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Etymology [ edit ] From the adjective ware -y
Pronunciation [ edit ] Adjective [ edit ] wary (comparative warier superlative wariest
Cautious of danger ; carefully watching and guarding against deception , artifices , and dangers; timorously or suspiciously prudent ; circumspect ; scrupulous ; careful .
He is wary of dogs.
Characterized by caution ; guarded ; careful .
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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 Azeri: please add this translation if you can Belarusian: please add this translation if you can 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 Danish: varsom forsigtig på vagt
Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can Dutch: please add this translation if you can 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
Georgian: please add this translation if you can 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 bizalmatlankodó
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
Japanese: 用心深い yōjin-bukai )
Javanese: please add this translation if you can
Kannada: please add this translation if you can Khmer: ប្រុងប្រយត្ន័ prong prɑyat )
Kinyarwanda: please add this translation if you can Kirundi: please add this translation if you can 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: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Luganda: please add this translation if you can Luxembourgish: please add this translation if you can Macedonian: please add this translation if you can Malay: hati-hati waspada
Malayalam: please add this translation if you can Marathi: please add this translation if you can Mirandese: couteloso
Occitan: cautelós
Portuguese: cauteloso (pt)
Russian: настороженный (ru) (nastoróžennyj )
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)
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: please add this translation if you can 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
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