cautious

English

Etymology

caution (“from Latin cautus”) +‎ -ous

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈkɔːʃəs/
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Rhymes: -ɔːʃəs

Adjective

cautious (comparative more cautious, superlative most cautious)

Using or exercising caution; careful; tentative
He took a few cautious steps toward the cave.

Synonyms

See also Thesaurus:cautious

Antonyms

careless, incautious, neglecting, uncautious

Derived terms

cautiously
cautiousness
hypercautious
incautious
overcautious
supercautious
ultracautious
uncautious

Translations

careful

Albanian: i kujdesshëm (sq)
Arabic: وَرِع‎ (wariʿ), حَذِر‎ (ar) (ḥaḏir), مُتَحَوِّط‎ (mutaḥawwiṭ)
Armenian: զգուշավոր (hy) (zgušavor)
Azerbaijani: ehtiyatlı
Bashkir: һаҡ (haq)
Belarusian: асцяро́жны (ascjaróžny)
Bengali: সতর্ক (bn) (sôtôrk), সাবধান (bn) (sabôdhan)
Bulgarian: внима́телен (bg) (vnimátelen), предпазли́в (bg) (predpazlív)
Burmese: သတိထား (my) (sa.ti.hta:)
Catalan: cautelós, caut (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 謹慎／谨慎 (zh) (jǐnshèn), 慎重 (zh) (shènzhòng)
Czech: opatrný (cs), obezřetný
Danish: varsom, forsigtig
Dutch: voorzichtig (nl)
Estonian: ettevaatlik
Finnish: varovainen (fi)
French: prudent (fr)
Georgian: ფრთხილი (prtxili)
German: vorsichtig (de), zaghaft (de), behutsam (de)
Greek:
Ancient: ἐπιμελής (epimelḗs), ἥσυχος (hḗsukhos)
Gujarati: સાવધાન (sāvdhān)
Hebrew: זָהִיר‎ (zahír)
Hindi: सावधान (hi) (sāvdhān), सतर्क (hi) (satark)
Hungarian: óvatos (hu)
Indonesian: waspada (id)
Interlingua: caute
Irish: aireach, faichilleach
Italian: cauto (it), ritenuto (it), oculato (it)
Japanese: 慎重な (ja) (しんちょうな, shinchō na)
Kazakh: сақ (saq), абай (abai)
Khmer: ប្រយ័ត្ន (km) (prɑyat)
Korean: 조심스럽다 (ko) (josimseureopda), 신중하다 (ko) (sinjunghada)
Kyrgyz: сак (ky) (sak)
Lao: ລະມັດລະວັງ (la mat la wang), ຮອບຄອບ (hǭp khǭp), ຄ່ຽມ (khīam), ລະມັດ (la mat), ລະວັງ (la wang), ລະມັດ (la mat)
Latin: cautus (la) m
Latvian: piesardzīgs
Lithuanian: atsargus (lt), apdairus
Macedonian: пре́тпазлив (prétpazliv), внима́телен (vnimátelen)
Maori: mohito, tūpato
Marathi: सावध (sāvadh)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: болгоомжтой (bolgoomžtoj), хашир (mn) (xašir)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: forsiktig
Persian: محتاط‎ (fa) (mohtât)
Polish: ostrożny (pl)
Portuguese: cuidadoso (pt), cauteloso (pt)
Romanian: precaut (ro)
Russian: осторо́жный (ru) (ostoróžnyj), внима́тельный (ru) (vnimátelʹnyj), осмотри́тельный (ru) (osmotrítelʹnyj)
Scottish Gaelic: cùramach
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: о̏пре̄зан, бу́дан, па̀жљив
Roman: ȍprēzan (sh), búdan (sh), pàžljiv (sh)
Slovak: opatrný, obozretný
Slovene: previden
Spanish: cauto (es), cauteloso (es), precavido (es), cuidadoso (es)
Swedish: försiktig (sv), varsam (sv), varlig (sv), aktsam (sv)
Tajik: боэҳтиёт (boehtiyot), эҳтиёткор (ehtiyotkor)
Tatar: сак (tt) (saq)
Thai: ระวัง (th) (rá-wang), รอบคอบ (th) (rɔ̂ɔp-kɔ̂ɔp), สุขุม (th) (sù-kǔm), ระมัดระวัง (th) (rá-mát-rá-wang)
Tocharian B: imassu
Turkish: dikkatli (tr), ihtiyatlı (tr)
Turkmen: aýawly (tk)
Ukrainian: обере́жний (oberéžnyj), оба́чний (obáčnyj)
Urdu: ساودھان‎ (sāvdhān), سترک‎ (satark), محتاط‎ (muhtāt)
Uyghur: ئېھتىياتچان‎ (ëhtiyatchan)
Uzbek: ehtiyotkor (uz)
Vietnamese: cẩn trọng (vi), cẩn thận (vi)
Volapük: prüdik (vo)
Winnebago: hirakikaraxjį
Yiddish: פֿאָרזיכטיק‎ (forzikhtik)

References

cautious at OneLook Dictionary Search
cautious in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “cautious”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.