Found 4 hits - Term: wary, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
wary \wa"ry\, a. compar. warier; superl. wariest. oe.
war, as. waer; 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.
1913 webster
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.
1913 webster
we should be wary, therefore, what persecution we
raise against the living labors of public men.
--milton.
1913 webster
2. characterized by caution; guarded; careful.
1913 webster
it behoveth our words to be wary and few. --hooker.
1913 webster
syn: cautious; circumspect; watchful. see cautious.
1913 webster
see also:
warier wariest aware garment garnish garrison
panorama ward ware warren cautious
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
1913 webster
see also:
worry warrie warry wary
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
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
also: wariest, warier
see also:
unwary leery mistrustful suspicious untrusting wariest
warier
- [4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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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http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2003/28/ma_445_01.html, score=44, date indexed=January 10, 2006, 5:17 pm After Haiti, Venezuela is wary of US interference | csmonitor.com
...After Haiti, Venezuela is wary of US interference. The US response in ... ..
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0308/p07s01-woam.html, score=44, date indexed=January 27, 2006, 10:51 am Why US getting a wary welcome | csmonitor.com
...Why US getting a wary welcome. As US forces fight in southern Iraq, ... ..
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