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Saving vs Careful - What's the difference?

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In obsolete terms the difference between saving and careful

is that saving is exception; reservation while careful is full of cares or anxiety; worried, troubled.

As adjectives the difference between saving and careful

is that saving is that saves someone from damnation; redemptive while careful is full of care or grief; sorrowful, sad.

As a noun saving

is a reduction in cost or expenditure.

As a verb saving

is present participle of lang=en.

As a preposition saving

is with the exception of; except; save.

saving

English

Noun

  • A reduction in cost or expenditure.
  • The shift of the supplier gave us a saving of 10 percent.
  • (countable, usually plural) Something (usually money) that is saved.
  • I invested all my savings in gold.
  • (uncountable) The action of the verb to save.
  • (obsolete) exception; reservation
  • * L'Estrange
  • Contend not with those that are too strong for us, but still with a saving to honesty.

    Verb

    (head)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (theology) That saves someone from damnation; redemptive.
  • Preserving; rescuing.
  • * Bible, Psalms xxviii. 8
  • He is the saving strength of his anointed.
  • Thrifty; frugal.
  • a saving cook
  • * 1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 14:
  • Three of her bairns were drowned at sea, fishing off the Bervie braes they had been, but the fourth, the boy Cospatric, him that died the same day as the Old Queen, he was douce and saving and sensible, and set putting the estate to rights.
  • Bringing back in returns or in receipts the sum expended; incurring no loss, though not gainful.
  • a saving bargain
    The ship has made a saving voyage.
  • Making reservation or exception.
  • a saving clause

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • With the exception of; except; save.
  • * Bible, Revelations ii. 17
  • And in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.
  • Without disrespect to.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Saving your reverence.
  • * Burns
  • Saving your presence.

    Derived terms

    * life savings * saving grace

    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