Usually means: Careful to avoid potential risks.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. precautious: Merriam-Webster
  2. precautious: Collins English Dictionary
  3. precautious: Wordnik
  4. precautious: Wiktionary
  5. precautious: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. Precautious, precautious: Dictionary.com
  7. Precautious: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. precautious: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Precautious: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. precautious: FreeDictionary.org
  11. Precautious: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. precautious: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. precautious: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (precautious)

▸ adjective:  Taking precautions.

Similar:
precautionary, precautional, cautionary, prudential, prethoughtful, preemptive, prepensive, preventory, precare, precarious, more...

Opposite:
careless, negligent, inattentive, unwary, unheeding



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Similar:
precautionary, precautional, cautionary, prudential, prethoughtful, preemptive, prepensive, preventory, precare, precarious, more...

Opposite:
careless, negligent, inattentive, unwary, unheeding



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