Gingerly

Adverb

 * 1) Gently; in a delicate or cautious manner.
 * He placed the glass jar gingerly on the concrete step.

Adjective

 * 1)  Ginger.
 * 2) * 1886, Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge
 * ...penetrating cautiously into dark cellars, sallying forth with gingerly tread to the garden, now leaf-strewn by autumn winds...

Thesaurus
calculating, cannily, canny, careful, carefully, cautious, cautiously, charily, chary, circumspect, circumspectly, considerate, daintily, dainty, deliberate, delicate, delicately, discreet, fastidious, guarded, guardedly, heedful, hesitant, judicious, leaving out nothing, mindful, nervous, noncommittal, on guard, overlooking no possibility, pawky, politic, prudent, regardful, safe, shy, shyly, slow to act, squeamish, tentative, tentatively, thorough, timid, timidly, timorous, timorously, unadventurous, uncommunicative, undaring, unenterprising, unprecipitate, warily, wary, watchful

Etymology
(1510) Maybe from gensor:, comparative of gent:, from  gentius:

Adverb

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Chinese: 轻手轻脚 (qīngshǒuqīngjiǎo)
 * Danish: varsomt, forsigtigt
 * Finnish:


 * French: ,
 * Norwegian:, , ,
 * Romanian: cu precauție, cu băgare de seamă

Anagrams

 * niggerly