1 taking care; being cautious -- forsiktig, varsom, påpasselig
2 thorough -- grundig, omhyggelig
a careful search.
This tailoring of approaches to suit his intended audience depended upon a careful appreciation of the desires of each party and strict secrecy.
This study demonstrates that careful adaptation to sea level rise can reduce the cost of coastal impacts dramatically.
At the same time, the need for careful linguistic description is as urgent as ever, for the dual purposes of scientific inquiry and clinical application.
Its ethos was one of careful reflection and of enjoying ideas and communicating them.
Future editions of still unpublished works, and careful studies of already published writings, hopefully will make a comprehensive account of this subject possible.
In political science, the task is more difficult, and requires either comparative analysis or the careful use of counterfactual scenarios.
These variations in techniques probably represent areas where standards of care are yet to be established by careful collection of data.
The causal role of phonology in visual word recognition is difficult to establish unambiguously even after many years of careful research.
