cautious

«cautious» in Mova's school dictionary: Careful to avoid danger, risks or mistakes — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (cautious; more cautious, most cautious)

meaning for a pupil

1) Careful to avoid danger, risks or mistakes. tree →

2) Slow to decide or to trust, as in «cautious about strangers». tree →

sense in the lessons

In safety lessons it describes good behaviour: be cautious near roads, water, fire and online. In stories it tells the reader a character is careful, maybe nervous. In maths and science, a cautious estimate is a careful one that does not overclaim. Phrases: «be cautious about», «cautious optimism».

examples

• Be cautious when crossing a busy road. tree →
• The cat was cautious around the new puppy. tree →
• She is cautious about talking to strangers online. tree →
• He took a cautious step onto the ice. tree →
• The cautious driver slowed down in the fog. tree →
• Scientists were cautious about the early results. tree →
• My cautious guess is about 50 sweets in the jar. tree →
• The Fox came too, but he was very cautious about it. tree →

note

Adjective. Adverb: cautiously; noun: caution. Spelling: c-a-u-t-i-o-u-s, with «au» and «-tious». Opposites: careless, reckless, bold.

In the corpora

• Rats are cautious with new food: they nibble a little and wait to see whether they feel ill.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «cautious» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.