Usually means: Attentive to potential risks, cautious.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word careful:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. careful: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. careful: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. careful: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. careful: Collins English Dictionary
  5. careful: Vocabulary.com
  6. Careful, careful: Wordnik
  7. careful: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. careful: Wiktionary
  9. careful: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. careful: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. careful: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Careful, careful: Dictionary.com
  13. careful: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Careful (Guster song), Careful (Paramore song), Careful (album), Careful: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Careful: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. careful: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. careful: Rhymezone
  18. careful: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. careful: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. careful: Free Dictionary
  21. careful: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. careful: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. careful: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. careful: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. careful: Idioms

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

(Note: See carefuller as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Taking care; attentive to potential danger, error or harm; cautious.
adjective:  Conscientious and painstaking; meticulous.
adjective:  (obsolete) Full of care or grief; sorrowful, sad.
adjective:  (obsolete) Full of cares or anxiety; worried, troubled.

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