Word Meanings - CIRCUMSPECTIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Looking around everi way; cautious; careful of consequences; watchful of danger. "Circumspective eyes." Pope.

Related words: (words related to CIRCUMSPECTIVE)

• LOOKDOWN
  See
• LOOK
  1. To direct the eyes for the purpose of seeing something; to direct the eyes toward an object; to observe with the eyes while keeping them directed; -- with various prepositions, often in a special or figurative sense. See Phrases below. 2. To
• CAREFULLY
  In a careful manner.
• AROUND
  1. In a circle; circularly; on every side; round. 2. In a circuit; here and there within the surrounding space; all about; as, to travel around from town to town. 3. Near; in the neighborhood; as, this man was standing around when the fight took
• WATCHFUL
  Full of watch; vigilant; attentive; careful to observe closely; observant; cautious; -- with of before the thing to be regulated or guarded; as, to be watchful of one's behavior; and with against before the thing to be avoided; as, to be watchful
• LOOKOUT
  1. A careful looking or watching for any object or event. 2. The place from which such observation is made. 3. A person engaged in watching. 4. Object or duty of forethought and care; responsibility.
• CAUTIOUSNESS
  The quality of being cautious.
• DANGERLESS
  Free from danger.
• CIRCUMSPECTIVE
  Looking around everi way; cautious; careful of consequences; watchful of danger. "Circumspective eyes." Pope.
• EVERICH; EVERYCH
  each one; every one; each of two. See Every. Chaucer.
• CAREFULNESS
  Quality or state of being careful.
• LOOKING-GLASS
  A mirror made of glass on which has been placed a backing of some reflecting substance, as quicksilver. There is none so homely but loves a looking-glass. South.
• LOOKER
  One who looks. Looker-on, a spectator; one that looks on, but has no agency or part in an affair. Did not this fatal war affront thy coast, Yet sattest thou an idle looker-on Fairfax.
• CAUTIOUS
  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. Cautious feeling for another's pain. Byron. Be swift to hear; but cautious of
• EVERICHON; EVERYCHON
  Every one. Chaucer.
• DANGER
  difficulty, fr. OF. dagier, dongier , F. danger danger, fr. an assumed LL. dominiarium power, authority, from L. 1. Authority; jurisdiction; control. In dangerhad he . . . the young girls. Chaucer. 2. Power to harm; subjection or liability to
• CAREFUL
  1. Full of care; anxious; solicitous Be careful for nothing. Phil. iv. 6. The careful plowman doubting stands. Milton. 2. Filling with care or colicitube; exposing to concern, anxiety, or trouble; painful. The careful cold beinneth for to creep.
• DANGEROUS
  1. Attended or beset with danger; full of risk; perilous; hazardous; unsafe. Our troops set forth to-morrow; stay with us; The ways are dangerous. Shak. It is dangerous to assert a negative. Macaulay. 2. Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.
• CAUTIOUSLY
  In a cautious manner.
• DANGERFUL
  Full of danger; dangerous. -- Dan"ger*ful*ly, adv. Udall.
• ILL-LOOKING
  Having a bad look; threatening; ugly. See Note under Ill, adv.
• FLOOKAN; FLUKAN
  See FLUCAN
• FLOOKY
  Fluky.
• INCAUTIOUS
  Not cautious; not circumspect; not attending to the circumstances on which safety and interest depend; heedless; careless; as, an incautious step; an incautious remark. You . . . incautious tread On fire with faithless embers overspread. Francis.
• CHEVERIL
  Soft leather made of kid skin. Fig.: Used as a symbol of flexibility. Here's wit of cheveril, that stretches from an inch narrow to an ell broad. Shak.
• DOWNLOOKED
  Having a downcast countenance; dejected; gloomy; sullen. Dryden.
• GOOD-LOOKING
  Handsome.
• FEVERISH
  1. Having a fever; suffering from, or affected with, a moderate degree of fever; showing increased heat and thirst; as, the patient is feverish. 2. Indicating, or pertaining to, fever; characteristic of a fever; as, feverish symptoms.
• ON-LOOKING
  Looking on or forward.
• OVERLOOK
  1. To look down upon from a place that is over or above; to look over or view from a higher position; to rise above, so as to command a view of; as, to overlook a valley from a hill. "The pile o'erlooked the town." Dryden. with burning eye did
• OVERCAREFUL
  Too careful. Shak.