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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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}.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  109 Moby Thesaurus words for "circumspect":
     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
  
  

















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