wary meaning
EN
[wɛəɹ.i] [-ɛəɹi] - AdjectiveCOMwarierSUPwariestSUF-y
- 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.
- Cautious of danger; carefully watching and guarding against deception, artifices, and dangers; timorously or suspiciously prudent; circumspect; scrupulous; careful.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- For cruelty doth not embetter men, But them more wary make than they have been. ― Samuel Daniel.
- She still bore the scars of a very conflictive divorce, which made her wary of making any new commitment.
- Before the dore sat selfe-consuming Care, / Day and night keeping wary watch and ward, / For feare least Force or Fraud should vnaware / Breake in [ …]
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of wary in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Adjectives
- Morphemes
- Suffixes
- Words by suffix
- Words suffixed with -y
- Words suffixed with -y
- Words by suffix
- Suffixes
- Adjectives
- en waryson
- en waryfish
- en waryfishes
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "wary" is an adjective. It's also a morpheme, more specifically, a suffixe.