Careful vs Perspicacious - What's the difference?

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Careful is a related term of perspicacious.

As adjectives the difference between careful and perspicacious

is that careful is (obsolete) full of care or grief; sorrowful, sad while perspicacious is (figuratively) of acute discernment; having keen insight; mentally perceptive.

careful

English

Alternative forms

* carefull (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)

(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.

Synonyms

* See also * See also

Antonyms

* careless

Derived terms

* carefully

perspicacious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

(figuratively) Of acute discernment; having keen insight; mentally perceptive.

(obsolete) Able to physically see clearly; quick-sighted; sharp-sighted.

Derived terms

* perspicaciously * perspicaciousness