hedging bets (adjective) cautious: careful, guarded
Sinonime: amendatory, antidotal, counteracting, curative, disciplinary, emendatory, palliative, penal,
punitive, reformatory, rehabilitative,
remedial, restorative,
therapeuticAntonime: careless,
hasty,
heedless,
imprudent, incautious,
rash,
thoughtless, uncareful, unguarded, unobservant