Careful vs Strenuous - What's the difference?
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(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.
Urgent, ardent, zealous.
Requiring great exertion.
* 1961 : J. A. Philip. Mimesis in the ''Sophistês'' of Plato . In: Proceedings and Transactions of the American Philological Association 92. p. 467.
Careful is a related term of strenuous.
As adjectives the difference between careful and strenuous
is that careful is (obsolete) full of care or grief; sorrowful, sad while strenuous is urgent, ardent, zealous.careful
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Alternative forms
* carefull (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
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* carelessDerived terms
* carefullystrenuous
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Adjective
(en adjective)- We can achieve this god?likeness only by unremitting and strenuous effort of the intellect.