Careful and Smart

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Careful adjective - Having or showing a close attentiveness to avoiding danger or trouble.

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Smart and careful are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Smart" instead an adjective "Careful".

Smart adjective - Being strikingly neat and trim in style or appearance.

Usage example: dressed in their smart new uniforms, the cadets proudly paraded around the grounds of the military school

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Careful and smart are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Careful" instead an adjective "Smart".

Nearby Words: smarten, smartness, smartly

If you're a smart and careful player, you can keep enough chests filled with Rupees to buy off all the upgrades the very moment they come available.

Source: Money for Nothing
Smug Snake: Bob believed that he was so careful and smart that the police were nowhere near catching him, but Holt Ramsey's hunch might have led to an arrest eventually.

Source: Literature / Full Dark, No Stars
Sometimes they get to be careful and smart about the choice of object, but sometimes it's a spur-of-the-moment monster creation, so you get... killer inner tubes, purses of doom with weapons made from whatever items happened to be inside, and evil brick walls.

Source: Improvised Golems

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