wary

wary

See also: warþ

English

Etymology

From the adjective ware +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /wɛəɹ.i/
• Rhymes: -ɛəɹi

Adjective

wary (comparative warier, superlative wariest)

1. Cautious of danger; carefully watching and guarding against deception, trickery, and dangers; suspiciously prudent.

   Synonyms: circumspect, scrupulous, careful

   He is wary of dogs.

2. Characterized by caution; guarded; careful.

Synonyms

• cautious, guarded, careful, chary

Derived terms

• unwarily
• unwary
• warily
• wariness

Translations

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

Afrikaans: please add this translation if you can Albanian: please add this translation if you can Amharic: please add this translation if you can Arabic: please add this translation if you can Aragonese: please add this translation if you can Armenian: զգույշ (hy) (zguyš) Assamese: please add this translation if you can Asturian: prudente Aymara: please add this translation if you can Azerbaijani: please add this translation if you can Belarusian: асцяро́жны (ascjaróžny) (careful) Bengali: please add this translation if you can Breton: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can Catalan: cautelós Cherokee: please add this translation if you can Chichewa: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: 小心翼翼 (zh) (xiǎoxīn yìyì), 謹慎 (zh) (jǐnshèn) Danish: varsom, forsigtig, på vagt Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can Dutch: behoedzaam (nl) Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Estonian: please add this translation if you can Ewe: please add this translation if you can Extremaduran: please add this translation if you can Finnish: pelätä (fi) (verb: to be wary) French: méfiant (fr) Friulian: please add this translation if you can Galician: cauteloso, precavido Georgian: წინდახედული (c̣indaxeduli), ფრთხილი (prtxili) German: achtsam (de), umsichtig (de), vorsichtig (de), wachsam (de) Greek: επιφυλακτικός (el) (epifylaktikós) Gujarati: please add this translation if you can Hausa: please add this translation if you can Hawaiian: ʻeʻena, ʻāhē Hebrew: please add this translation if you can Hindi: please add this translation if you can Hungarian: gyanakvó (hu), bizalmatlankodó, óvatos (hu) Ido: please add this translation if you can Igbo: please add this translation if you can Indonesian: please add this translation if you can Interlingua: please add this translation if you can Interlingue: please add this translation if you can Irish: airdeallach, braiteach, faichilleach Italian: diffidente m, accorto (it), circospetto (it) Japanese: 用心深い (ja) (yōjin-bukai)

Javanese: please add this translation if you can Kannada: please add this translation if you can Khmer: ប្រុងប្រយត្ន័ (prong prɑyat) Korean: please add this translation if you can Lao: please add this translation if you can Latin: please add this translation if you can Latvian: piesardzīgs m, piesardzīga f Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Luganda: please add this translation if you can Luxembourgish: virsiichteg Macedonian: претпазлив (pretpazliv) Malay: hati-hati, waspada Malayalam: please add this translation if you can Maori: matakana, owhiti, korita, paoke, korita Marathi: सावध (Sāvadha) Mirandese: couteloso Occitan: cautelós Polish: czujny (pl), przezorny (pl), ostrożny (pl) Portuguese: cauteloso (pt), cuidadoso (pt), de pé atrás Russian: насторо́женный (ru) (nastoróžennyj), осторо́жный (ru) (ostoróžnyj) (careful), подозри́тельный (ru) (podozrítelʹnyj) (dustrustful,suspicious) Sanskrit: please add this translation if you can Sicilian: please add this translation if you can Sindhi: please add this translation if you can Sinhalese: please add this translation if you can Slovak: dávať si pozor, mať sa na pozore Slovene: please add this translation if you can Somali: please add this translation if you can Spanish: cauteloso (es) Swedish: försiktig (sv), varsam (sv) Tamil: please add this translation if you can Telugu: please add this translation if you can Thai: please add this translation if you can Turkish: dikkat etmek (tr), sakınmak (tr) Turkmen: please add this translation if you can Ukrainian: обере́жний (oberéžnyj) (careful) Urdu: please add this translation if you can Uyghur: please add this translation if you can Uzbek: please add this translation if you can Venetian: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can Volapük: please add this translation if you can Walloon: please add this translation if you can Wolof: please add this translation if you can Xhosa: please add this translation if you can Yiddish: please add this translation if you can Yoruba: please add this translation if you can Zulu: please add this translation if you can

characterized by caution; guarded; careful

Finnish: varovainen (fi) German: vorsichtig (de) Hungarian: óvatos (hu), elővigyázatos (hu), körültekintő (hu) Italian: cauto (it), vigile (it), accorto (it), circospetto (it), guardingo (it), cauteloso

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

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French: (please verify) circonspect (fr) Italian: (please verify) prudente (it) m, (please verify) sospettoso m

Old English: (please verify) ċeariġ

See also

• weary

Further reading

• wary in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Wray, awry, wray

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈva.rɨ/

Noun

wary m inan

1. inflection of war:
   1. nominative plural
   2. accusative plural
   3. vocative plural