Brave vs Careful - What's the difference?
brave | careful |
Strong in the face of fear; courageous.
*1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula), Chapter 21:
*:Do not fret, dear. You must be brave and strong, and help me through the horrible task. If you only knew what an effort it is to me to tell of this fearful thing at all, you would understand how much I need your help.
*1987 , Michael Grumley, The Last Diary :
*:he has been so brave , giving it all a dignity.
(label) Having any sort of superiority or excellence.
*(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
*:Iron is a brave commodity where wood aboundeth.
*(Samuel Pepys) (1633-1703)
*:It being a brave day, I walked to Whitehall.
Making a fine show or display.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:Wear my dagger with the braver grace.
* (1558-1592)
*:For I have gold, and therefore will be brave . / In silks I'll rattle it of every color.
*(Ralph Waldo Emerson) (1803-1882)
*:Frog and lizard in holiday coats / And turtle brave in his golden spots.
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*:So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
A Native American warrior.
A man daring beyond discretion; a bully.
* Dryden
A challenge; a defiance; bravado.
* Shakespeare
To encounter with courage and fortitude, to defy.
* (rfdate), (John Dryden)
* 1773 , A Farmer, Rivington's New-York Gazetteer , Number 53, December 2
(obsolete) To adorn; to make fine or showy.
* (rfdate), Shakespeare
(obsolete) Full of care or grief; sorrowful, sad.
*, Bk.V:
*:‘Alas,’ sayde Sir Cadore, ‘now carefull is myne herte that now lyeth dede my cosyn that I beste loved.’
(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.
Having care (for); attentive to potential danger, error or harm; cautious.
:He was a slow and careful driver.
Conscientious and painstaking; meticulous.
:They made a careful search of the crime scene.
As a verb brave
is .As an adjective careful is
(obsolete) full of care or grief; sorrowful, sad.brave
English
Adjective
(er)Synonyms
* (courageous) doughty, orped, resilient, stalwart. See alsoAntonyms
* (courageous) cowardly, fearful, mean, weakNoun
(en noun)- Hot braves like thee may fight.
- Demetrius, thou dost overween in all; / And so in this, to bear me down with braves .
Verb
- These I can brave , but those I can not bear.
- but they [Parliament] never will be braved into it.
- After braving''' tricks on the high-dive, he '''braved a jump off the first diving platform.
- Thou [a tailor whom Grunio was browbeating] hast braved meny men; brave not me; I'll neither be faced or braved.