carefulとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English careful, from 古期英語 carful; equivalent to care +‎ -ful.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈkɛːfəl/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈkɛ(ə)ɹfəl/

形容詞

careful (comparative more careful, superlative most careful)

1. Taking care; attentive to potential danger, error or harm; cautious.

   He was a slow and careful driver.

   Be very careful while trekking through the jungle.

2. Conscientious and painstaking; meticulous.
   • 2019, Li Huang; James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, DOI:10.1080/01434632.2019.1596115, page 7:

     At the same time, we were cognisant that careful scholars should never solely rely on their own impressionistic observations, and, that our own impressions were inexact and not capable of being quantified.

   They made a careful search of the crime scene.

3. (obsolete) Full of care or grief; sorrowful, sad.
4. (obsolete) Full of cares or anxiety; worried, troubled.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.1:

     Where through long watch, and late daies weary toile, / She soundly slept, and carefull thoughts did quite assoile.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:cautious
• See also Thesaurus:meticulous

反意語

• careless

派生語

• carefully
• carefulness