Usually means: With attention to detail, cautiously.
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  1. carefully: Merriam-Webster
  2. carefully: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. carefully: Collins English Dictionary
  4. carefully: Vocabulary.com
  5. Carefully, carefully: Wordnik
  6. carefully: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. carefully: Wiktionary
  8. Carefully, carefully: Dictionary.com
  9. carefully: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Carefully: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. carefully: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. carefully: Rhymezone
  13. Carefully: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. carefully: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. carefully: FreeDictionary.org
  16. carefully: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. carefully: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. carefully: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  19. carefully: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. carefully: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. carefully: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (carefully)

▸ adverb:  (obsolete) Sorrowfully.
▸ adverb:  With care; attentively, circumspectly.
▸ adverb:  Conscientiously, painstakingly, fastidiously, meticulously

Similar:
cautiously, meticulously, thoughtfully, methodically, rigorously, thoroughly, attentively, diligently, scrupulously, conscientiously, more...

Opposite:
recklessly, carelessly, hastily, thoughtlessly, impulsively

Phrases:
carefully considered, tread carefully, use carefully, You've Got to Be Carefully Taught, passed very carefully, more...

Adjectives:
read, listen, handle, look, choose, note, very, part, think

Colors:
    soft blue,     pastel pink,     light gray,     pale yellow,     soft peach, more...



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Similar:
cautiously, meticulously, thoughtfully, methodically, rigorously, thoroughly, attentively, diligently, scrupulously, conscientiously, more...

Opposite:
recklessly, carelessly, hastily, thoughtlessly, impulsively

Phrases:
carefully considered, tread carefully, use carefully, You've Got to Be Carefully Taught, passed very carefully, walk carefully, studied carefully, enter very carefully, look at carefully, carefully consider, more...

Adjectives:
read, listen, handle, look, choose, note, very, part, think

Colors:
    soft blue,     pastel pink,     light gray,     pale yellow,     soft peach, more...



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