Words that rhyme with careful

  • cheerful
    adj 1: being full of or promoting cheer; having or showing good spirits; "her cheerful nature"; "a cheerful greeting"; "a cheerful room"; "as cheerful as anyone confined to a hospital bed could be" [ant: cheerless, depressing, uncheerful] 2: pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic [syn: cheerful, pollyannaish, upbeat]
  • fearful
    adj 1: experiencing or showing fear; "a fearful glance"; "fearful of criticism" 2: causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse" [syn: awful, dire, direful, dread(a), dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible] 3: lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted; "cowardly dogs, ye will not aid me then"- P.B.Shelley [syn: cowardly, fearful] [ant: brave, courageous] 4: extremely distressing; "fearful slum conditions"; "a frightful mistake" [syn: fearful, frightful] 5: timid by nature or revealing timidity; "timorous little mouse"; "in a timorous tone"; "cast fearful glances at the large dog" [syn: fearful, timorous, trepid]
  • playful
    adj 1: full of fun and high spirits; "playful children just let loose from school" [ant: serious, sober, unplayful]
  • prayerful
    adj 1: disposed to pray or appearing to pray
  • tearful
    adj 1: filled with or marked by tears; "tearful eyes"; "tearful entreaties" [ant: dry-eyed, tearless] 2: showing sorrow [syn: dolorous, dolourous, lachrymose, tearful, weeping]
  • colorful
    adj 1: having striking color; "colorful autumn leaves" [syn: colorful, colourful] [ant: colorless, colourless] 2: striking in variety and interest; "a colorful period of history"; "a colorful character"; "colorful language" [syn: colorful, colourful] [ant: colorless, colourless] 3: having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination; "colored crepe paper"; "the film was in color"; "amber-colored heads of grain" [syn: colored, coloured, colorful] [ant: uncolored, uncoloured]
  • overcareful
    adj 1: excessively or unduly careful [syn: overcareful, too- careful]

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