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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CIRCUMSPECT, a. Literally, looking on all sides; looking round. Hence,
Cautious; prudent; watchful on all sides; examining carefully all the circumstances that may affect a determination, or a measure to be adopted.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: heedful of potential consequences; "circumspect actions"; "physicians are now more circumspect about recommending its use"; "a discreet investor" [syn: circumspect, discreet]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French or Latin; Middle French circonspect, from Latin circumspectus, from past participle of circumspicere to look around, be cautious, from circum- + specere to look — more at spy Date: 15th century careful to consider all circumstances and possible consequences ; prudent <diplomacy required a circumspect response> Synonyms: see cautious • circumspection noun • circumspectly adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. wary, cautious; taking everything into account. Derivatives: circumspection n. circumspectly adv. Etymology: ME f. L circumspicere circumspect- (as CIRCUM-, specere spect- look)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Circumspect Cir"cum*spect, a. [L. circumspectus, p. p. of circumspicere to look about one's self, to observe; circum + spicere, specere, to look. See Spy.] Attentive to all the circumstances of a case or the probable consequences of an action; cautious; prudent; wary. Syn: See Cautious.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you are circumspect, you are cautious in what you do and say and do not take risks. (FORMAL) The banks should have been more circumspect in their dealings... = cautious, careful ? reckless ADJ • circumspectly I would suggest that for the time being you behave as circumspectly as possible in political matters. = cautiously ? recklessly ADV: ADV after v

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Cautious, wary, careful, watchful, heedful, considerate, judicious, vigilant, attentive, discreet, prudent, observant.

Moby Thesaurus

ambling, attentive, calculating, canny, careful, cautious, chary, claudicant, considerate, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, curious, deliberate, discreet, discriminating, discriminative, easy, enlightened, faltering, flagging, foot-dragging, gentle, gingerly, gradual, guarded, halting, heedful, hesitant, hobbled, hobbling, idle, indolent, judgmatic, judicial, judicious, languid, languorous, lazy, leaving out nothing, leisurely, limping, loving, lumbering, meticulous, mindful, moderate, noncommittal, on guard, overlooking no possibility, pawky, poking, poky, politic, provident, prudent, prudential, punctilious, reflecting, reflective, regardful, relaxed, reluctant, safe, sauntering, scrupulous, shuffling, slack, slothful, slow, slow as death, slow as molasses, slow as slow, slow to act, slow-crawling, slow-foot, slow-going, slow-legged, slow-moving, slow-paced, slow-poky, slow-running, slow-sailing, slow-stepped, sluggish, snail-paced, snaillike, solicitous, staggering, strolling, tender, tentative, thorough, thoughtful, toddling, tortoiselike, tottering, trudging, turtlelike, unadventurous, uncommunicative, undaring, unenterprising, unhurried, unprecipitate, waddling, wary, well-advised, well-judged