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considerate

See also: considérate

English

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Pronunciation

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Adjective

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considerate (comparative more considerate, superlative most considerate)

  1. 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.
  2. Characterised by careful and conscious thought.
    Synonym: deliberate

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Verb

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considerate (third-person singular simple present considerates, present participle considerating, simple past and past participle considerated)

  1. (rare) Synonym of consider.

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Interlingua

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Participle

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considerate

  1. past participle of considerar

Italian

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Adjective

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considerate

  1. feminine plural of considerato

Verb

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considerate

  1. inflection of considerare:
    1. second-person plural present
    2. second-person plural imperative
    3. feminine plural past participle

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Latin

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Etymology 1

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Latin cōnsīderātus
Latin -ē
Latin cōnsīderātē

    From cōnsīderātus + -ē.

    Adverb

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    cōnsīderātē (comparative cōnsīderātius, superlative cōnsīderātissimē)

    1. considerately, carefully, cautiously

    Etymology 2

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    See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

    Verb

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    cōnsīderāte

    1. second-person plural present active imperative of cōnsīderō

    References

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    • “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[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
      • (ambiguous) to act reasonably, judiciously: prudenter, considerate, consilio agere (opp. temere, nullo consilio, nulla ratione)

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    Verb

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    considerate

    1. second-person singular voseo imperative of considerar combined with te
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