Wary

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. On guard; watchful: taught to be wary of strangers.
  • adj. Characterized by caution: a wary glance at the black clouds.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Cautious of danger; carefully watching and guarding against deception, artifices, and dangers; timorously or suspiciously prudent; circumspect; scrupulous; careful.
  • adj. Characterized by caution; guarded; careful.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Cautious of danger; carefully watching and guarding against deception, artifices, and dangers; timorously or suspiciously prudent; circumspect; scrupulous; careful.
  • adj. Characterized by caution; guarded; careful.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Cautious of danger; carefully watching and guarding against deception, artifices, and dangers; watchful; on the alert against surprise or danger; ever on one's guard.
  • Guarded; careful as to doing or not doing something; chary.
  • Characterized by caution; guarded.
  • Prudent; circumspect; wise.
  • Synonyms Careful, circumspect, etc. See list under cautious.
  • Same as warry.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. marked by keen caution and watchful prudence
  • adj. openly distrustful and unwilling to confide
    • Equivalent
    on guard    upon one's guard    on your guard    shy    on one's guard    distrustful   
    Cross Reference
    weary   
    Variant
    wariest    warier   
    Form
    wariness    warily    unwary   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    cautious    watchful    circumspect    scrupulous    careful    guarded    chary   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Arie    Azeri    Barrie    Barry    Berri    Berry    Bury    Canary    Carey    Carrie   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    cautious    watchful    suspicious    uneasy    attentive    anxious    apprehensive    alert    reluctant    shy   
     
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