wary

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}]
    

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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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