CAREFULLY Synonyms: 50 Similar and Opposite Words

carefully

adverb

Definition of carefully

as in conscientiously

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Recent Examples of carefully Your energy is a resource too, and spending it more carefully could improve more than your schedule. — Tarot.com, Chicago Tribune, 19 Sep. 2026 The combination of technology was developed to deliver an exceptionally soft and comfortable ride, while the overall construction was carefully refined to create a premium experience from the moment runners step into the shoe. — Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 18 Sep. 2026 From their perspective, governments have an important responsibility to tread carefully when denying entry to migrants and especially when deporting them. — J. Toby Reiner, The Conversation, 18 Sep. 2026 Throughout Putin’s rule of over a quarter-century, the Communists have criticized some aspects of government policy but carefully avoided any criticism of him. — ABC News, 17 Sep. 2026 In its opening episodes, the series carefully distinguishes Lizzie from her male killer counterparts while highlighting the oppressive conditions women faced in the era. — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 17 Sep. 2026 Rescuers carefully coaxed the snake away from the home and boxed it up for relocation shortly after their arrival. — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2026 That means preserving provenance across generations, separating the ability to design a successor from the authority to instantiate it and auditing evaluators as carefully as models. — Regan Peng, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2026 Garcia recommends carefully going through this storage area and its items. — Jamie Cuccinelli, Martha Stewart, 15 Sep. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for carefully

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One way in which Wounaan do so is conscientiously sharing and redistributing food, money, wisdom and the like to foster equity.

— Chenier Carpio Opua, The Conversation, 5 Aug. 2026
By thinking locally, building conscientiously, and operationalizing sustainability in our deployment choices, AI users, companies, and developers can also help ensure that the infrastructure powering our future doesn’t cost us the earth.

— Sasha Luccioni, Time, 3 July 2026

Definition of conscientiously

Adverb

This analogy is strangely anticlimactic and almost consoling, but a pedestrian ending comes with the territory in a scrupulously realistic book about the inconceivable.

— Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 25 July 2026
The cleats, now scrupulously modeled in 3D simulations, originated as sharp metal nails, the kind sold at a local hardware store.

— Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 2 July 2026

Definition of scrupulously

Adverb

The constant contrast between pristine nature and industrial machinery is accompanied by a discordant synth-heavy score by composer Robert Nacken, that, at times, pushes the film along and, at others, deliberately drags against it.

— Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 16 Sep. 2026
Someone has to decide to deliberately create and nurture the relationships in a new market.

— Wayne Elsey, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of deliberately

Adverb

Riding United is all about being open-minded, according to Vogel, who studies each course meticulously on foot to work out how many strides the pair should take between jumps.

— Danielle Rossingh, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
Spearheaded by the family’s patriarch, a civil engineer who spent five years meticulously guiding its development, it was envisioned as a place with soul, which is inspired by the family’s summers growing up on the island.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of meticulously

Adverb

This year, several projects moved away from a strictly realistic approach, embracing allegory, fantasy, the absurd and even myth.

— Marta Balaga, Variety, 8 Sep. 2026
The president has broad authority to issue pardons and commutations, but the power is strictly limited to federal offenses.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2026

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