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carefully

adv
/ˈkɛːf(ə)li/UK/ˈkɛɹf(ə)li/US

Etymology

From Middle English carfulli, carefulliche, from Old English carfullīċe, ċearfullīċe (“carefully, diligently”), equivalent to careful + -ly.

  1. inherited from carfullīċe
  2. inherited from carfulli

Definitions

  1. Sorrowfully.

    • […] there was she faine / To call them all in order to her ayde, / And them conjure, upon eternall paine, / To counsell her, so carefully dismayd, / How she might heale her sonne […]

  2. With care

    With care; attentively, circumspectly.

    • As he was a politician, he discussed all subjects carefully, not offending anyone.
    • He carefully studied the papers, while planning his next move.
    • He carefully avoided the subject all evening.

  3. Conscientiously, painstakingly, fastidiously, meticulously

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at carefully. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at carefully. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at carefully

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA