Adjective careful has 5 senses
  1. careful - 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"
    Antonyms:
    careless, casual, cursory, passing, perfunctory, haphazard, slapdash, slipshod, sloppy, heedless, reckless, negligent, offhand, offhanded, incautious
  2. careful, heedful - cautiously attentive; "careful of her feelings"; "heedful of his father's advice"
    Antonyms: unmindful, forgetful, mindless (indirect, via mindful)
  3. careful, deliberate, measured - with care and dignity; "walking at the same measured pace"; "with all deliberate speed"
    Antonym: hurried (indirect, via unhurried)
  4. careful - full of cares or anxiety; "Thou art careful and troubled about many things"-Luke 10.41
    Antonym:
    untroubled (indirect, via troubled)
  5. careful, thrifty - mindful of the future in spending money; "careful with money"
    Antonym: improvident (indirect, via provident)
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