Word Meanings - CIRCUMSPECTLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a circumspect manner; cautiously; warily.

Related words: (words related to CIRCUMSPECTLY)

• CIRCUMSPECTNESS
  Vigilance un guarding against evil from every quarter; caution. forces circumspectness on those abroad, who at home are nursed in security. Sir H. Wotton.
• WARILY
  In a wary manner.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• CIRCUMSPECTIVE
  Looking around everi way; cautious; careful of consequences; watchful of danger. "Circumspective eyes." Pope.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• CIRCUMSPECT
  Attentive to all the circustances of a case or the probable consequences of an action; cautious; prudent; wary. Syn. -- See Cautious. (more info) look about one's self, to observe; circum + spicere, specere, to
• CAUTIOUSLY
  In a cautious manner.
• CIRCUMSPECTLY
  In a circumspect manner; cautiously; warily.
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• MANNERED
  1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
• MANNER
  manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner
• CIRCUMSPECTION
  Attention to all the facts and circumstances of a case; caution; watchfulness. With silent circumspection, unespied. Milton. Syn. -- Caution; prudence; watchfulness; deliberation; thoughtfulness; wariness; forecast.
• MANNERCHOR
  A German men's chorus or singing club.
• MANNERLY
  Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak.
• CIRCUMSPECTIVELY
  Circumspectly.
• UNWARILY
  In an unwary manner.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• INCIRCUMSPECT
  Not circumspect; heedless; careless; reckless; impolitic. Tyndale.
• UNCAUTIOUSLY
  Incautiously.
• ILL-MANNERED
  Impolite; rude.
• WELL-MANNERED
  Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.
• INCIRCUMSPECTION
  Want of circumspection. Sir T. Browne.