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Where does “cautious” come from?

cautious (English) comes from English caution — Precept or warning against evil or danger of any...

cautious (English): careful; using or exercising caution; tentative

Definitions

  1. careful; using or exercising caution; tentative

Ancestry of “cautious”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishcautionPrecept or warning against evil or danger of any...

Words derived from “cautious”

  • cautiously
  • incautious
  • incautiously
  • cautiousness
  • overcautious
  • incautiousness
  • overcautiousness
  • uncautious
  • uncautiously
  • hypercautious
  • supercautious
  • ultracautious
  • overcautiously
  • supercautiously
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