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say it: KER-fuh-lee
carefully is an adverb meaning "taking care or paying attention". It is pronounced /ˈkɛɹfəli/ — KER-fuh-lee. It carries 2 recorded senses.
taking care or paying attention
“they watched carefully”
as if with kid gloves; with caution or prudence or tact
“she ventured cautiously downstairs”
“they handled the incident with kid gloves”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for carefully come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.