The Collaborative International Dictionary
Considerate \Con*sid"er*ate\ (k[o^]n*s[i^]d"[~e]r*[asl]t), a.
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Given to consideration or to sober reflection; regardful of consequences or circumstances; circumspect; careful; esp. careful of the rights, claims, and feelings of others.
Of dauntless courage and considerate pride.
--Milton.[AE]neas is patient, considerate, and careful of his people.
--Dryden.The wisest and most considerate men in the world.
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Having respect to; regardful. [R.]
They may be . . . more considerate of praise.
--Dr. H. More.Syn: Thoughtful; reflective; careful; discreet; prudent; deliberate; serious. See Thoughtful. -- Con*sid"er*ate*ly, adv. -- Con*sid"er*ate*ness, n.
Wiktionary
adv. 1 Giving a considerate appearance. 2 Acting with consideration.
WordNet
adv. in a considerate manner; "they considerately withdrew" [syn: with consideration] [ant: inconsiderately]
Usage examples of "considerately".
But the exiles had for four years operated on the assumption that the Templars could eavesdrop on any conversation in or near the flyers they had so considerately placed at the disposal of those who were their unwilling guests.
On this day the restored exiles-men like Appius Claudius Pulcher, Metellus Pius, Varro Lucullus and Marcus Crassus-marched not as senators of Rome, but as restored exiles, though Sulla considerately spared them the indignity of having to don the Cap of Liberty, normally the headgear of freedmen.
Cook had most considerately prepared a cold luncheon, with a variety of aspics, jellies, and other smooth substances that slid down without discomfort.
But it isn't, is it,' Miss Barrace considerately added, 'as if you had ever had any doubt of that?
She, with no idea of benignness, might speak pardon's word to him, on a late autumn evening years hence, perhaps, or to his friends to-morrow, if he would considerately keep distant.
The other kind were passengers who, in addition to paying the first-class tariff, were known to someone in the Lufthansa administrative apparatus as passengers who were to be treated just a bit more considerately than the other first-class passengers.
Sir Leicester considerately interposes, "but perhaps this may be doing an injury to the young woman, which she has not merited.
The chaplain considerately made his service short, since so few of those attending could follow the formulary of a Russian Orthodox mass.
A piston of sewage rises up beneath him and propels him upwards, vomiting him out onto the top deck of the boat, where his comrades grab him and very considerately prevent him from rolling off into the ocean.