- carefulness,
- caution,
- cautiousness,
- chariness,
- circumspection,
- cleverness,
- craft,
- craftiness,
- cunning,
- cunningness,
- deliberate stages,
- deliberateness,
- deliberation,
- deviousness,
- discreetness,
- discretion,
- economic planning,
- economicalness,
- economy,
- economy of means,
- false economy,
- fine Italian hand,
- finesse,
- forehandedness,
- foresight,
- forethought,
- foxiness,
- frugality,
- frugalness,
- gamesmanship,
- gingerliness,
- good management,
- guardedness,
- guile,
- guilefulness,
- hedge,
- hedging,
- heed,
- heedfulness,
- hesitation,
- husbandry,
- ingeniousness,
- insidiousness,
- inventiveness,
- judiciousness,
- low cunning,
- management,
- mindfulness,
- one-upmanship,
- parsimoniousness,
- parsimony,
- pawkiness,
- precaution,
- prior consultation,
- providence,
- prudence,
- prudential administration,
- prudentialness,
- readiness,
- regardfulness,
- resourcefulness,
- safeness,
- safety first,
- satanic cunning,
- sharpness,
- shiftiness,
- shrewdness,
- slickness,
- slipperiness,
- slowness to act,
- slyness,
- sneakiness,
- solicitude,
- sophistry,
- sparingness,
- stealth,
- stealthiness,
- subtility,
- subtilty,
- subtleness,
- subtlety,
- suppleness,
- tentativeness,
- thoroughness,
- thrift,
- thriftiness,
- tight purse strings,
- trickiness,
- uncommunicativeness,
- unprecipitateness,
- unwastefulness,
- wariness,
- wiles,
- wiliness,
- wit
- concentrated
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- gathered together or made less diffuse; "their concentrated efforts"; "his concentrated attention"; "concentrated study"; "a narrow thread of concentrated ore"
- of or relating to a solution whose dilution has been reduced
- intensely focused; "her concentrated passion held them at bay" related words >
- advertent,
- agog,
- alert,
- all ears,
- all eyes,
- assiduous,
- attentive,
- aware,
- axial,
- careful,
- centermost,
- central,
- centralized,
- centric,
- centroidal,
- centrosymmetric,
- clamped,
- close,
- close-knit,
- close-textured,
- close-woven,
- compact,
- compacted,
- complete,
- compressed,
- concrete,
- condensed,
- congested,
- conscious,
- consolidated,
- constricted,
- contracted,
- crammed,
- crammed full,
- cramped,
- crowded,
- dense,
- desperate,
- diligent,
- earnest,
- entire,
- exclusive,
- exquisite,
- fierce,
- finical,
- finicking,
- finicky,
- firm,
- fixed,
- full-bodied,
- furious,
- geocentric,
- gluey,
- hard,
- heavy,
- heedful,
- impenetrable,
- impermeable,
- intense,
- intent,
- intentive,
- jam-packed,
- jammed,
- key,
- knitted,
- lusty,
- massive,
- meticulous,
- middle,
- middlemost,
- midmost,
- mindful,
- nice,
- niggling,
- nipped,
- nonporous,
- observant,
- observing,
- omphalic,
- on the ball,
- on the job,
- open-eared,
- open-eyed,
- openmouthed,
- packed,
- pinched,
- pinched-in,
- pivotal,
- potent,
- puckered,
- pursed,
- regardful,
- robust,
- serried,
- solid,
- solidified,
- squeezed,
- strangled,
- strangulated,
- substantial,
- terrible,
- thick,
- thick-growing,
- thickset,
- total,
- umbilical,
- undistracted,
- undivided,
- unswerving,
- vehement,
- vicious,
- violent,
- viscid,
- viscose,
- viscous,
- wasp-waisted,
- watchful,
- wrinkled
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