adv
Meaning 1
In a cautious manner.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
cautiously
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkɔːʃəsli/
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cot-caught-merger: /ˈkɑʃəsli/
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CMU ARPABET: K AO1 SH AH0 S L IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adverb
Meaning 2
as if with kid gloves; with caution or prudence or tact
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- she ventured cautiously downstairs
- they handled the incident with kid gloves
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: carefully
Antonyms: incautiously
adverb
Meaning 3
in a conservative manner
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- we estimated the number of demonstrators conservatively at 200,000.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: conservatively, guardedly
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English cautious Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English cautiously From cautious + -ly.
Across languages
Translations
35 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: զգուշորեն (zgušoren) — in a cautious manner
- Azerbaijani: ehityatlı — in a cautious manner
- Azerbaijani: ehtiyatla — in a cautious manner
- Catalan: cautelosament — in a cautious manner
- Czech: opatrně — in a cautious manner
- Dutch: behoedzaam — in a cautious manner
- Dutch: omzichtig — in a cautious manner
- Esperanto: singarde — in a cautious manner
- Finnish: varovasti — in a cautious manner
- French: précautionneusement — in a cautious manner
- German: vorsichtig — in a cautious manner
- Hungarian: óvatosan — in a cautious manner
- Italian: cautamente — in a cautious manner
- Italian: prudentemente — in a cautious manner
- Latin: cautim — in a cautious manner
- Latin: tectē — in a cautious manner
- Latin: pedetemptim — in a cautious manner
- Macedonian: претпазливо (pretpazlivo) — in a cautious manner
- Navajo: tʼáá tiʼída — in a cautious manner
- Navajo: tʼáá tłehee — in a cautious manner
- Plautdietsch: behutsom — in a cautious manner
- Polish: ostrożnie — in a cautious manner
- Portuguese: cuidadosamente — in a cautious manner
- Romanian: prudent — in a cautious manner
- Romanian: cu prudență — in a cautious manner
- Romanian: prevăzător — in a cautious manner
- Romanian: cu prevedere — in a cautious manner
- Romanian: precaut — in a cautious manner
- Romanian: cu precauție — in a cautious manner
- Russian: осторо́жно (ostoróžno) — in a cautious manner
- Russian: аккура́тно (akkurátno) — in a cautious manner
- Serbo-Croatian: oprezno — in a cautious manner
- Serbo-Croatian: опрезно — in a cautious manner
- Sicilian: ad aciu — in a cautious manner
- Spanish: precavidamente — in a cautious manner
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