CAREFULLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does carefully mean? 

• CAREFULLY (adverb)
  The adverb CAREFULLY has 2 senses:

1. taking care or paying attention

2. as if with kid gloves; with caution or prudence or tact

  Familiarity information: CAREFULLY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAREFULLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Taking care or paying attention

Context example:

they watched carefully

Pertainym:

careful (exercising caution or showing care or attention)

Sense 2

Meaning:

As if with kid gloves; with caution or prudence or tact

Synonyms:

carefully; cautiously

Context example:

they handled the incident with kid gloves

Antonym:

carelessly (without caution or prudence)

Pertainym:

careful (exercising caution or showing care or attention)

 Context examples 

Holmes put the slip of paper carefully away into his pocket-book.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He passed a towel over it and looked again, long and carefully.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The Scarecrow listened carefully, and said, "I cannot understand why you should wish to leave this beautiful country and go back to the dry, gray place you call Kansas."

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Also, examine your bank and credit card statements carefully for errors or unauthorized charges, for they tend to show up in greater frequency during Mercury retrograde periods.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I have carefully perused them three times.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

They were carefully examined, and showed that he was a keen student of international politics, an indefatigable gossip, a remarkable linguist, and an untiring letter writer.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Having measured these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then he knocked the ashes from his pipe, carefully refilled it, and after a thoughtful pause, lighted it again.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

I watched him, breathing carefully so that he should not hear me.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Mrs. Bennet had so carefully provided for the entertainment of her brother and sister, that they did not once sit down to a family dinner.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)