wary

wary is a 4-letter English word with 4 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Cautious of danger; carefully watching and guarding against deception, artifices, and dangers; timorously or suspiciously prudent; circumspect; scrupulous; careful. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 9 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Cautious of danger; carefully watching and guarding against deception, artifices, and dangers; timorously or suspiciously prudent; circumspect; scrupulous; careful.
2. adjective. Characterized by caution; guarded; careful.
3. adjective. marked by keen caution and watchful prudence

   "they were wary in their movements"

   "a wary glance at the black clouds"

4. adjective. openly distrustful and unwilling to confide

   Synonyms: leery, mistrustful, suspicious, untrusting

Synonyms

leery, mistrustful, suspicious, untrusting

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in wary:

awry, wray

Common word forms

waried, warier, warily, wariest

Words from these letters

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