Meaning of GINGERLY
| Pronunciation: | | 'jinjurlee
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- [adv] in a gingerly manner; "gingerly I raised the edge of the blanket"
- [adj] with extreme care or delicacy; "they proceeded with gingerly footwork over the jagged stones"; "the issue was handled only in a gingerly way"- W.S.White
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Gin"ger*ly\, adv. [Prov. E. ginger brittle, tender;
cf. dial. Sw. gingla, g["a]ngla, to go gently, totter, akin
to E. gang.]
Cautiously; timidly; fastidiously; daintily.
What is't that you took up so gingerly ? --Shak.
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| | Related Terms: | | calculating, cannily, canny, careful, carefully, cautious, cautiously, charily, chary, circumspect, circumspectly, considerate, daintily, dainty, deliberate, delicate, delicately, discreet, fastidious, guarded, guardedly, heedful, hesitant, judicious, leaving out nothing, mindful, nervous, noncommittal, on guard, overlooking no possibility, pawky, politic, prudent, regardful, safe, shy, shyly, slow to act, squeamish, tentative, tentatively, thorough, timid, timidly, timorous, timorously, unadventurous, uncommunicative, undaring, unenterprising, unprecipitate, warily, wary, watchful |
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