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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
Dictionary Results for gingerly:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
gingerly
    adv 1: in a gingerly manner; "gingerly I raised the edge of the
           blanket"
    adj 1: 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

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Gingerly \Gin"ger*ly\, adv. [Prov. E. ginger brittle, tender;
   cf. dial. Sw. gingla, g[aum]ngla, to go gently, totter, akin
   to E. gang.]
   Cautiously; timidly; fastidiously; daintily.
   [1913 Webster]

         What is't that you took up so gingerly ? --Shak.
   [1913 Webster]

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