THESAURUS
cautious
alert, ambling, attentive, cagey, calculating, canny, careful, chary, circumspect, claudicant, considerate, cozy, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, curious, deliberate, demurring, diffident, discreet, disinclined to believe, disposed to doubt, easy, expedient, faltering, flagging, foot-dragging, foresighted, forethoughtful, gentle, gingerly, gradual, guarded, halting, hard of belief, heedful, hesitant, hesitating, hobbled, hobbling, idle, impervious to persuasion, inconvincible, incredulous, indolent, jibbing, judicious, languid, languorous, lazy, leaving out nothing, leery, leisurely, limping, loving, lumbering, mindful, moderate, noncommittal, on guard, overlooking no possibility, pawky, poking, poky, politic, precautious, provident, prudent, regardful, relaxed, reluctant, safe, sauntering, scheming, scrupling, shilly-shallying, shrewd, shuffling, shy of belief, skeptical, slack, slothful, slow, slow as death, slow as molasses, slow as slow, slow to act, slow-crawling, slow-foot, slow-going, slow-legged, slow-moving, slow-paced, slow-poky, slow-running, slow-sailing, slow-stepped, sluggish, snail-paced, snaillike, solicitous, staggering, sticking, stickling, straining, strolling, suspecting, suspicious, tender, tentative, thorough, thoughtful, timid, toddling, tortoiselike, tottering, trudging, turtlelike, unadventurous, uncommunicative, unconvincible, uncredulous, undaring, unenterprising, unhurried, unpersuadable, unpersuasible, unprecipitate, unwilling to accept, vigilant, waddling, wary, watchful
ROGET THESAURUS
cautious
Caution
N
caution, cautiousness, discretion, prudence, cautel, heed, circumspection, calculation, deliberation, foresight, vigilance, warning, coolness, self-possession, self-command, presence of mind, sang froid, well-regulated mind, worldly wisdom, Fabian policy,
cautious, wary, guarded, on one's guard, cavendo tutus, in medio tutissimus, vigilant, careful, heedful, cautelous, stealthy, chary, shy of, circumspect, prudent, discreet, politic, sure-footed, unenterprising, unadventurous, cool, steady, self-possessed, overcautious, cautiously, Int, have a care!, timeo Danaos, festina lente, ante victoriam ne canas triumphum, don't sing out victory before the triumph, give, every man thine ear but few thy voice, he who laughs last laughs best, il rit bien qui rit le dernier, ni firmes carta que no leas ni bebas agua que no v, nescit vox missa reverti, love all, trust a few, noli irritare leones, safe bind safe find, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.