guarded

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guarded

  1. simple past tense and past participle of guard

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guarded (comparative more guarded, superlative most guarded)

  1. Cautious; restrained.
  2. Watched over; supervised.
  3. (medicine, often euphemistic) When the practitioner formulating the opinion does not have enough information to know, or to foretell, what the outcome may be.
    guarded prognosis

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