wareless

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English

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Etymology

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From ware +‎ -less.

Adjective

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wareless (comparative more wareless, superlative most wareless)

  1. (obsolete) Unwary, incautious.
  2. (obsolete) Unaware of danger etc; unguarded.
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.ii:
      Both they vnwise, and warelesse of the euill, / That by themselues vnto themselues is wrought, / Through that false witch []