(a.) Attentive to examine probable effects and consequences of acts with a view to avoid danger or misfortune; prudent; circumspect; wary; watchful; as, a cautious general.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a climate in which medical staffs are being sued as a result of their decisions in peer review activities, hospitals' administrative and medical staffs are becoming more cautious in their approach to medical staff privileging.
(2) Since the start of this week, markets have been more cautious, with bond yields in Spain reaching their highest levels in four months on Tuesday amid concern about the scale of the austerity measures being imposed by the government and fears that the country might need a bailout.
(3) He looks set to become a stronger leader than his cautious predecessor, Hu Jintao, but he is no radical reformer, experts say.
(4) Cautious fluid administration and observation for cardiopulmonary deterioration are crucial in management of the critically ill, high-risk group of HELLP syndrome patients with large-volume ascites.
(5) Ready to be fleeced and swamped, I wandered cautiously along Laugavegur past the lovely independent shops, the clean, friendly streets and ended up in a fun hipsterish bar called the Lebowski, where they serve Tuborg and the craft burgers are named things like The Walter (I ordered The Nihilist).
(6) Banks have become particularly cautious of money transfer services such as Western Union , which are perceived as particularly open to abuse.
(7) Merkel is above all a cautious politician who recognises the limits of her power.
(8) But providers are cautious about participating in the Essential Access Community Hospital (EACH) program until final rules are published.
(9) The chancellor deliberately made cautious assumptions for the deficit in the budget, but the 5.6% contraction in the economy has blown an even bigger hole in the public finances than feared in April.
(10) Elderly listeners exhibited less cautious response criteria than did younger listeners.
(11) Cautious welcome for changes DAC’s decisions have had a mixed reception.
(12) Green groups were hostile or reacted cautiously to the report.
(13) Darling, one of the Cabinet's Eeyores, took a more cautious view but even he has been surprised by the length, depth and breadth of the crisis.
(14) The test must therefore be applied cautiously to seronegative animals.
(15) Only selected samples were analyzed in 1973; therefore, these figures should be used only cautiously as trend data.
(16) Yet the mood on Friday night among the hundreds of (very young) party workers and activists was cautious.
(17) Cautious conclusion should advise to use Collins solution when there has not been a long warm ischemia.
(18) Interpretation must be cautious, because these analyses are based on relatively few cases and on single 24-h urine samples.
(19) The cautious study began with small extramarginal skin excisions and progressed gradually via moderate sized juxtamarginal excisions of skin and orbicularis lamella to full-thickness margin-inclusive excisions.
(20) But had it been couched in "more cautious terms or less certain terms may not have been capable of criticism at all".
Curious
Definition:
(a.) Difficult to please or satisfy; solicitous to be correct; careful; scrupulous; nice; exact.
(a.) Exhibiting care or nicety; artfully constructed; elaborate; wrought with elegance or skill.
(a.) Careful or anxious to learn; eager for knowledge; given to research or inquiry; habitually inquisitive; prying; -- sometimes with after or of.
(a.) Exciting attention or inquiry; awakening surprise; inviting and rewarding inquisitiveness; not simple or plain; strange; rare.
Example Sentences:
(1) The curious thing, it seems to me, is that she was never criticised for it.
(2) It was an artwork that fired the imaginations of 2 million visitors who played with, were provoked by and plunged themselves into the curious atmosphere of The Weather Project , with its swirling mist and gigantic mirrors that covered the hall's ceiling.
(3) I believe that truth sets man free.” It was a curious stance for someone who spent many years undercover as a counter-espionage informant, a government propagandist, and unofficial asset of the Central Intelligence Agency.
(4) The curiously double nature of the virgin in this tale, her purity versus her duplicity, seems unquestionably related to the infantile split mother, as elucidated by Klein--a connection explored in an earlier paper.
(5) It was curious in that it was the only thing I was doing that was not directly related to theatre or film.
(6) Curiously, actual modelling conducted by the Housing Industry Association suggests that limiting negative gearing could actually cause house prices to go up.
(7) So it may seem curious that Tina Modotti became one of Mexican Folkways’s official photographers.
(8) Another expanding market in the UK is frozen yogurt and that, curiously, we do seem happy to eat year-round.
(9) Curiously, although the cells of foci in early phases of development did not exhibit dye-transfer capacity, dye-coupling was observed in mass cultures of most transformed cell lines cloned from foci.
(10) Inside the building, the gallery spaces are curiously straightforward.
(11) In ten of these patients clinical evaluation established a diagnosis, for example: drug allergy, food allergy, a curious form of hospital addiction syndrome, an underlying malignancy, systemic mast cell disease or a complement abnormality.
(12) A curious mixture, born in South Africa and living on the Isle of Man, he draws on the oddities of both as a source for gags.
(13) "I find it quite curious that it's Mark Thompson who is leading the charge about News Corp's plurality when the BBC always put their hands up and say we're impartial.
(14) Along with a team of collaborators with curiously close ties throughout a big election and its aftermath.
(15) The tenth case of this curious entity in a diverticulum of urethra in women is presented here.
(16) 7.49pm BST "Living in the States during a World Cup is always fascinating, but this year is even more curious," says Oliver Pattenden.
(17) But it's a curious priority, especially when the mayor himself cycles in everyday clothes and has expressed the hope that other Londoners will, too, as happens in the Netherlands and Denmark.
(18) • Match report: Argentina 2-1 Bosnia-Herzegovina • Match report: Argentina 1-0 Iran • Match report: Argentina 3-2 Nigeria • Match report: Argentina 1-0 Belgium • Match report: Argentina 0-0 Holland (Argentina win 4-2 on pens) 3) Holland ▲1 There was not to be a final masterstroke from Louis van Gaal, whose Holland side deserved its spot in the last four but had a curious tournament.
(19) It seems however, to be due to an immunologic process as shown by the relationship between this curious disease and Goodpasture's syndrome.
(20) All of which makes it curious to find the film's stars abruptly reunited in the airy limbo of a Paris hotel, just south of the Arc de Triomphe.