| careful | (adjective) exercising caution or showing care or attention | - |
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| (adjective) cautiously attentive | Synonyms: heedful |
| (adjective) mindful of the future in spending money | Synonyms: thrifty |
| (adjective) full of cares or anxiety | - |
| (adjective) unhurried and with care and dignity | Synonyms: deliberate, measured |
| carefully | (adverb) taking care or paying attention | - |
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| (adverb) as if with kid gloves; with caution or prudence or tact | Synonyms: cautiously, with kid gloves |
| carefulness | (noun) the quality of being careful and painstaking | - |
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| (noun) the trait of being cautious; being attentive to possible danger | Synonyms: caution, cautiousness |
| direful | (adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: awful, dire, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible |
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| direfully | (adverb) in a direful manner | - |
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| ireful | (adjective) feeling or showing extreme anger | Synonyms: irate |
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| irrefutable | (adjective) impossible to deny or disprove | Synonyms: incontrovertible, positive |
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| overcareful | (adjective) excessively or unduly careful | Synonyms: too-careful |
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| refuel | (verb) take on more fuel, as of a plane, ship, or car | - |
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| (verb) provide with additional fuel, as of aircraft, ships, and cars | - |
| refueling | (noun) the activity of supplying or taking on fuel | Synonyms: fueling, fuelling |
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| refuge | (noun) act of turning to for assistance | Synonyms: recourse, resort |
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| (noun) a shelter from danger or hardship | Synonyms: asylum, sanctuary |
| (noun) something or someone turned to for assistance or security | Synonyms: recourse, resort |
| (noun) a safe place | Synonyms: safety |
| refugee | (noun) an exile who flees for safety | - |
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| refulgence | (noun) the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light | Synonyms: effulgence, radiance, radiancy, refulgency, shine |
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| refulgency | (noun) the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light | Synonyms: effulgence, radiance, radiancy, refulgence, shine |
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| refulgent | (adjective) radiating or as if radiating light | Synonyms: beaming, beamy, effulgent, radiant |
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| refund | (noun) the act of returning money received previously | Synonyms: repayment |
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| (noun) money returned to a payer | - |
| (verb) pay back | Synonyms: give back, repay, return |
| refurbish | (verb) make brighter and prettier | Synonyms: freshen up, renovate |
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| refurbishment | (noun) the state of being restored to its former good condition | Synonyms: renovation, restoration |
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| refurnish | (verb) furnish with new or different furniture | - |
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| refusal | (noun) a message refusing to accept something that is offered | - |
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| (noun) the act of refusing | - |
| refuse | (noun) food that is discarded (as from a kitchen) | Synonyms: food waste, garbage, scraps |
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| (verb) show unwillingness towards | Synonyms: decline |
| (verb) not accept as true | Synonyms: decline, pass up, reject, turn down |
| (verb) refuse to let have | Synonyms: deny |
| (verb) refuse entrance or membership | Synonyms: reject, turn away, turn down |
| (verb) elude, especially in a baffling way | Synonyms: defy, resist |
| (verb) resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ | Synonyms: reject, resist |
| refutable | (adjective) able to be refuted | Synonyms: confutable, confutative, questionable |
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| refutal | (noun) the act of determining that something is false | Synonyms: disproof, falsification, falsifying, refutation |
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| refutation | (noun) the act of determining that something is false | Synonyms: disproof, falsification, falsifying, refutal |
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| (noun) any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something | Synonyms: disproof, falsification |
| (noun) the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions | Synonyms: defence, defense |
| refute | (verb) prove to be false or incorrect | Synonyms: controvert, rebut |
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| (verb) overthrow by argument, evidence, or proof | Synonyms: rebut |
| refuter | (noun) a debater who refutes or disproves by offering contrary evidence or argument | Synonyms: confuter, disprover, rebutter |
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