calculating

Main Entry:
calculating [kal-kyuh-ley-ting]
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: scheming to manipulate
Synonyms: Machiavellian, artful, canny, careful, cautious, chary, circumspect, considerate, contriving, crafty, cunning, designing, devious, discreet, gingerly, guarded, guileful, intelligent, manipulative, politic, premeditating, safe, scheming, sharp, shrewd, sly, wary, wily
Antonyms: artless, naive, unassuming, uncalculating
Main Entry: calculate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: plan on
Synonyms: aim, anticipate, assume, bank on, build, count on, depend on, design, intend, judge, plan, reckon, rely on, suppose, think likely, trust
Main Entry: accounting
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: keeping financial accounts
Synonyms: auditing, balancing the books, bookkeeping, calculating, computing, reckoning
Main Entry: astute
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: perceptive
Synonyms: adroit, brainy, bright, calculating, canny, clever, crafty, discerning, foxy, insightful, intelligent, keen, knowing, not born yesterday, on the ball, perspicacious, quick on the uptake, sagacious, savvy, sharp, sharp as a tack, shrewd, sly
Antonyms: asinine, idiotic, ignorant, imbecile, obtuse, shallow, stupid, thick, unintelligent
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: crafty
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: clever, scheming
Synonyms: adroit, artful, astute, cagey, calculating, canny, crazy like fox, cunning, deceitful, deep, designing, devious, disingenuous, duplicitous, foxy*, fraudulent, guileful, insidious, intelligent, keen, knowing, sharp, shrewd, slick, slippery*, sly, smart, smooth, street smart, streetwise, subtle, tricky, vulpine, wily
Antonyms: honest, naive, unclever
Main Entry: devious
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: dishonest, crafty
Synonyms: artful, calculating, crooked, deceitful, double-dealing, duplicitous, errant, erring, evasive, faking one out, fishy, foxy*, fraudulent, guileful, indirect, insidious, insincere, not straightforward, oblique, obliquitous, playing games, playing politics, put on, roundabout, scheming, shady, shifty, shrewd, sly, sneaking, sneaky, surreptitious, treacherous, tricky, underhanded, wily
Antonyms: artless, frank, honest, open, straightforward, trustworthy, truthful
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