Circumspect \Cir"cum*spect\, a. [L. circumspectus, p. p. of
circumspicere to look about one's self, to observe; circum +
spicere, specere, to look. See Spy.]
Attentive to all the circumstances of a case or the probable
consequences of an action; cautious; prudent; wary.
Syn: See Cautious.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
circumspect
adj : heedful of potential consequences; "circumspect actions";
"physicians are now more circumspect about recommending
its use"; "a discreet investor" [syn: discreet]
WordNet (r) 2.0
109 Moby Thesaurus words for "circumspect":
ambling, attentive, calculating, canny, careful, cautious, chary,
claudicant, considerate, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail,
curious, deliberate, discreet, discriminating, discriminative,
easy, enlightened, faltering, flagging, foot-dragging, gentle,
gingerly, gradual, guarded, halting, heedful, hesitant, hobbled,
hobbling, idle, indolent, judgmatic, judicial, judicious, languid,
languorous, lazy, leaving out nothing, leisurely, limping, loving,
lumbering, meticulous, mindful, moderate, noncommittal, on guard,
overlooking no possibility, pawky, poking, poky, politic,
provident, prudent, prudential, punctilious, reflecting,
reflective, regardful, relaxed, reluctant, safe, sauntering,
scrupulous, shuffling, 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, strolling, tender,
tentative, thorough, thoughtful, toddling, tortoiselike, tottering,
trudging, turtlelike, unadventurous, uncommunicative, undaring,
unenterprising, unhurried, unprecipitate, waddling, wary,
well-advised, well-judged
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
discreet
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