As Dr. House said, choosing a doctor, you choose a diagnosis. The same goes for words and phrases. For example, the phrase “be careful” can be interpreted differently by people of different professions or hobbies. A lover of rock music will immediately remember the composition of Viktor Tsoi “Watch Yourself”, and the philologist will mentally divide the phrase into components and understand that the verb is in the imperative mood, and next to it is an adjective. But we will not talk about the differences between people, but about the subtleties of the meaning of the phrase.
Meaning of adjective and sentence
The imperative mood in this sense makes it possible to ask or order to be careful. But what does the latter mean? To understand this, let's look in the explanatory dictionary and find out the meaning of the adjective:
- Foreseeing possible danger.
- Restrained, careful, not rude.
It must be said that when people are called to be careful, they usually think of the first sense of the adjective. True, you can easilypresent scenarios for the development of events when it comes to fragile objects and their safety. Let's make the appropriate sentences and thus kill two birds with one stone:
- Be careful with this vase, it's 2,000 years old.
- Never make serious deals with people you don't trust. Be careful with them. Otherwise, you can get into big trouble, got it?
- Be careful with your wishes, because they can come true.
- Be careful with desires, take care of them from the harsh reality. Life is usually tough on our dreams.
The last two sentences deliberately use the single main noun "desire" to show how the context changes the meaning of the word. Hopefully this was a relief example.
Caution as a character trait
Some people don't need a warning. Because they fit the definition of "cautious person." Of course, when we are not talking about borderline, crisis situations, then this type of person can even be considered paranoid: he worries about something all the time, worries, thinks that there are enemies or ill-wishers around.
It's different when it comes to war. I remember the movie "Braveheart" (1995), when the enemies talked about William Wallace, that he has a well-developed intuition, he has a fantastic sense of traps. In the end, as we know, he was tricked into a trap. But being overly trusting and in peacetime can not beworth it, because reality is full of all sorts of good fellows who are ready to deceive an honest worker, without even starting, perhaps, the law. So the reader can only say: “Be careful!”
Synonyms for adverbs
Our area of interest includes another part of the speech that we can not miss in any way - this is the adverb "carefully". We will select replacements for it, which, on occasion, the reader can use if he discovers the poverty of his vocabulary:
- carefully;
- carefully;
- incredulous;
- suspicious;
- prudent;
- reasonable;
- he althy;
- prudently;
- calculated.
As you can see, most of the list with synonyms "carefully" are analogues for the first meaning of the adjective, and the second meaning is in a clear minority. But we hope this does not prevent the reader from using both equally.
