Related Words:
- timid
collapse - people who are fearful and cautious; "whitewater rafting is not for the timid"
- showing fear and lack of confidence related words >
- afraid,
- apprehensive,
- bashful,
- cautious,
- chicken,
- chickenhearted,
- confused,
- conscious,
- coward,
- cowardly,
- cowed,
- coy,
- craven,
- daunted,
- demure,
- demurring,
- diffident,
- dismayed,
- fainthearted,
- faltering,
- fearful,
- fearing,
- fearsome,
- frightened,
- funking,
- funky,
- goosy,
- gutless,
- henhearted,
- hesitant,
- hesitating,
- humble,
- in fear,
- inarticulate,
- intimidated,
- jibbing,
- jumpy,
- lily-livered,
- milk-livered,
- milksoppish,
- milksoppy,
- modest,
- mousy,
- nervous,
- overtimid,
- overtimorous,
- panic-prone,
- panicky,
- pigeonhearted,
- pusillanimous,
- rabbity,
- retiring,
- scared,
- scary,
- scrupling,
- self-conscious,
- shaky,
- shamefaced,
- shamefast,
- shilly-shallying,
- shivery,
- shrinking,
- shy,
- sissified,
- sissy,
- skittery,
- skittish,
- soft,
- stammering,
- startlish,
- sticking,
- stickling,
- straining,
- tentative,
- timorous,
- trembling,
- tremulous,
- trepidant,
- trigger-happy,
- unassertive,
- unassured,
- unmanly,
- unmanned,
- weak,
- weak-kneed,
- weakhearted,
- white-livered,
- yellow
- afraid
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- filled with regret or concern; used often to soften an unpleasant statement; "I'm afraid I won't be able to come"; "he was afraid he would have to let her go"; "I'm afraid you're wrong"
- feeling worry or concern or insecurity; "She was afraid that I might be embarrassed"; "terribly afraid of offending someone"; "I am afraid we have witnessed only the first phase of the conflict"
- having feelings of aversion or unwillingness; "afraid of hard work"; "afraid to show emotion" related words >
- abulic,
- afeared,
- aghast,
- anxious,
- apologetic,
- apprehensive,
- averse,
- backward,
- cautious,
- chary,
- chicken,
- chickenhearted,
- coward,
- cowardly,
- cowed,
- craven,
- daunted,
- dismayed,
- edgy,
- faint,
- fainthearted,
- fear-struck,
- feared,
- fearful,
- feeble,
- feebleminded,
- frail,
- frightened,
- fritter,
- funking,
- funky,
- haunted with fear,
- henhearted,
- hesitant,
- indisposed,
- infirm,
- intimidated,
- invertebrate,
- jittery,
- jumpy,
- lily-livered,
- loath,
- milk-livered,
- milksoppish,
- milksoppy,
- mousy,
- nervous,
- on edge,
- overtimid,
- overtimorous,
- panic-prone,
- panic-stricken,
- panicky,
- pigeonhearted,
- pliable,
- pusillanimous,
- rabbity,
- regretful,
- reluctant,
- rueful,
- scared,
- scared to death,
- scary,
- shrinking,
- shy,
- sissified,
- sissy,
- skittish,
- soft,
- sorry,
- spineless,
- spooked,
- terrified,
- timid,
- timorous,
- uneager,
- unhappy,
- unmanly,
- unmanned,
- unwilling,
- wary,
- weak,
- weak-kneed,
- weak-minded,
- weak-willed,
- weakhearted,
- white-livered,
- yellow
- faltering
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- unsteady in speech or action related words >
- ambling,
- balbutient,
- bashful,
- boggling,
- cautious,
- circumspect,
- claudicant,
- crawling,
- creeping,
- creeping like snail,
- deliberate,
- demurring,
- diffident,
- easy,
- flagging,
- foot-dragging,
- gentle,
- gradual,
- halting,
- hesitant,
- hesitating,
- hobbled,
- hobbling,
- idle,
- indecisive,
- indolent,
- irresolute,
- jibbing,
- languid,
- languorous,
- lazy,
- leisurely,
- limping,
- lukewarm,
- lumbering,
- moderate,
- modest,
- poking,
- poky,
- qualmish,
- relaxed,
- reluctant,
- sauntering,
- scrupling,
- scrupulous,
- shilly-shallying,
- shrinking,
- shuffling,
- shy,
- slack,
- slothful,
- slow,
- slow as death,
- slow as molasses,
- slow as slow,
- slow-crawling,
- slow-foot,
- slow-going,
- slow-legged,
- slow-moving,
- slow-paced,
- slow-poky,
- slow-running,
- slow-sailing,
- slow-stepped,
- sluggish,
- snail-paced,
- snaillike,
- squeamish,
- staggering,
- stammering,
- sticking,
- stickling,
- straining,
- strolling,
- stumbling,
- stuttering,
- tentative,
- timid,
- toddling,
- tortoiselike,
- tottering,
- trudging,
- turtlelike,
- uncertain,
- unhurried,
- vacillatory,
- waddling,
- wavering,
- wobbly
- 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
- ambling,
- apathetic,
- bone-lazy,
- cadging,
- cautious,
- circumspect,
- claudicant,
- crawling,
- creeping,
- creeping like snail,
- deliberate,
- dilatory,
- do-nothing,
- doless,
- dronish,
- drony,
- easy,
- easygoing,
- ergophobic,
- faineant,
- faltering,
- flagging,
- foot-dragging,
- gentle,
- good-for-nothing,
- gradual,
- halting,
- hebetudinous,
- hobbled,
- hobbling,
- idle,
- inactive,
- indifferent,
- indolent,
- inert,
- lackadaisical,
- laggard,
- languid,
- languorous,
- lax,
- lazy,
- leisurely,
- lethargic,
- limping,
- lumbering,
- moderate,
- nonaggressive,
- parasitic,
- phlegmatic,
- pococurante,
- poking,
- poky,
- procrastinative,
- relaxed,
- reluctant,
- remiss,
- sauntering,
- scrounging,
- shiftless,
- shuffling,
- slack,
- slow,
- slow as death,
- slow as molasses,
- slow as slow,
- slow-crawling,
- slow-foot,
- slow-going,
- slow-legged,
- slow-moving,
- slow-paced,
- slow-poky,
- slow-running,
- slow-sailing,
- slow-stepped,
- sluggish,
- snail-paced,
- snaillike,
- sponging,
- staggering,
- strolling,
- tentative,
- toddling,
- torpid,
- tortoiselike,
- tottering,
- trudging,
- turtlelike,
- unenterprising,
- unhurried,
- waddling,
- work-shy
- 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
- indolent
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- (of tumors e.g) slow to heal or develop and usually painless; "an indolent ulcer"; "leprosy is an indolent infectious disease" related words >
- ambling,
- bone-lazy,
- cadging,
- cautious,
- circumspect,
- claudicant,
- crawling,
- creeping,
- creeping like snail,
- deliberate,
- dilatory,
- do-nothing,
- doless,
- dronish,
- drony,
- easy,
- easygoing,
- ergophobic,
- faineant,
- faltering,
- flagging,
- foot-dragging,
- gentle,
- good-for-nothing,
- gradual,
- halting,
- hobbled,
- hobbling,
- idle,
- inactive,
- inert,
- laggard,
- languid,
- languorous,
- lax,
- lazy,
- lazybones,
- lazyboots,
- lazylegs,
- leisurely,
- lethargic,
- lie-abed,
- limping,
- listless,
- lumbering,
- moderate,
- nonaggressive,
- parasitic,
- poking,
- poky,
- procrastinative,
- relaxed,
- reluctant,
- remiss,
- sauntering,
- scrounging,
- shiftless,
- shuffling,
- slack,
- slothful,
- slow,
- slow as death,
- slow as molasses,
- slow as slow,
- slow-crawling,
- slow-foot,
- slow-going,
- slow-legged,
- slow-moving,
- slow-paced,
- slow-poky,
- slow-running,
- slow-sailing,
- slow-stepped,
- slugabed,
- sluggish,
- snail-paced,
- snaillike,
- sponging,
- staggering,
- stagnant,
- strolling,
- tentative,
- toddling,
- torpid,
- tortoiselike,
- tottering,
- trudging,
- turtlelike,
- unenterprising,
- unhurried,
- waddling,
- work-shy
- 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
- 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
- ambling,
- cautious,
- cautiously,
- circumspect,
- circumspectly,
- claudicant,
- comfortable,
- crawling,
- crawlingly,
- creeping,
- creeping like snail,
- creepingly,
- delayed,
- deliberate,
- deliberately,
- dilatorily,
- dilatory,
- easily,
- easy,
- faltering,
- falteringly,
- flagging,
- foot-dragging,
- gentle,
- gently,
- gradual,
- halting,
- haltingly,
- hasteless,
- hobbled,
- hobbling,
- idle,
- idly,
- in low gear,
- in march time,
- in slow motion,
- in slow tempo,
- inactive,
- indolent,
- indolently,
- lackadaisically,
- laggard,
- languid,
- languidly,
- languorous,
- languorously,
- lax,
- lazy,
- limping,
- limpingly,
- lingeringly,
- loiteringly,
- lumbering,
- moderate,
- moderately,
- pokily,
- poking,
- pokingly,
- poky,
- relaxed,
- relaxedly,
- reluctant,
- reluctantly,
- restful,
- retarded,
- sauntering,
- shuffling,
- slack,
- slothful,
- slow,
- slow as death,
- slow as molasses,
- slow as slow,
- slow-crawling,
- slow-foot,
- slow-going,
- slow-legged,
- slow-moving,
- slow-paced,
- slow-poky,
- slow-running,
- slow-sailing,
- slow-stepped,
- slowly,
- sluggish,
- sluggishly,
- snail-paced,
- snaillike,
- staggering,
- strolling,
- tardily,
- tarryingly,
- tentative,
- tentatively,
- toddling,
- tortoiselike,
- tottering,
- trudging,
- turtlelike,
- under easy sail,
- unhasty,
- unhurried,
- unhurriedly,
- waddling,
- with agonizing slowness,
- with deliberation
- 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
- 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
- wary
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- marked by keen caution and watchful prudence; "they were wary in their movements"; "a wary glance at the black clouds"; "taught to be wary of strangers" related words >
- Argus-eyed,
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- Pyrrhonic,
- Scotch,
- acute,
- agnostic,
- all ears,
- all eyes,
- arch,
- artful,
- astute,
- aux aguets,
- cagey,
- calculating,
- canny,
- careful,
- cautious,
- chary,
- circumspect,
- clever,
- considerate,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- custodial,
- cute,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- designing,
- diplomatic,
- discreet,
- disinclined to believe,
- disposed to doubt,
- distrustful,
- doubtful,
- doubting,
- dubious,
- eagle-eyed,
- feline,
- foxy,
- from Missouri,
- frugal,
- gingerly,
- guarded,
- guileful,
- hard of belief,
- hawk-eyed,
- impervious to persuasion,
- in doubt,
- inconvincible,
- incredulous,
- ingenious,
- insidious,
- inventive,
- keen-eyed,
- knowing,
- leery,
- lidless,
- mistrustful,
- mistrusting,
- observant,
- on guard,
- on the lookout,
- on the watch,
- open-eyed,
- pawky,
- politic,
- provident,
- prudent,
- questioning,
- ready,
- resourceful,
- safe,
- saving,
- scheming,
- scrupulous,
- serpentine,
- sharp,
- sharp-eyed,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- shy,
- shy of belief,
- skeptical,
- sleepless,
- slick,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaky,
- sophistical,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supple,
- suspecting,
- suspicious,
- tactical,
- thrifty,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- uncertain,
- unconvincible,
- uncredulous,
- unpersuadable,
- unpersuasible,
- untrusting,
- unwasteful,
- unwilling to accept,
- vigilant,
- vulpine,
- watchful,
- wily,
- with open eyes
- meticulous
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- marked by extreme care in treatment of details; "a meticulous craftsman"; "almost worryingly meticulous in his business formalities"
- marked by precise accordance with details; "meticulous research"; "punctilious in his attention to rules of etiquette" related words >
- OK,
- Spartan,
- Spartanic,
- absolute,
- accurate,
- active,
- advertent,
- agog,
- alert,
- all ears,
- all eyes,
- all right,
- assiduous,
- astringent,
- attentive,
- austere,
- authoritarian,
- aware,
- careful,
- cautious,
- censorious,
- choicy,
- choosy,
- close,
- compliant,
- concentrated,
- conforming,
- conscientious,
- conscionable,
- conscious,
- constant,
- correct,
- critical,
- dead right,
- delicate,
- demanding,
- detailed,
- devoted,
- devout,
- diligent,
- discriminating,
- discriminative,
- dour,
- duteous,
- dutiful,
- earnest,
- exact,
- exacting,
- exigent,
- exquisite,
- faithful,
- fastidious,
- faultless,
- fine,
- finical,
- finicking,
- finicky,
- flawless,
- full,
- fussy,
- grim,
- harsh,
- heedful,
- intense,
- intent,
- intentive,
- just,
- just right,
- letter-perfect,
- loyal,
- methodical,
- microscopic,
- mindful,
- minute,
- narrow,
- nice,
- niggling,
- observant,
- observing,
- okay,
- on the ball,
- on the job,
- open-eared,
- open-eyed,
- openmouthed,
- orderly,
- overconscientious,
- overscrupulous,
- painstaking,
- particular,
- perfect,
- perfectionist,
- perfectionistic,
- pernickety,
- picayune,
- picky,
- practicing,
- precious,
- precise,
- precisian,
- precisianistic,
- precisionist,
- precisionistic,
- priggish,
- proper,
- prudish,
- punctilious,
- punctual,
- puristic,
- puritanic,
- refined,
- regardful,
- religious,
- right,
- rigid,
- rigorous,
- rugged,
- scrupulous,
- scrutinizing,
- selective,
- sensitive,
- severe,
- special,
- specific,
- stern,
- straight,
- straight-up-and-down,
- strict,
- stringent,
- subtle,
- tender-conscienced,
- thorough,
- tough,
- true,
- unsparing,
- watchful
- attentive
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- (often followed by `to') giving care or attention; "attentive to details"; "the nurse was attentive to her patient"; "an attentive suitor" related words >
- accommodating,
- accommodative,
- accurate,
- advertent,
- affable,
- agile,
- agog,
- agreeable,
- alert,
- alive,
- all ears,
- all eyes,
- assiduous,
- attenuate,
- awake,
- aware,
- bright,
- cap in hand,
- careful,
- cautious,
- ceremonious,
- circumspect,
- civil,
- close,
- complaisant,
- concentrated,
- concentrating,
- conscientious,
- conscious,
- considerate,
- correct,
- courteous,
- courtly,
- critical,
- curious,
- deferential,
- delicate,
- demanding,
- detailed,
- diligent,
- dutiful,
- eager,
- earnest,
- exact,
- exacting,
- exigent,
- exquisite,
- fair,
- fine,
- finical,
- finicking,
- finicky,
- fussy,
- gallant,
- graceful,
- gracious,
- heedful,
- helpful,
- honorific,
- indulgent,
- intense,
- intent,
- intentive,
- interested,
- keen,
- lenient,
- listening,
- loving,
- meticulous,
- mindful,
- mindful of others,
- minute,
- narrow,
- nice,
- niggling,
- nimble,
- obliging,
- observant,
- observing,
- on the,
- on the alert,
- on the ball,
- on the job,
- open-eared,
- open-eyed,
- openmouthed,
- particular,
- polite,
- precise,
- precisianistic,
- precisionistic,
- prompt,
- punctilious,
- punctual,
- qui vive,
- quick,
- ready,
- reedy,
- refined,
- regardful,
- religious,
- respectful,
- rigid,
- rigorous,
- scrupulous,
- scrutinizing,
- sharp,
- sleepless,
- slender,
- slight,
- slim,
- smart,
- solicitous,
- strict,
- subtle,
- tactful,
- tender,
- tenuous,
- thoughtful,
- tolerant,
- twiggy,
- unblinking,
- unnodding,
- unsleeping,
- unwinking,
- urbane,
- wakeful,
- watchful,
- wide-awake
- prudent
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- careful and sensible; marked by sound judgment; "a prudent manager"; "prudent rulers"; "prudent hesitation"; "more prudent to hide than to fight" related words >
- Argus-eyed,
- Scotch,
- advisable,
- alert,
- all ears,
- all eyes,
- anticipant,
- anticipatory,
- attentive,
- aux aguets,
- bland,
- canny,
- careful,
- cautious,
- chary,
- cheeseparing,
- circumspect,
- clairvoyant,
- conserving,
- considerate,
- custodial,
- deliberate,
- discerning,
- discreet,
- discriminating,
- discriminative,
- divinatory,
- eagle-eyed,
- economic,
- economical,
- economizing,
- enlightened,
- farseeing,
- farsighted,
- forehanded,
- foreknowing,
- foreseeing,
- foresighted,
- forethoughted,
- forethoughtful,
- frugal,
- gentle,
- gingerly,
- guarded,
- hawk-eyed,
- heedful,
- hesitant,
- intuitive,
- judgmatic,
- judicial,
- judicious,
- keen-eyed,
- labor-saving,
- leaving out nothing,
- lidless,
- longsighted,
- mild,
- mild as milk,
- mindful,
- moderate,
- money-saving,
- noncommittal,
- nonviolent,
- observant,
- on guard,
- on the lookout,
- on the watch,
- open-eyed,
- overlooking no possibility,
- pacifistic,
- parsimonious,
- pawky,
- peaceable,
- peaceful,
- penny-wise,
- politic,
- precognitive,
- precognizant,
- prepared,
- prescient,
- provident,
- providential,
- prudential,
- ready,
- reasonable,
- reflecting,
- reflective,
- regardful,
- safe,
- sagacious,
- sage,
- sane,
- sapient,
- saving,
- scrimping,
- sensible,
- sharp-eyed,
- shrewd,
- skimping,
- sleepless,
- slow to act,
- sober,
- soft,
- spare,
- sparing,
- tactical,
- tame,
- temperate,
- tentative,
- thorough,
- thoughtful,
- thrifty,
- time-saving,
- unadventurous,
- uncommunicative,
- undaring,
- unenterprising,
- unprecipitate,
- unwasteful,
- vigilant,
- wary,
- watchful,
- well-advised,
- well-judged,
- wise,
- with open eyes
- bloat,
- bloating,
- bolting,
- breaking point,
- cautious,
- clarification,
- colature,
- coloring,
- confabulation,
- corruption,
- demurring,
- destructive distillation,
- diffident,
- distension,
- distillation,
- distortion,
- draining,
- drudging,
- edulcoration,
- effusion,
- elution,
- elutriation,
- equivocation,
- essentialization,
- exaggeration,
- excretion,
- exfiltration,
- exhausting,
- extraction,
- extravasation,
- extreme tension,
- exudation,
- false coloring,
- false swearing,
- falsification,
- falsifying,
- faltering,
- fatiguesome,
- fatiguing,
- filtering,
- filtration,
- grinding,
- grubbing,
- grueling,
- hardworking,
- haul,
- heave,
- hesitant,
- hesitating,
- inflation,
- jibbing,
- killing,
- laboring,
- leaching,
- lixiviation,
- miscoloring,
- misconstruction,
- misdirection,
- misinterpretation,
- misrepresentation,
- misstatement,
- misuse,
- ooze,
- oozing,
- overdistension,
- overdrawing,
- overexertion,
- overexpansion,
- overextension,
- overstrain,
- overstraining,
- overstress,
- overstretching,
- overtaxing,
- pegging,
- percolating,
- percolation,
- perjury,
- perversion,
- plodding,
- plugging,
- prevarication,
- pull,
- punishing,
- purification,
- rack,
- refinement,
- riddling,
- screening,
- scrupling,
- seep,
- seepage,
- separation,
- shilly-shallying,
- sieving,
- sifting,
- slanting,
- slaving,
- slogging,
- snapping point,
- spiritualization,
- sticking,
- stickling,
- strain,
- stress,
- stress and strain,
- stressful,
- stressfulness,
- stretch,
- stretching,
- striving,
- struggling,
- sublimation,
- sweating,
- swelling,
- taxing,
- tension,
- tentative,
- timid,
- tiresome,
- tiring,
- toiling,
- toilsome,
- torturing,
- transudation,
- trying,
- tug,
- weariful,
- wearing,
- wearisome,
- wearying,
- weep,
- weeping,
- winnowing,
- working
- measured
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- determined by measurement; "the measured distance was less than a mile"
- the rhythmic arrangement of syllables related words >
- a,
- accordant,
- admeasured,
- alike,
- alternate,
- an,
- antispastic,
- any,
- appraised,
- assessed,
- automatic,
- balanced,
- beating,
- cadenced,
- cadent,
- calculated,
- careful,
- cautious,
- certain,
- circling,
- concinnate,
- concinnous,
- considered,
- consistent,
- consonant,
- constant,
- continuous,
- correspondent,
- cyclic,
- dactylic,
- deliberate,
- dignified,
- epochal,
- equable,
- equal,
- euphonic,
- euphonical,
- euphonious,
- even,
- every other,
- exact,
- flat,
- flowing,
- fluent,
- frugal,
- gauged,
- harmonious,
- homogeneous,
- iambic,
- immutable,
- in numbers,
- in rhythm,
- intentional,
- intermittent,
- invariable,
- isochronal,
- known by measurement,
- leisurely,
- level,
- majestic,
- mapped,
- mechanical,
- metered,
- methodic,
- metric,
- metronomic,
- moderate,
- modulated,
- monolithic,
- monotonous,
- of a piece,
- one,
- ordered,
- orderly,
- oscillatory,
- periodical,
- persistent,
- planned,
- plotted,
- precise,
- predetermined,
- premeditated,
- prosodic,
- prudent,
- pulsating,
- pulsative,
- pulsatory,
- pulsing,
- pyrrhic,
- quantified,
- quantitative,
- quantitive,
- quantized,
- reasoned,
- reciprocal,
- recurrent,
- recurring,
- regular,
- regulated,
- restrained,
- rhythmic,
- rhythmical,
- robotlike,
- rotary,
- scanning,
- seasonal,
- sedate,
- serial,
- slow,
- smooth,
- smooth-sounding,
- sober,
- solemn,
- some,
- sparing,
- spondaic,
- stable,
- stately,
- steadfast,
- steady,
- stinting,
- studied,
- surveyed,
- sweet,
- symmetrical,
- systematic,
- temperate,
- throbbing,
- triangulated,
- tripping,
- trochaic,
- unbroken,
- unchangeable,
- unchanged,
- unchanging,
- undeviating,
- undifferentiated,
- undiversified,
- undulant,
- undulatory,
- unhurried,
- uniform,
- unruffled,
- unvaried,
- unvarying,
- valuated,
- valued,
- wavelike,
- well-thought-out,
- wheeling
- anxious
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- causing or fraught with or showing anxiety; "spent an anxious night waiting for the test results"; "cast anxious glances behind her"; "those nervous moments before takeoff"; "an unquiet mind" related words >
- aching,
- aghast,
- agitated,
- agog,
- alacritous,
- alarmed,
- all agog,
- all-overish,
- anguished,
- animated,
- annoyed,
- antsy,
- antsy-pantsy,
- anxioused up,
- apprehensive,
- ardent,
- athirst,
- avid,
- beset,
- bored,
- bothered,
- breathless,
- bursting to,
- careful,
- cautious,
- chafing,
- cheerless,
- concerned,
- depressed,
- desirous,
- disgusted,
- disquieted,
- distressed,
- disturbed,
- eager,
- edgy,
- embarrassed,
- enthusiastic,
- excited,
- fearful,
- foreboding,
- forward,
- fretful,
- fretting,
- frightened,
- full of life,
- grim,
- harassed,
- hasty,
- hopped-up,
- ill at ease,
- impatient,
- impetuous,
- importunate,
- in a lather,
- in a pucker,
- in a stew,
- in a sweat,
- in suspense,
- inconvenienced,
- irked,
- jittery,
- joyless,
- keen,
- keyed-up,
- lively,
- longing,
- misgiving,
- nauseated,
- nauseous,
- nervous,
- on edge,
- on tenterhooks,
- on tiptoe,
- overanxious,
- overapprehensive,
- panting,
- perturbed,
- plagued,
- pleasureless,
- pressing,
- prey to malaise,
- prompt,
- put to it,
- puzzled,
- qualmish,
- qualmy,
- quick,
- quivering,
- raring to,
- ready,
- ready and willing,
- repelled,
- restive,
- restless,
- revolted,
- sad,
- scared,
- scary,
- sickened,
- solicitous,
- sore beset,
- spirited,
- squirming,
- squirmy,
- strained,
- suffering angst,
- suspenseful,
- taut,
- tense,
- terrified,
- thirsty,
- troubled,
- uncertain,
- uneasy,
- unfulfilled,
- ungratified,
- unhappy,
- unpatient,
- unquiet,
- unsatisfied,
- upset,
- urgent,
- vexed,
- vital,
- vivacious,
- vivid,
- wary,
- watchful,
- with bated breath,
- with muscles tense,
- worried,
- yearning,
- zealous,
- zestful
- cautious
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- cautious in attitude and careful in actions; prudent; "a cautious answer"; "very cautious about believing everything she was told"
- showing careful forethought; "reserved and cautious; never making swift decisions"; "a cautious driver"
- avoiding excess; "a conservative estimate" related words >
- alert,
- ambling,
- attentive,
- cagey,
- calculating,
- canny,
- careful,
- chary,
- circumspect,
- claudicant,
- considerate,
- cozy,
- crawling,
- creeping,
- creeping like snail,
- curious,
- deliberate,
- demurring,
- diffident,
- discreet,
- disinclined to believe,
- disposed to doubt,
- easy,
- expedient,
- faltering,
- flagging,
- foot-dragging,
- foresighted,
- forethoughtful,
- gentle,
- gingerly,
- gradual,
- guarded,
- halting,
- hard of belief,
- heedful,
- hesitant,
- hesitating,
- hobbled,
- hobbling,
- idle,
- impervious to persuasion,
- inconvincible,
- incredulous,
- indolent,
- jibbing,
- judicious,
- languid,
- languorous,
- lazy,
- leaving out nothing,
- leery,
- leisurely,
- limping,
- loving,
- lumbering,
- mindful,
- moderate,
- noncommittal,
- on guard,
- overlooking no possibility,
- pawky,
- poking,
- poky,
- politic,
- precautious,
- provident,
- prudent,
- regardful,
- relaxed,
- reluctant,
- safe,
- sauntering,
- scheming,
- scrupling,
- shilly-shallying,
- shrewd,
- shuffling,
- shy of belief,
- skeptical,
- 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,
- sticking,
- stickling,
- straining,
- strolling,
- suspecting,
- suspicious,
- tender,
- tentative,
- thorough,
- thoughtful,
- timid,
- toddling,
- tortoiselike,
- tottering,
- trudging,
- turtlelike,
- unadventurous,
- uncommunicative,
- unconvincible,
- uncredulous,
- undaring,
- unenterprising,
- unhurried,
- unpersuadable,
- unpersuasible,
- unprecipitate,
- unwilling to accept,
- vigilant,
- waddling,
- wary,
- watchful
- flagging
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- a walk of flagstones; "the flagging in the garden was quite imaginative"
- flagstones collectively; "there was a pile of flagging waiting to be laid in place" related words >
- ambling,
- cautious,
- circumspect,
- claudicant,
- coming apart,
- cracking,
- crawling,
- creeping,
- creeping like snail,
- crumbling,
- debilitated,
- decadent,
- declining,
- degenerate,
- deliberate,
- deteriorating,
- disintegrating,
- draining,
- drooping,
- droopy,
- dwindling,
- easy,
- ebbing,
- effete,
- enervated,
- enfeebled,
- fading,
- fagged,
- failing,
- faint,
- fainting,
- falling,
- faltering,
- fatigued,
- feeling faint,
- foot-dragging,
- footsore,
- fragmenting,
- frazzled,
- gentle,
- going to pieces,
- good and tired,
- gradual,
- halting,
- hobbled,
- hobbling,
- idle,
- indolent,
- jaded,
- languid,
- languishing,
- languorous,
- lazy,
- leisurely,
- limping,
- lumbering,
- marcescent,
- moderate,
- pining,
- poking,
- poky,
- ready to drop,
- regressive,
- relaxed,
- reluctant,
- retrograde,
- retrogressive,
- run ragged,
- run-down,
- sagging,
- sauntering,
- seedy,
- shriveling,
- shuffling,
- sinking,
- slack,
- sliding,
- slipping,
- slothful,
- slow,
- slow as death,
- slow as molasses,
- slow as slow,
- slow-crawling,
- slow-foot,
- slow-going,
- slow-legged,
- slow-moving,
- slow-paced,
- slow-poky,
- slow-running,
- slow-sailing,
- slow-stepped,
- sluggish,
- slumping,
- snail-paced,
- snaillike,
- staggering,
- strolling,
- subsiding,
- tabetic,
- tentative,
- tired,
- tired-winged,
- toddling,
- toilworn,
- tortoiselike,
- tottering,
- trudging,
- turtlelike,
- unhurried,
- unrefreshed,
- unrestored,
- waddling,
- waning,
- wasting,
- way-weary,
- wayworn,
- weak,
- weakened,
- wearied,
- weariful,
- weary,
- weary-footed,
- weary-laden,
- weary-winged,
- weary-worn,
- wilting,
- withering,
- worn,
- worn-down,
- worsening
- safe
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- strongbox where valuables can be safely kept
- a ventilated or refrigerated cupboard for securing provisions from pests
- (of an undertaking) secure from risk
- free from danger or the risk of harm; "a safe trip"; "you will be safe here"; "a safe place"; "a safe bet"
- in safekeeping; "your secret is safe with me" related words >
- Fort Knox,
- OK,
- acceptable,
- all right,
- allowable,
- appropriate,
- armed,
- bank,
- bona fide,
- bursary,
- calculating,
- canny,
- careful,
- cash register,
- cashbox,
- cautious,
- chary,
- chest,
- circumspect,
- cloaked,
- coffer,
- coin box,
- conservative,
- considerate,
- copyrighted,
- correct,
- covered,
- crypt,
- defended,
- deliberate,
- dependable,
- depository,
- discreet,
- exchequer,
- fisc,
- gingerly,
- gold depository,
- guarded,
- guarding,
- harmless,
- healthy,
- heedful,
- hesitant,
- immune,
- immunized,
- impregnable,
- innocent,
- innocuous,
- inoffensive,
- insured,
- intact,
- inviolable,
- invulnerable,
- judicious,
- justifiable,
- justified,
- leaving out nothing,
- locker,
- mindful,
- money chest,
- noncommittal,
- okay,
- on guard,
- overlooking no possibility,
- patented,
- pawky,
- penny bank,
- permissible,
- piggy bank,
- policed,
- politic,
- pork barrel,
- proper,
- protected,
- protecting,
- prudent,
- public crib,
- public till,
- public treasury,
- public trough,
- regardful,
- reliable,
- repository,
- right,
- riskless,
- safe and sound,
- safe-deposit box,
- safeguarded,
- safeguarding,
- safely,
- satisfactory,
- scatheless,
- screened,
- secure,
- secured,
- securely,
- sheltered,
- sheltering,
- shielded,
- shielding,
- slow to act,
- solid,
- sound,
- storehouse,
- strong room,
- strongbox,
- subtreasury,
- suitable,
- sure,
- tentative,
- thorough,
- till,
- timely,
- treasure-house,
- treasury,
- tried and true,
- unadventurous,
- unassailable,
- uncommunicative,
- undamaged,
- undaring,
- unenterprising,
- unharmed,
- unhurt,
- uninjured,
- uninjurious,
- unpolluted,
- unprecipitate,
- unscathed,
- unthreatened,
- untouched,
- vault,
- wary,
- whole,
- wholesome
- scrupulous
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- having scruples; arising from a sense of right and wrong; principled; "less scrupulous producers sent bundles that were deceptive in appearance" related words >
- Pyrrhonic,
- accurate,
- active,
- agnostic,
- analyze,
- attentive,
- bashful,
- boggling,
- canvass,
- careful,
- case,
- cautious,
- censorious,
- check over,
- check up,
- choicy,
- choosy,
- close,
- comb,
- compliant,
- con,
- conforming,
- conscientious,
- conscionable,
- consider,
- constant,
- contemplate,
- correct,
- critical,
- deferential,
- delicate,
- demanding,
- demurring,
- detailed,
- devoted,
- devout,
- diffident,
- dig into,
- discriminating,
- discriminative,
- dissect,
- distrustful,
- doubtful,
- doubting,
- dubious,
- duteous,
- dutiful,
- ethical,
- exact,
- exacting,
- examine,
- exigent,
- exquisite,
- eye,
- eyeball,
- fair-minded,
- faithful,
- faltering,
- fastidious,
- fine,
- finical,
- finicking,
- finicky,
- from Missouri,
- fussy,
- heedful,
- hesitant,
- hesitating,
- high-minded,
- honest,
- honorable,
- in doubt,
- inspect,
- just,
- leery,
- look over,
- loyal,
- methodical,
- meticulous,
- mindful,
- minute,
- mistrustful,
- mistrusting,
- modest,
- moral,
- narrow,
- neat,
- nice,
- obedient,
- observant,
- orderly,
- overconscientious,
- overlook,
- overscrupulous,
- painstaking,
- particular,
- penetrate,
- perfectionistic,
- perlustrate,
- peruse,
- picky,
- pierce,
- pore over,
- practicing,
- precious,
- precise,
- precisian,
- precisianistic,
- precisionist,
- precisionistic,
- priggish,
- principled,
- probe,
- prudish,
- punctilious,
- punctual,
- puristic,
- puritanic,
- qualmish,
- questioning,
- refined,
- regardful,
- religious,
- respectful,
- right,
- righteous,
- rigid,
- rigorous,
- scan,
- scrutinize,
- scrutinizing,
- selective,
- sensitive,
- severe,
- shrinking,
- shy,
- skeptical,
- squeamish,
- stickling,
- strict,
- study,
- subtle,
- survey,
- suspecting,
- suspicious,
- tender-conscienced,
- true,
- uncertain,
- untrusting,
- upstanding,
- vet,
- view,
- wary,
- watch,
- weigh
- ambling,
- ambulant,
- ambulation,
- ambulative,
- ambulatory,
- backpacking,
- cautious,
- circuit-riding,
- circumforaneous,
- circumspect,
- claudicant,
- crawling,
- creeping,
- creeping like snail,
- deliberate,
- discursive,
- divagatory,
- drifting,
- easy,
- errant,
- expeditionary,
- faltering,
- flagging,
- flitting,
- floating,
- foot-dragging,
- footing,
- footing it,
- footloose,
- footloose and fancy-free,
- footwork,
- fugitive,
- gadding,
- gentle,
- globe-girdling,
- globe-trotting,
- going,
- going on foot,
- gradual,
- gypsy-like,
- gypsyish,
- halting,
- hiking,
- hitchhiking,
- hitching,
- hobbled,
- hobbling,
- hoofing,
- idle,
- indolent,
- itinerant,
- itinerary,
- journeying,
- landloping,
- languid,
- languorous,
- lazy,
- legwork,
- leisurely,
- limping,
- locomotive,
- lumbering,
- marching,
- meandering,
- migrational,
- migratory,
- moderate,
- moving,
- mundivagant,
- nomad,
- nomadic,
- on tour,
- passing,
- pedestrian,
- pedestrianism,
- perambulating,
- perambulation,
- perambulatory,
- peregrinative,
- peregrine,
- peripatetic,
- pilgrimlike,
- poking,
- poky,
- progressing,
- rambling,
- ranging,
- relaxed,
- reluctant,
- roaming,
- roving,
- sauntering,
- shifting,
- shuffling,
- slack,
- slothful,
- slow,
- slow as death,
- slow as molasses,
- slow as slow,
- 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,
- straggling,
- straying,
- tentative,
- thumbing,
- thumbing a ride,
- toddling,
- tortoiselike,
- tottering,
- touring,
- touristic,
- touristy,
- traipsing,
- tramping,
- transient,
- transitory,
- transmigratory,
- traveling,
- treading,
- trekking,
- trudging,
- turtlelike,
- unhurried,
- vagabond,
- vagrant,
- waddling,
- walking,
- wandering,
- wayfaring
- conservative
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- a person who has conservative ideas or opinions
- resistant to change
- opposed to liberal reforms related words >
- Bircher,
- Bourbon,
- Epistle side,
- Methuselah,
- Tory,
- antediluvian,
- antique,
- back number,
- backward,
- bitter-ender,
- careful,
- cautious,
- centrist,
- chary,
- circumspect,
- clockwise,
- compromiser,
- conformist,
- conservational,
- conservationist,
- conservatist,
- conservatory,
- conserving,
- controlled,
- conventional,
- dad,
- decanal side,
- dexter,
- dextral,
- dextrocardial,
- dextrocerebral,
- dextrocular,
- dextrogyrate,
- dextrogyratory,
- dextropedal,
- dextrorotary,
- dextrorse,
- die-hard,
- diehard,
- discreet,
- dodo,
- elder,
- extreme right-winger,
- fogy,
- fogyish,
- fossil,
- fud,
- fuddy-duddy,
- fundamentalist,
- granny,
- hard hat,
- has-been,
- hidebound,
- imperialist,
- keeping,
- laudator temporis acti,
- longhair,
- matriarch,
- mid-Victorian,
- middle-of-the-road,
- middle-of-the-roader,
- moderate,
- moderationist,
- moderatist,
- monarchist,
- mossback,
- neutral,
- nonprogressive,
- off,
- old believer,
- old crock,
- old dodo,
- old fogy,
- old liner,
- old man,
- old poop,
- old school,
- old woman,
- old-fashioned,
- old-fogyish,
- old-line,
- old-timer,
- opposed to change,
- orthodox,
- patriarch,
- politic,
- pop,
- pops,
- preservative,
- preservatory,
- preserving,
- proper,
- protective,
- prudent,
- radical right,
- reactionarist,
- reactionary,
- reactionist,
- reasonable,
- recto,
- regular old fogy,
- relic,
- restrained,
- right,
- right field,
- right hand,
- right of center,
- right side,
- right wing,
- right-hand,
- right-wing,
- right-winger,
- right-wingish,
- rightist,
- royalist,
- saving,
- sober,
- social Darwinist,
- square,
- stable,
- standard,
- standpat,
- standpatter,
- starboard,
- starboard tack,
- starets,
- stick-in-the-mud,
- temperate,
- tory,
- traditional,
- traditionalist,
- traditionalistic,
- true-blue,
- ultraconservative,
- unexcessive,
- unextravagant,
- unextreme,
- unprogressive,
- wary
- mindful
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- bearing in mind; attentive to; "ever mindful of her health"; "mindful of his responsibilities"; "mindful of these criticisms, I shall attempt to justify my action" related words >
- accommodating,
- accommodative,
- active,
- advertent,
- agog,
- agreeable,
- alert,
- alive,
- alive to,
- all ears,
- all eyes,
- all-knowing,
- apperceptive,
- appercipient,
- appreciative of,
- apprehending,
- apprehensive,
- apprised of,
- assiduous,
- attentive,
- au courant,
- awake,
- awake to,
- aware,
- aware of,
- behind the curtain,
- behind the scenes,
- canny,
- careful,
- cautious,
- circumspect,
- cognizant,
- cognizant of,
- complaisant,
- compliant,
- comprehending,
- concentrated,
- conforming,
- conscientious,
- conscious,
- conscious of,
- considerate,
- constant,
- conversant,
- curious,
- deliberate,
- delicate,
- devoted,
- devout,
- diligent,
- discreet,
- duteous,
- dutiful,
- earnest,
- evocative,
- faithful,
- finical,
- finicking,
- finicky,
- gingerly,
- guarded,
- haunted,
- heedful,
- helpful,
- hep to,
- hesitant,
- in retrospect,
- in the know,
- in the secret,
- indulgent,
- informed of,
- insightful,
- intelligent,
- intense,
- intent,
- intentive,
- judicious,
- knowing,
- knowledgeable,
- leaving out nothing,
- lenient,
- let into,
- loving,
- loyal,
- memoried,
- meticulous,
- mindful of,
- mindful of others,
- mnemonic,
- nagged,
- nice,
- niggling,
- no stranger to,
- noncommittal,
- obliging,
- observant,
- observing,
- obsessed,
- omniscient,
- on guard,
- on the ball,
- on the job,
- on the lookout,
- on to,
- open-eared,
- open-eyed,
- openmouthed,
- overlooking no possibility,
- pawky,
- perceptive,
- percipient,
- perspicacious,
- plagued,
- politic,
- practicing,
- prehensile,
- privy to,
- prudent,
- punctilious,
- punctual,
- rankled,
- redolent,
- regardful,
- remembering,
- remindful,
- reminiscent,
- retentive,
- retrospective,
- safe,
- sagacious,
- scrupulous,
- seized of,
- sensible,
- sensible of,
- sensible to,
- shrewd,
- slow to act,
- solicitous,
- streetwise,
- suggestive,
- tactful,
- tender,
- tentative,
- thorough,
- thoughtful,
- tolerant,
- true,
- unable to forget,
- unadventurous,
- uncommunicative,
- undaring,
- undeceived,
- understanding,
- unenterprising,
- unmindful,
- unprecipitate,
- vigilant,
- watchful,
- wise,
- wise to
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