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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | act reasonably, properly |
| Synonyms: | act correctly, act one's age, act with decorum, be civil, be good, be nice, be on best behavior, be orderly, comport oneself, conduct oneself properly, control, demean oneself, deport oneself, direct, discipline oneself, keep one's nose clean, keep the peace, live up to, manage, manage oneself, mind one's manners, mind one's p's and q's, observe golden rule, observe the law, play fair, shape up, toe the mark, watch one's step |
| Antonyms: | act up, misbehave |
| 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: | heed |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give care, thought to |
| Synonyms: | attend, baby-sit, be aware, be guided by, bear in mind, catch, consider, dig*, do one's bidding, follow, follow orders, get a load of, give ear, hark, hear, hearken, keep eye peeled, keep tabs, listen, mark, mind, mind the store, note, obey, observe, pay attention, pick up, regard, ride herd on, see, sit, spot, stay in line, take notice of, take to heart, toe the line, watch, watch one's step, watch out, watch over, watch the store |
| Antonyms: | disregard, ignore, neglect, overlook |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mind |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be careful |
| Synonyms: | be cautious, be concerned, be on guard, be solicitous, be wary, have a care, mind one's p's and q's, take care, tend, toe the line, trouble, watch, watch one's step, watch out |
| Main Entry: | pussyfoot |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be cautious |
| Synonyms: | avoid, be noncommittal, beat around the bush, creep, dodge, duck the issues, equivocate, evade, glide, hedge, hem and haw, lurk, play it close to the vest, prevaricate, prowl, shuffle, sidestep, sit on the fence, skirt, skulk, slide, slink, slip, sneak, steal, tergiversate, tergiverse, tiptoe, tread warily, watch one's step, weasel |
| Antonyms: | plod |
| Main Entry: | wary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | careful, cautious |
| Synonyms: | alert, attentive, cagey, calculating, canny, chary, circumspect, considerate, discreet, distrustful, doubting, frugal, gingerly, guarded, handling with kid gloves, heedful, keeping on one's toes, leery, on guard, on the lookout, on the qui vive, provident, prudent, safe, saving, sly, sparing, suspicious, thinking twice, thrifty, unwasteful, vigilant, walking on eggs, watchful, watching one's step, watching out, wide-awake |
| Notes: | to be wary is to be cautious or watchful; weary means fatigued or tired |
| Antonyms: | careless, foolish, heedless, incautious, indiscreet, rash, reckless |
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| Main Entry: | heed |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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Adjectives: |
absorbed, alive to, askance, attentive, audient, awake to, beseeching, breathless, cognizant, come, distraught, engaged in, engrossed in, excubant, expergefacient, fleeting, furtive, intent on, levisomnous, measured, mindful, observant, observing, occupied with, on the watch, open, rapt, regardant, regardful, steadfast, taken up with, undistracted, upon the stretch, vultured, watchful, wrapped in
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| Main Entry: | mind |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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branular, cacophrenic, cerebral, conative, endowed with reason, ghostly, hyperactive, ideogenous, immaterial, intellectual, mental, meshuge, metaphysical, multanimous, nooscopic, philonoetic, preconscious, primal, psychagogic, psychal, psychical, psychogenic, psychological, psychotropic, rational, self, spirituel, strung, subjective, subliminal, unbalanced, unstable, wud
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