different between careful vs strenuous

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

From Latin strenuus (“quick”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st??nju?s/
• Hyphenation: stren?u?ous

Adjective

strenuous (comparative more strenuous, superlative most strenuous)

1. Having great vigour or energy; forceful.

   Synonyms: ardent, earnest, eager, energetic, determined, resolute, vigorous, zealous

2. (of a task) Requiring great exertion; very laborious
   • 1961: J. A. Philip. Mimesis in the Sophistês of Plato. In: Proceedings and Transactions of the American Philological Association 92. p. 467.

     We can achieve this god?likeness only by unremitting and strenuous effort of the intellect.

Derived terms

Related terms

• strenuity
• strenuosity

Translations

Further reading

• strenuous in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• strenuous in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• strenuous at OneLook Dictionary Search