Word Meanings - CARE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. A burdensome sense of responsibility; trouble caused by onerous duties; anxiety; concern; solicitude. Care keeps his wath in every old man's eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie. Shak. 2. Charge, oversight, or management, implying
Additional info about word: CARE
1. A burdensome sense of responsibility; trouble caused by onerous duties; anxiety; concern; solicitude. Care keeps his wath in every old man's eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie. Shak. 2. Charge, oversight, or management, implying responsibility for safety and prosperity. The care of all the churches. 2 Car. xi. 28 Him thy care must be to find. Milton. Perlexed with a thousand cares. Shak. 3. Attention or heed; caution; regard; heedfulness; watchfulness; as, take care; have a care. I thank thee for thy care and honest pains. Shak. 4. The object of watchful attention or anxiety. Right sorrowfully mourning her bereaved cares. Spenser. Syn. -- Anxiety; solicitude; concern; caution; regard; management; direction; oversight. -- Care, Anxiety, Solicitude, Concern. These words express mental pain in different degress. Care belongs primarily to the intellect, and becomes painful from overburdened thought. Anxiety denotes a state of distressing uneasiness fron the dread of evil. Solicitude expresses the same feeling in a diminished dagree. Concern is opposed to indifference, and implies exercise of anxious thought more or less intense. We are careful about the means, solicitous and anxious about the end; we are solicitous to obtain a good, axious to avoid an evil.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CARE)
- Anxiety
- Care
- trouble
- eagerness
- disquiet
- apprehension
- carefulness
- diffidence
- solicitude
- misgiving
- Attention
- Observation
- notice
- regard
- watchfulness
- heed
- consideration
- circumspection
- study
- vigilance
- care
- Beware
- refrain
- consider
- look
- fear
- avoid
- Calculation
- Estimation
- balance
- apportionment
- investigation
- reckoning
- computation
- anticipation
- forethought
- caution
- Diligence
- assiduity
- attention
- application
- industry
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CARE)
- Miss
- overlook
- disregard
- despise
- dislike
- contemn
- hate
- loathe
- misconsider
- misconceive
- misestimate
- misjudge
- Compose
- calm
- allay
- appease
- please
- soothe
- delight
- gratify
- recreate
- entertain
- relieve
- refresh
Related words: (words related to CARE)
- DISREGARDFULLY
Negligently; heedlessly. - CAUTIONARY BLOCK
A block in which two or more trains are permitted to travel, under restrictions imposed by a caution card or the like. - DELIGHTING
Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor. - MISJUDGE
To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue. - INVESTIGATION
The act of investigating; the process of inquiring into or following up; research; study; inquiry, esp. patient or thorough inquiry or examination; as, the investigations of the philosopher and the mathematician; the investigations of the judge, - TROUBLER
One who troubles or disturbs; one who afflicts or molests; a disturber; as, a troubler of the peace. The rich troublers of the world's repose. Waller. - DISQUIETTUDE
Want of peace or tranquility; uneasiness; disturbance; agitation; anxiety. Fears and disquietude, and unavoidable anxieties of mind. Abp. Sharp. - CONSIDERINGLY
With consideration or deliberation. - RECKONER
One who reckons or computes; also, a book of calculation, tables, etc., to assist in reckoning. Reckoners without their host must reckon twice. Camden. - DISQUIETLY
In a disquiet manner; uneasily; as, he rested disquietly that night. Wiseman. - DELIGHTLESS
Void of delight. Thomson. - DIFFIDENCE
1. The state of being diffident; distrust; want of confidence; doubt of the power, ability, or disposition of others. That affliction grew heavy upon me, and weighed me down even to a diffidence of God's mercy. Donne. 2. Distrust of one's self - APPREHENSION
1. The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension. Sir T. Browne. 2. The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; as, the felon, after his apprehension, escaped. 3. The act of grasping with the - MISGIVING
Evil premonition; doubt; distrust. "Suspicious and misgivings." South. - COMPUTATION
1. The act or process of computing; calculation; reckoning. By just computation of the time. Shak. By a computation backward from ourselves. Bacon. 2. The result of computation; the amount computed. Syn. -- Reckoning; calculation; estimate; - NOTICE
1. The act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note. How ready is envy to mingle with the notices we take of other persons ! I. Watts. 2. Intelligence, by whatever means communicated; knowledge - STUDY
1. To apply the mind to; to read and examine for the purpose of learning and understanding; as, to study law or theology; to study languages. 2. To consider attentively; to examine closely; as, to study the work of nature. Study thyself; what rank - DISQUIETMENT
State of being disquieted; uneasiness; harassment. Hopkins. - SOLICITUDE
The state of being solicitous; uneasiness of mind occasioned by fear of evil or desire good; anxiety. The many cares and great labors of worldly men, their solicitude and outward shows. Sir W. Raleigh. The mother looked at her with fond solicitude. - COMPOSE
To arrange in a composing stick in order for printing; to set . (more info) 1. To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion. Zeal ought to be composed of the hidhest degrees of all - MISCOMPUTATION
Erroneous computation; false reckoning. - RECKON
reckon, G. rechnen, OHG. rahnjan), and to E. reck, rake an implement; the original sense probably being, to bring together, count together. 1. To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate. The priest shall reckon to him the - OVERTROUBLED
Excessively troubled. - UNCONSIDERED
Not considered or attended to; not regarded; inconsiderable; trifling. A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. Shak. - REAPPLICATION
The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied. - DECOMPOSE
To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay. - REAPPORTIONMENT
A second or a new apportionment.