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English
Pronunciation
Adjective
considerate (comparative more considerate, superlative most considerate)
- Consciously thoughtful and observant (often of other people and their rights, needs, feelings and comfort).
- Synonym: caring
It was very considerate of you to give up your place for your friend.
- Characterised by careful and conscious thought.
- Synonym: deliberate
Antonyms
Derived terms
Translations
thoughtful
- Bulgarian: деликатен (bg) (delikaten), отзивчив (bg) (otzivčiv), внимателен (bg) (vnimatelen)
- Burmese: ညှာ (my) (hnya)
- Catalan: considerat (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 體貼/体贴 (zh) (tǐtiē)
- Czech: ohleduplný (cs) m
- Danish: forekommende, imødekommende
- Dutch: zorgzaam (nl), voorkomend (nl)
- Finnish: avoin (fi), avomielinen (fi), hienotunteinen (fi), huomaavainen (fi)
- French: attentif (fr), attentionné (fr), prévenant (fr)
- German: zuvorkommend (de), rücksichtsvoll (de)
- Hebrew: מתחשב (mitkhashev)
- Hungarian: figyelmes (hu)
- Irish: cásmhar
- Italian: amichevole (it), cordiale (it), disponibile (it)
- Japanese: 思い遣りのある (ja) (おもいやりのある, omoiyari no aru)
- Macedonian: о́бѕирен (óbdziren), внима́телен (vnimátelen), гри́жлив (grížliv), делика́тен (delikáten)
- Maori: tūpore, manawa popore, tūpore, whaiwhakaaro, mākoha, ngākau mahara, manawa popore
- Norwegian: imøtekommende
- Occitan: gent (oc), manhagós, atencionat, atentiu (oc)
- Old English: besċēawod
- Portuguese: atencioso (pt)
- Russian: делика́тный (ru) m (delikátnyj), отзы́вчивый (ru) m (otzývčivyj), приве́тливый (ru) m (privétlivyj), такти́чный (ru) m (taktíčnyj), внима́тельный (ru) m (vnimátelʹnyj) (к другим)
- Spanish: considerado (es)
- Swedish: förekommande (sv), omtänksam (sv), tillmötesgående (sv)
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Verb
considerate (third-person singular simple present considerates, present participle considerating, simple past and past participle considerated)
- (rare) Synonym of consider
Anagrams
Interlingua
Participle
considerate
- past participle of considerar
Italian
Adjective
considerate
- feminine plural of considerato
Verb
considerate
- inflection of considerare:
- second-person plural present
- second-person plural imperative
- feminine plural past participle
Anagrams
Latin
Adverb
cōnsīderātē (comparative cōnsīderātius, superlative cōnsīderātissimē)
- considerately, carefully, cautiously
Verb
cōnsīderāte
- second-person plural present active imperative of cōnsīderō
References
- “considerate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “considerate”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- considerate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to act reasonably, judiciously: prudenter, considerate, consilio agere (opp. temere, nullo consilio, nulla ratione)
Spanish
Verb
considerate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of considerar combined with te