Word Meanings - OVERCAUTIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Too cautious; cautious or prudent to excess. -- O"ver*cau"tious*ly, adv. -- O"ver*cau"tiou*ness, n.

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• CAUTIOUSNESS
  The quality of being cautious.
• PRUDENT
  1. Sagacious in adapting means to ends; circumspect in action, or in determining any line of conduct; practically wise; judicious; careful; discreet; sensible; -- opposed to rash; as, a prudent man; dictated or directed by prudence or
• EXCESS
  out, loss of self-possession, fr. excedere, excessum, to go out, go 1. The state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or prover; immoderateness;
• EXCESSIVE
  Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch. Excessive grief the enemy to the living. Shak. Syn. -- Undue; exorbitant; extreme; overmuch; enormous; immoderate; monstrous; intemperate; unreasonable. See Enormous --Ex*cess*ive*ly,
• PRUDENTIAL
  1. Proceeding from, or dictated or characterized by, prudence; prudent; discreet; sometimes, selfish or pecuniary as distinguished from higher motives or influences; as, prudential motives. " A prudential line of conduct." Sir W. Scott.
• PRUDENTIALIST
  One who is governed by, or acts from, prudential motives. Coleridge.
• PRUDENTIALITY
  The quality or state of being prudential. Sir T. Browne.
• 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
• PRUDENTIALLY
  In a prudential manner; prudently. South.
• CAUTIOUSLY
  In a cautious manner.
• PRUDENTLY
  In a prudent manner.
• ASCITITIOUS
  Supplemental; not inherent or original; adscititious; additional; assumed. Homer has been reckoned an ascititious name. Pope.
• CONCUPISCENTIOUS
  Concupiscent.
• INFECTIOUSLY
  In an infectious manner. Shak.
• COMBUSTIOUS
  Inflammable. Shak.
• VITIOUS; VITIOUSLY; VITIOUSNESS
  See VICIOUSNESS
• FACTIOUS
  1. Given to faction; addicted to form parties and raise dissensions, in opposition to government or the common good; turbulent; seditious; prone to clamor against public measures or men; -- said of persons. Factious for the house of Lancaster.
• INIMICITIOUS
  Inimical; unfriendly. Sterne.
• TRALATITIOUS
  1. Passed along; handed down; transmitted. Among biblical critics a tralatitious interpretation is one received by expositor from expositor. W. Withington. 2. Metaphorical; figurative; not literal. Stackhouse.
• EMISSITIOUS
  Looking, or narrowly examining; prying. "Those emissitious eyes." Bp. Hall.
• 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.
• CONTENTIOUS
  Contested; litigated; litigious; having power to decide controversy. Contentious jurisdiction , jurisdiction over matters in controversy between parties, in contradistinction to voluntary jurisdiction, or that exercised upon matters not opposed
• IMPRUDENT
  Not prudent; wanting in prudence or discretion; indiscreet; injudicious; not attentive to consequence; improper. -- Im*pru"dent*ly, adv. Her majesty took a great dislike at the imprudent behavior of many of the ministers and readers. Strype. Syn.
• CAPTIOUSNESS
  Captious disposition or manner.
• AMBITIOUSNESS
  The quality of being ambitious; ambition; pretentiousness.
• ARREPTITIOUS
  Snatched away; seized or possessed, as a demoniac; raving; mad; crack-brained. Odd, arreptitious, frantic extravagances. Howell.
• COLLATITIOUS
  Brought together; contributed; done by contributions. Bailey.
• DIREPTITIOUSLY
  With plundering violence; by violent injustice. Strype.
• CONSCIENTIOUSNESS
  The quality of being conscientious; a scrupulous regard to the dictates of conscience.
• REPERTITIOUS
  Found; gained by finding.
• UMBRATIOUS
  Suspicious; captious; disposed to take umbrage. Sir H. Wotton.