Word Meanings - CONSIDERATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Given to consideration or to sober reflection; regardful of consequences or circumstances; circumspect; careful; esp. careful of the rights, claims, and feelings of other. Of dauntless courage and considerate pride. Milton. considerate, and

Additional info about word: CONSIDERATE

1. Given to consideration or to sober reflection; regardful of consequences or circumstances; circumspect; careful; esp. careful of the rights, claims, and feelings of other. Of dauntless courage and considerate pride. Milton. considerate, and careful of his people. Dryden. The wisest and most considerate men in the world. Sharp. 2. Having respect to; regardful. They may be . . . more considerate of praise. Dr. H. More. Syn. -- Thoughtful; reflective; careful; discreet; prudent; deliberate; serious. See Thoughtful. -- Con*sid"er*ate*ly, adv. -- Con*sid"er*ate*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONSIDERATE)

• Advertent
• Attentive
• regardful
• mindful
• watchful
• thoughtful
• observant
• considerate
• Charitable
• Kind
• benign
• benevolent
• beneficent
• liberal
• forgiving
• compassionate
• placable
• inexacting
• inextreme
• Heedful
• Mindful
• careful
• cautious
• wary
• circumspect
• Obliging
• compliant
• complaisant
• accommodating
• Provident
• Forecasting
• foreseeing

Related words: (words related to CONSIDERATE)

• COMPASSIONATELY
  In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
• INEXACTLY
  In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately. R. A. Proctor.
• CIRCUMSPECTNESS
  Vigilance un guarding against evil from every quarter; caution. forces circumspectness on those abroad, who at home are nursed in security. Sir H. Wotton.
• OBLIGABLE
  Acknowledging, or complying with, obligation; trustworthy. The main difference between people seems to be, that one man can come under obligations on which you can rely, -- is obligable; and another is not. Emerson.
• INEXACT
  Not exact; not precisely correct or true; inaccurate.
• BENEFICENT
  , a. Doing or producing good; performing acts of kindness and charity; characterized by beneficence. The beneficent fruits of Christianity. Prescott. Syn. -- See Benevolent.
• OBLIGER
  One who, or that which, obliges. Sir H. Wotton.
• LIBERALIZE
  To make liberal; to free from narrow views or prejudices. To open and to liberalize the mind. Burke.
• FORESEE
  1. To see beforehand; to have prescience of; to foreknow. A prudent man foreseeth the evil. Prov. xxii. 3. 2. To provide. Great shoals of people, which go on to populate, without foreseeing means of life. Bacon.
• CHARITABLENESS
  The quality of being charitable; the exercise of charity.
• BENEVOLENT
  Having a disposition to do good; possessing or manifesting love to mankind, and a desire to promote their prosperity and happiness; disposed to give to good objects; kind; charitable. -- Be*nev"o*lent*ly, adv. Syn. -- Benevolent, Beneficent.
• OBLIGEMENT
  Obligation. I will not resist, therefore, whatever it is, either of divine or human obligement, that you lay upon me. Milton.
• BENEFICENTLY
  In a beneficent manner; with beneficence.
• FORGIVER
  One who forgives. Johnson.
• LIBERALISTIC
  Pertaining to, or characterized by, liberalism; as, liberalistic opinions.
• OBSERVANTLY
  In an observant manner.
• COMPLIANT
  Yielding; bending; pliant; submissive. "The compliant boughs." Milton.
• CAREFULLY
  In a careful manner.
• WATCHFUL
  Full of watch; vigilant; attentive; careful to observe closely; observant; cautious; -- with of before the thing to be regulated or guarded; as, to be watchful of one's behavior; and with against before the thing to be avoided; as, to be watchful
• FORGIVING
  Disposed to forgive; inclined to overlook offenses; mild; merciful; compassionate; placable; as, a forgiving temper. -- For*giv"ing*ly, adv. -- For*giv"ing*ness, n. J. C. Shairp.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• UNPLACABLE
  Implacable.
• ILLIBERALISM
  Illiberality.
• UNFORESEE
  To fail to foresee. Bp. Hacket.
• ILLIBERALNESS
  The state of being illiberal; illiberality.
• INCOMPASSIONATE
  Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n.
• INCAUTIOUS
  Not cautious; not circumspect; not attending to the circumstances on which safety and interest depend; heedless; careless; as, an incautious step; an incautious remark. You . . . incautious tread On fire with faithless embers overspread. Francis.