CAUTIOUS

[`kɔːʃəs]

осторожный, осмотрительный, предусмотрительный

cautious: translation

▪ be

▪ become, get, grow

▪ remain

▪ make sb

▪

Her experiences have made her cautious.

▪ extremely, fairly, very, etc.

▪ excessively, overly, too, unduly

▪

He accused the government of being unduly cautious.

▪ deliberately

▪ a little, slightly, etc.

▪ about

▪

cautious about spending money

▪ of

▪

He warned us to be cautious of accepting their statements as fact.

Cautious is used with these nouns: ↑approach, ↑eye, ↑investor, ↑look, ↑optimism, ↑sip, ↑stance, ↑welcome

cautious: translation

cautious cau‧tious [ˈkɔːʆəs ǁ ˈkɒː-] adjective

if buyers or investors are cautious, they are unwilling to buy because they feel uncertain about the future:

cautious UK US /ˈkɔːʃəs/ adjective

► very careful about what you do or say and unwilling to take risks because you want to avoid possible problems: be cautious about sth/about doing sth »

Businesses have become cautious about spending on technology.

a cautious approach/strategy »

He said the group would continue its cautious approach to expanding in Japan until it better understood the market.

● cautious optimism — Cf. cautious optimism

cautiously adverb

► »

Textile and garment companies in China reacted cautiously to the announcement.

cautious: translation

alert, ambling, attentive, cagey, calculating, canny, careful, chary, circumspect, claudicant, considerate, cozy, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, curious, deliberate, demurring, diffident, discreet, disinclined to believe, disposed to doubt, easy, expedient, faltering, flagging, foot-dragging, foresighted, forethoughtful, gentle, gingerly, gradual, guarded, halting, hard of belief, heedful, hesitant, hesitating, hobbled, hobbling, idle, impervious to persuasion, inconvincible, incredulous, indolent, jibbing, judicious, languid, languorous, lazy, leaving out nothing, leery, leisurely, limping, loving, lumbering, mindful, moderate, noncommittal, on guard, overlooking no possibility, pawky, poking, poky, politic, precautious, provident, prudent, regardful, relaxed, reluctant, safe, sauntering, scheming, scrupling, shilly-shallying, shrewd, shuffling, shy of belief, skeptical, slack, slothful, slow, slow as death, slow as molasses, slow as slow, slow to act, slow-crawling, slow-foot, slow-going, slow-legged, slow-moving, slow-paced, slow-poky, slow-running, slow-sailing, slow-stepped, sluggish, snail-paced, snaillike, solicitous, staggering, sticking, stickling, straining, strolling, suspecting, suspicious, tender, tentative, thorough, thoughtful, timid, toddling, tortoiselike, tottering, trudging, turtlelike, unadventurous, uncommunicative, unconvincible, uncredulous, undaring, unenterprising, unhurried, unpersuadable, unpersuasible, unprecipitate, unwilling to accept, vigilant, waddling, wary, watchful

осторожный, осмотрительный; предусмотрительный

cautious [ˊkɔ:ʃəs] a

осторо́жный; предусмотри́тельный

• Cautious seldom cry (The) - Береженого Бог бережет (Б), Осторожного коня и зверь не берет (O)

1) бережный