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Wary \Wa"ry\, a. [Compar. Warier; superl. Wariest.] [OE.
war, AS. w[ae]r; akin to Icel. v?rr, Dan. & Sw. var, Goth.
wars, G. gewahr aware, OHG. wara notice, attention, Gr. ? to
see. Cf. Aware, Garment, Garnish, Garrison,
Panorama, Ward, v. t. Ware, a., Warren.]
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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.
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We should be wary, therefore, what persecution we
raise against the living labors of public men.
--Milton.
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2. Characterized by caution; guarded; careful.
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It behoveth our words to be wary and few. --Hooker.
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Syn: Cautious; circumspect; watchful. See Cautious.
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Warye \War"ye\, v. t. [AS. wergian, wyrgean. Cf. Worry.]
To curse; to curse; to execrate; to condemn; also, to vex.
[Obs.] [Spelled also warrie, warry, and wary.] "Whom I
thus blame and warye." --Chaucer.
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wary
adj 1: marked by keen caution and watchful prudence; "they were
wary in their movements"; "a wary glance at the black
clouds"; "taught to be wary of strangers" [ant: unwary]

2: openly distrustful and unwilling to confide [syn: leery,
mistrustful, suspicious, untrusting, wary]
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wary [wɛəriː]
vorsichtig

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wary

vorsichtig; wachsam; argwöhnisch adj
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118 Moby Thesaurus words for "wary":
Argus-eyed, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, Pyrrhonic, Scotch, acute,
agnostic, all ears, all eyes, arch, artful, astute, aux aguets,
cagey, calculating, canny, careful, cautious, chary, circumspect,
clever, considerate, crafty, cunning, custodial, cute, deceitful,
deep, deep-laid, designing, diplomatic, discreet,
disinclined to believe, disposed to doubt, distrustful, doubtful,
doubting, dubious, eagle-eyed, feline, foxy, from Missouri, frugal,
gingerly, guarded, guileful, hard of belief, hawk-eyed,
impervious to persuasion, in doubt, inconvincible, incredulous,
ingenious, insidious, inventive, keen-eyed, knowing, leery,
lidless, mistrustful, mistrusting, observant, on guard,
on the lookout, on the watch, open-eyed, pawky, politic, provident,
prudent, questioning, ready, resourceful, safe, saving, scheming,
scrupulous, serpentine, sharp, sharp-eyed, shifty, shrewd, shy,
shy of belief, skeptical, sleepless, slick, slippery, sly, smooth,
snaky, sneaky, sophistical, stealthy, strategic, subtile, subtle,
supple, suspecting, suspicious, tactical, thrifty, trickish,
tricksy, tricky, uncertain, unconvincible, uncredulous,
unpersuadable, unpersuasible, untrusting, unwasteful,
unwilling to accept, vigilant, vulpine, watchful, wily,
with open eyes



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