Characterized by careful consideration of all circumstances; cautious and thoughtful about consequences.
From circumspection + -ive, or directly from Latin circumspectus (looking around). The -ive suffix creates adjectives meaning 'tending to' or 'characterized by.'
A circumspective person is like a chess player—they don't just see one move ahead, they scan the whole board before deciding what to do.
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