Wary

Adjective

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

Synonyms

 * cautious, guarded, careful, chary

Derived terms

 * unwary
 * warily
 * wariness

Adverbs for Wary
habitually; constantly; necessarily; alertly; uncommonly; significantly; extraordinarily; noticeably; nervously; wisely; ordinarily; curiously; tiresomely; conspicuously; timidly; sagaciously; deliberately; anxiously; admirably.

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
From the adjective

Translations

 * French: méfiant
 * German: achtsam, umsichtig, vorsichtig, wachsam
 * Hungarian:, bizalmatlankodó
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 用心深い
 * Russian: настороженный
 * Turkish: dikkat etmek, sakınmak


 * German:
 * Hungarian:, elővigyázatos, körültekintő


 * Russian:


 * : circonspect
 * : prudente, sospettoso
 * : ċeariġ


 * : prudente, cauteloso(a), cuidadoso(a)
 * : cauteloso

Anagrams

 * awry
 * wray