different between careful vs perspicacious

English

Alternative forms

• carefull (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English careful, from Old English carful; equivalent to care +? -ful.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k??f?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k?(?)?f?l/

Adjective

careful (comparative more careful, superlative most careful)

1. Taking care; attentive to potential danger, error or harm; cautious.

2. Conscientious and painstaking; meticulous.

3. (obsolete) Full of care or grief; sorrowful, sad.
4. (obsolete) Full of cares or anxiety; worried, troubled.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.1:

     Where through long watch, and late daies weary toile, / She soundly slept, and carefull thoughts did quite assoile.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:cautious
• See also Thesaurus:meticulous

Antonyms

• careless

Derived terms

• carefully
• carefulness

Translations

Anagrams

• acreful

English

Etymology

First attested 1548, from Late Latin perspic?cit?s (“discernment”), from Latin perspicax (“sharp-sighted”), from perspici? (“look through”), from per- (“through”) + speci? (“look at”). See also perspective.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??.sp??ke?.??s/
• (US) enPR: pûr'sp?·k?'sh?s, IPA^(key): /?p???.sp??ke?.??s/
• Rhymes: -e???s
• Hyphenation: per?spi?ca?cious

Adjective

perspicacious (comparative more perspicacious, superlative most perspicacious)

1. (figuratively) Of acute discernment; having keen insight; mentally perceptive.
2. (obsolete) Able to physically see clearly; quick-sighted; sharp-sighted.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• clairvoyant
• conspicuous
• perspective