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prudent

Main Entry:
prudent [prood-nt]
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: wise, sensible in action and thought
Synonyms: advisable, canny, careful, cautious, circumspect, discerning, discreet, economical, far-sighted, frugal, hedging one's bets, judgmatic, judicious, leery, playing safe, politic, provident, reasonable, sagacious, sage, sane, sapient, shrewd, sound, sparing, tactical, thinking twice, thrifty, vigilant, wary
Notes: prudent means careful and sensible or marked by sound judgment, while prudish means excessively proper or modest in speech, conduct or dress
Antonyms: careless, imprudent, incautious, unwise
Main Entry: canny
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: clever, artful
Synonyms: able, acute, adroit, astute, cagey, careful, cautious, circumspect, cunning, dexterous, discreet, foxy*, frugal, having fancy footwork, hep, ingenious, intelligent, judicious, knowing, nimble-witted, perspicacious, prudent, quick, quick-witted, sagacious, shrewd, skillful, slick, slippery*, sly, smart, smooth*, street smart, streetwise, subtle, wary, watchful, wise, with it, worldly-wise
Antonyms: foolish, inept, silly
Main Entry: careful
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: cautious; painstaking
Synonyms: accurate, alert, apprehensive, assiduous, attentive, chary, choosy, circumspect, concerned, conscientious, conservative, cool, deliberate, discreet, exacting, fastidious, finicky, fussy, going to great lengths, guarded, heedful, judicious, leery, meticulous, mindful, observant, particular, playing safe, precise, prim, protective, provident, prudent, punctilious, regardful, religious, rigorous, scrupulous, selfdisciplined, shy, sober, solicitous, solid, thorough, thoughtful, vigilant, wary
Antonyms: careless, inattentive, incautious, thoughtless, uncareful, unconcerned, unscrupulous
Main Entry: cautious
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: careful, guarded
Synonyms: alert, all ears, cagey, calculating, chary, circumspect, considerate, discreet, forethoughtful, gingerly, hedging one's bets, heedful, judicious, keeping on one's toes, leery, on the lookout, playing it cool, playing safe, politic, provident, prudent, pussyfoot, safe, shrewd, taking it easy, taking it slow, tentative, thinking twice, vigilant, walking on eggs, wary, watchful, watching one's step, watching out, with one's eyes peeled
Antonyms: careless, hasty, heedless, imprudent, incautious, rash, thoughtless, uncareful, unguarded, unobservant
Main Entry: chary
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: careful, cautious
Synonyms: cagey, calculating, canny, circumspect, considerate, constrained, discreet, economical, fastidious, frugal, gingerly, guarded, heedful, hesitant, inhibited, leery, loath, miserly, particular, prudent, reluctant, restrained, safe, scrupulous, sparing, stingy, suspicious, thrifty, uneasy, wary, watchful
Antonyms: careless, hasty, heedless, incautious, rash, uncareful, willing
Main Entry: circumspect
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: cautious, discreet
Synonyms: attentive, cagey, calculating, canny, careful, chary, considerate, deliberate, discriminating, gingerly, guarded, heedful, judicious, meticulous, observant, politic, prudent, punctilious, safe, sagacious, sage, scrupulous, vigilant, wary, watchful
Antonyms: audacious, bold, careless, incautious, indiscreet, rash, uncareful, uncircumspect, unheedful
Main Entry: decent
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: respectable, appropriate
Synonyms: approved, becoming, befitting, chaste, clean, comely, comme il faut, conforming, continent, correct, decorous, delicate, ethical, fit, fitting, good, honest, honorable, immaculate, mannerly, modest, moral, nice, noble, on the up and up, polite, presentable, proper, prudent, pure, reserved, right, seemly, spotless, stainless, standard, straight, straight arrow, straight shooting, suitable, trustworthy, unblemished, undefiled, untarnished, upright, virtuous, worthy
Antonyms: inappropriate, indecent, poor, unrespectable, unsuitable, unsuited
Main Entry: deliberate
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: intentional
Synonyms: advised, aforethought, calculated, careful, cautious, cold-blooded, conscious, considered, cut-and-dried, designed, designful, done on purpose, express, fixed, intended, judged, meticulous, planned, pondered, prearranged, predesigned, predeterminate, predetermined, premeditated, prepense, projected, provident, prudent, purposed, purposeful, purposive, reasoned, resolved, schemed, scrupulous, studied, studious, thought out, thoughtful, voluntary, wary, weighed, willful, with forethought, witting
Antonyms: chance, indeterminate, unintentional, unmethodical, unsystematic, unwitting
Main Entry: delicate
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: careful, tactful
Synonyms: accurate, adept, cautious, considerate, deft, detailed, diplomatic, discreet, expert, foresighted, heedful, masterly, minute, politic, precise, proficient, prudent, sensitive, skilled, tactical, wary
Antonyms: indelicate, inelegant, insensitive, uncareful, unscrupulous
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