Circumspect

Adjective

 * 1) Carefully aware of all circumstances; considerate of all that is pertinent.
 * Being aware of the danger of upsetting her audience, she was somewhat circumspect in her comments.

Synonyms for Circumspect

 * cautious, prudent, thoughtful, wary
 * careful, heedful, discreet, judicious, observant, vigilant.

Antonyms for Circumspect
bold, audacious, foolhardy, careless.

Derived terms

 * circumspectly

Related terms

 * circumspection

Thesaurus
ambling, attentive, calculating, canny, careful, cautious, chary, claudicant, considerate, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, curious, deliberate, discreet, discriminating, discriminative, easy, enlightened, faltering, flagging, foot-dragging, gentle, gingerly, gradual, guarded, halting, heedful, hesitant, hobbled, hobbling, idle, indolent, judgmatic, judicial, judicious, languid, languorous, lazy, leaving out nothing, leisurely, limping, loving, lumbering, meticulous, mindful, moderate, noncommittal, on guard, overlooking no possibility, pawky, poking, poky, politic, provident, prudent, prudential, punctilious, reflecting, reflective, regardful, relaxed, reluctant, safe, sauntering, scrupulous, shuffling, 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, strolling, tender, tentative, thorough, thoughtful, toddling, tortoiselike, tottering, trudging, turtlelike, unadventurous, uncommunicative, undaring, unenterprising, unhurried, unprecipitate, waddling, wary, well-advised, well-judged

Etymology
From circumspecto:.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan: circumspecte
 * Chinese:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ,
 * Estonian: ettevaatlik
 * Finnish: ympäripyöreä
 * Finnish: ympäripyöreä


 * German:, umsichtig
 * Hungarian: körültekintő
 * Italian: ,
 * Macedonian: претпазлив
 * Norwegian: omstendelig
 * Polish:
 * Russian: осмотрительный, бдительный