Wary

Wa′ry

,

Adj.

[

Com

par.

Warier

;

sup

erl.

Wariest

.]

[OE.

war

, AS.

wær

; akin to Icel.

v[GREEK]rr

, Dan. & Sw.

var

, Goth.

wars

, G. ge

wahr

aware, OHG.

wara

notice, attention, Gr. [GREEK] to see. Cf.

,

,

,

,

,

,

Verb.

T.

Ware

,

Adj.

,

Warren

.]

1.

Cautious of danger; carefully watching and guarding against deception, artifices, and dangers; timorously or suspiciously prudent; circumspect; scrupulous; careful.

“Bear a wary eye.”

Shak.

We should be

wary

, therefore, what persecution we raise against the living labors of public men.

Milton.

2.

Characterized by caution; guarded; careful.

It behoveth our words to be

wary

and few.

Hooker.

Syn. – Cautious; circumspect; watchful. See

Cautious

.

Wary

WARY

,

Adj.

[See Ware and Warn.] Cautious of danger; carefully watching and guarding against deception, artifices and dangers; scrupulous; timorously prudent. Old men are usually more wary than the young. It is incumbent on a general in war to be always wary.

wary

See also: warþ

English

Adjective

wary ‎(comparative warier, superlative wariest)

Cautious of danger; carefully watching and guarding against deception, artifices, and dangers; timorously or suspiciously prudent; circumspect; scrupulous; careful.
He is wary of dogs.
Characterized by caution; guarded; careful.

Synonyms

cautious, guarded, careful, chary

Derived terms

Translations

cautious of danger; timorously or suspiciously prudent; circumspect; scrupulous

Afrikaans:
Albanian:
Amharic:
Arabic:
Aragonese:
Armenian: զգույշ (hy) ‎(zguyš)
Assamese:
Asturian: prudente
Aymara:
Azeri:
Belarusian:
Bengali:
Breton:
Bulgarian:
Catalan: cautelós
Cherokee:
Chichewa:
Danish: varsom, forsigtig, på vagt
Dhivehi:
Dutch:
Esperanto:
Estonian:
Ewe:
Extremaduran:
Finnish: pelätä (fi) (verb: to be wary)
French: méfiant (fr)
Friulian:
Galician: cauteloso
Georgian:
German: achtsam (de), umsichtig (de), vorsichtig (de), wachsam (de)
Greek: επιφυλακτικός (el) ‎(epifylaktikós)
Gujarati:
Hausa:
Hawaiian: ʻeʻena, ʻāhē
Hebrew:
Hindi:
Hungarian: gyanakvó (hu), bizalmatlankodó, óvatos (hu)
Ido:
Igbo:
Indonesian:
Interlingua:
Interlingue:
Irish: airdeallach, braiteach, faichilleach
Italian: diffidente m
Japanese: 用心深い (ja) ‎(yōjin-bukai)
Javanese:

Kannada:
Khmer: ប្រុងប្រយត្ន័ ‎(prong prɑyat)

Korean:
Lao:
Latin:
Latvian: piesardzīgs m, piesardzīga f
Lithuanian:
Luganda:
Luxembourgish:
Macedonian:
Malay: hati-hati, waspada
Malayalam:
Maori: matakana, owhiti, korita, paoke, korita
Maori: matakana
Marathi: सावध ‎(Sāvadha)
Mirandese: couteloso
Occitan: cautelós
Portuguese: cauteloso (pt), cuidadoso (pt)
Russian: насторо́женный (ru) ‎(nastoróžennyj)
Sanskrit:
Sicilian:
Sindhi:
Sinhalese:
Slovak: dávať si pozor, mať sa na pozore
Slovene:
Somali:
Spanish: cauteloso (es)
Swedish: försiktig (sv), varsam (sv)
Tamil:
Telugu:
Thai:
Turkish: dikkat etmek (tr), sakınmak (tr)
Turkmen:
Ukrainian:
Urdu:
Uyghur:
Uzbek:
Venetian:
Vietnamese:
Volapük:
Walloon:
Wolof:
Xhosa:
Yiddish:
Yoruba:
Zulu:

characterized by caution; guarded; careful

Finnish: varovainen
German: vorsichtig (de)
Hungarian: óvatos (hu), elővigyázatos (hu), körültekintő (hu)

Maori: korita
Portuguese: cauteloso (pt), cuidadoso (pt)
Russian: осторо́жный (ru) ‎(ostoróžnyj)
Spanish: cauteloso (es)

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