What is another word for cagey?
1131 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ kˈe͡ɪd͡ʒi], [ kˈeɪdʒi], [ k_ˈeɪ_dʒ_i]Table of Contents
Similar words for cagey:- alert (adjective)
- all (adjective)
- canny (adjective)
- cautious (adjective)
- chary (adjective)
- circumspect (adjective)
- clever (adjective)
- crafty (adjective)
- cunning (adjective)
- diplomatic (adjective)
- disbelieving (adjective)
- discreet (adjective)
- distrustful (adjective)
- elusive (adjective)
- evasive (adjective)
- guarded (adjective)
- mindful (adjective)
- mistrustful (adjective)
- on the ball (adjective)
- open-eyed (adjective)
- sagacious (adjective)
- secretive (adjective)
- serpentine (adjective)
- shifty (adjective)
- shrewd (adjective)
- slick (adjective)
- slippery (adjective)
- sly (adjective)
- street smart (adjective)
- suspicious (adjective)
- tricky (adjective)
- untrusting (adjective)
- wary (adjective)
- wily (adjective)
- cagey (noun)
- other synonyms
- adj.
- n.
- other relevant words
Synonyms for Cagey:
adj.
•alert (adjective)- jazzed,
- more careful,
- more jazzed,
- quickest,
- fast draw,
- wisest,
- most jazzed,
- more intelligent,
- fast the draw,
- on ones toes,
- wide awake,
- on job,
- on qui vive,
- on one toes,
- fast on draw,
- quick,
- observant.
- most nimble witted,
- most nimble-witted,
- more nimble witted,
- more nimblewitted,
- more nimble-witted,
- most nimblewitted,
- quickwitted,
- quick witted,
- heppest,
- more acute,
- more streetwise,
- foxy,
- Worldlywise,
- most streetwise,
- nimble witted,
- nimblewitted.
- with one's eyes peeled,
- forethoughtful,
- safest,
- watching one's step,
- taking it slow,
- hedging one's bets,
- walking on eggs,
- thinking twice,
- pussyfoot,
- SAFER,
- watching out,
- gingerly,
- provident,
- keeping on one's toes,
- playing it cool,
- taking it easy.
- manysided,
- more crackerjack,
- nobody's fool,
- dexterous-dextrous,
- most egghead,
- most knowledgeable,
- more egghead,
- most crackerjack,
- many sided,
- quick trigger,
- most capable,
- nobody fool,
- re sourceful,
- more talented,
- pro,
- re-sourceful,
- dexterous dextrous,
- more skilled,
- dexterousdextrous,
- nobodys fool,
- witty.
- more contriving,
- most opportunistic,
- most contriving,
- more opportunistic,
- more conniving,
- most conniving.
- in definable,
- in substantial,
- in-comprehensible,
- in comprehensible,
- most stonewalling,
- mis leading,
- most unspecific,
- mis-leading,
- most phantom,
- in-substantial,
- in-definable,
- more stonewalling,
- fugacious,
- more phantom,
- evanescent,
- more unspecific,
- more elusory,
- un specific,
- un-specific,
- difficult catch,
- in-tangible,
- most elusory,
- in tangible,
- most illusory.
- over-cautious,
- more overcareful,
- most overcareful,
- over cautious,
- most overcautious,
- over careful,
- more overcautious.
- know ins outs,
- be upon,
- more observative,
- most observative,
- plugged in,
- in know,
- know all answers,
- on to,
- know answers.
- in privacy,
- in the background,
- clammed up,
- unforthcoming,
- backstairs,
- in chambers,
- buttoned up,
- in private.
- maziest,
- Meandrous,
- most twisting,
- more twisting,
- twisting turning,
- most snakelike,
- most coiling,
- more coiling,
- mazier,
- more snakelike.
- more prevaricative,
- most unhonest,
- most dodging,
- most prevaricative,
- un principled,
- dis honest,
- more dodging,
- un-principled,
- Unhonest,
- un honest,
- un-truthful,
- more prevaricatory,
- dis-honest,
- mendacious,
- under hand,
- more unhonest,
- fly by night,
- most prevaricatory,
- under-hand,
- un-honest.
- most argute,
- pro founder,
- pro found,
- pro-found,
- in side,
- shrewdest,
- on inside,
- sharkest,
- pro-founder,
- more argute,
- wised up,
- Sharker.
- more smooth-spoken,
- more dextrous,
- most smooth spoken,
- most dextrous,
- most smooth-spoken,
- smoothspoken,
- smooth spoken,
- most smoothspoken,
- more smooth spoken,
- more smoothspoken.
- in-secure,
- un stabler,
- in-constant,
- un safe,
- un predictable,
- un safer,
- un steady,
- un-stabler,
- in-securer,
- twofaced,
- mutable,
- un safest,
- un steadiest,
- un-steadier,
- in securer,
- un-trustworthy,
- un-predictable,
- in secure,
- un stable,
- two faced,
- un-safer,
- un-stable,
- in-securest,
- un-safest,
- in securest,
- un-stablest,
- un stablest,
- un steadier,
- un-steadiest,
- un-safe.
- dis-honorable,
- impish,
- more plotting,
- more bluffing,
- most bluffing,
- un-scrupulous,
- un scrupulous,
- most plotting,
- dis honorable,
- doubledealing.
n.
•cagey (noun)Other synonyms:
•adj.- alert,
- be on,
- canny,
- cautious,
- chary,
- circumspect,
- clever,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- dextrous,
- diplomatic,
- disbelieving,
- discreet,
- elusive,
- evasive,
- guarded,
- hep,
- mazy,
- mindful,
- on the qui vive,
- opportunistic,
- overcareful,
- overcautious,
- sagacious,
- savvy,
- serpentine,
- shark,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth-spoken,
- snakelike,
- sneaking,
- streetwise,
- suspicious,
- tricky,
- unspecific,
- untrusting,
- up on,
- wary,
- wily,
- Double dealing,
- Elusory,
- Hepper,
- Observative,
- Witted,
- nimble-witted,
- wideawake,
- over-careful,
- on the lookout,
- alive to,
- psyched up,
- in the know,
- on the inside,
- in doubt,
- on the ball,
- all ears,
- be up on,
- been hit before,
- crazy like a fox,
- crazy like fox,
- difficult to catch,
- unwasteful,
- fast on the draw,
- good hands,
- handling with kid gloves,
- having fancy footwork,
- heads up,
- know all the answers,
- know ins and outs,
- know the answers,
- not born yesterday on the lookout,
- on one's toes,
- on the job,
- on toes,
- on top of,
- prevaricative,
- prevaricatory,
- quick on trigger,
- switched on,
- tuned in,
- twisting and turning,
- with eyes peeled,
- without belief,
- without faith,
- worldly wise,
- on the stick.
- abdomen,
- abide,
- abreast,
- abrupt,
- abstruse,
- accept,
- acceptance,
- ache,
- acuate,
- acute accent,
- acutely,
- add,
- adulterous,
- advertent,
- affection,
- affectionateness,
- agile,
- ague,
- ailing,
- alarm,
- alarum,
- alerting,
- alertness,
- alive,
- allow,
- alluring,
- ambidextrous,
- annoy,
- annoyance,
- antipathetic,
- antipathetical,
- anxious,
- apposite,
- apprehend,
- apprehension,
- arbitrarily,
- arc,
- arcanum,
- archway,
- argus-eyed,
- assumed,
- asymmetrical,
- at random,
- atomic number 102,
- attentive,
- attribute,
- au courant,
- au fait,
- averse,
- aviate,
- awake,
- aware,
- awkward,
- backstair,
- baffling,
- ball up,
- bass,
- be adrift,
- bear,
- belly,
- belongings,
- belowground,
- bestow,
- birth,
- black eye,
- blanch,
- bland,
- blast,
- bluster,
- boast,
- bobble,
- bollix,
- bollix up,
- bollocks,
- bollocks up,
- bosom,
- botch,
- botch up,
- botheration,
- brag,
- breadbasket,
- bribable,
- bright,
- bring in,
- brisk,
- broad,
- brook,
- bumble,
- bump,
- bungle,
- burn out,
- butt,
- buttery,
- calculative,
- caliber,
- calibre,
- capture,
- cart,
- catchy,
- cause,
- center,
- centre,
- chafe,
- chanceful,
- chancy,
- change course,
- changeable,
- character,
- cheating,
- check,
- chic,
- choice,
- cigaret,
- cigarette,
- circuitous,
- clear-eyed,
- climate,
- cloak-and-dagger,
- close,
- closed book,
- closed in,
- closelipped,
- closemouthed,
- coffin nail,
- coke,
- collateral,
- collusive,
- compass,
- comprehend,
- condescend,
- condescending,
- conquer,
- conservative,
- consume,
- contribute,
- convey,
- cook,
- core,
- corrupt,
- corruptible,
- craft,
- craftiness,
- creep,
- crisp,
- cryptic,
- cryptical,
- curve,
- deceit,
- deception,
- deeply,
- deft,
- deliberate,
- deliver,
- delusive,
- delusory,
- descend,
- design,
- deterrent,
- dexterous,
- dicey,
- diffident,
- dig,
- digest,
- dim,
- dimension,
- diplomatical,
- discerning,
- discernment,
- discommode,
- discriminating,
- disembodied spirit,
- dishonorable,
- disoblige,
- disposed,
- dissent,
- dissimulation,
- double-faced,
- double-tongued,
- doubtful,
- drag in,
- drag on,
- drag out,
- draw,
- dredge,
- drift,
- drop back,
- drop behind,
- drudge,
- dubitable,
- duplicitous,
- earmark,
- eloquent,
- embarrassing,
- embroil,
- emotional state,
- endure,
- enigma,
- enticing,
- envy,
- ephemeral,
- essence,
- every which way,
- experience,
- eye,
- facile,
- fag out,
- faint,
- faithlessly,
- fake,
- fallacious,
- fast,
- fastest,
- fatigue,
- faux,
- feature,
- feel,
- feeling,
- feigning,
- felid,
- fell,
- fellate,
- fetch,
- fictitious,
- fictive,
- fishy,
- fix,
- flavor,
- flavour,
- flee,
- float,
- flub,
- fluent,
- fluff,
- fluid,
- fly ball,
- fly front,
- fly sheet,
- flying,
- fondness,
- foolhardy,
- foxiness,
- fraudulent,
- fresh,
- fuck up,
- fulsome,
- fumble,
- funny,
- furtive,
- fuss,
- gas,
- gasconade,
- gear up,
- get,
- get at,
- get behind,
- get on,
- get the picture,
- get to,
- gist,
- give,
- give birth,
- given,
- glib,
- glossy,
- gluey,
- glutinous,
- go down on,
- goldbricking,
- goofing off,
- grasp,
- gravel,
- greasy,
- grievance,
- grind,
- guile,
- gummy,
- gust,
- gybe,
- hale,
- handicap,
- hang back,
- haphazardly,
- hassle,
- haul,
- have got,
- heart and soul,
- hesitancy,
- hesitation,
- hidden,
- hindrance,
- hip,
- hip to,
- hold,
- holding,
- hole-and-corner,
- humor,
- humour,
- hunched,
- hurt,
- hush-hush,
- ill at ease,
- imaginative,
- imitation,
- immediate,
- impart,
- impediment,
- impertinent,
- implike,
- impudent,
- in camera,
- in question,
- incisive,
- incommode,
- inconvenience,
- inconvenience oneself,
- indiscriminately,
- induce,
- infliction,
- ingest,
- inquiring,
- inquisitive,
- inscrutable,
- insomniac,
- inspirit,
- instead,
- institute,
- intense,
- intent,
- intentional,
- intoxicating,
- inwardness,
- irritate,
- jade,
- janus-faced,
- jesuit,
- jesuitic,
- jibe,
- judicious,
- keen,
- kernel,
- kind of,
- kinda,
- knavish,
- knifelike,
- knotty,
- knowledgeable,
- labor,
- labour,
- labyrinthian,
- labyrinthine,
- land,
- late,
- law-abiding,
- learned,
- legato,
- lend,
- let,
- lettered,
- liable,
- life,
- limber,
- lineament,
- liquid,
- lissom,
- lissome,
- lithe,
- lithesome,
- liveliness,
- lively,
- look,
- louse up,
- make,
- make for,
- marrow,
- measured,
- meat,
- melt off,
- merry,
- metro,
- mettle,
- middle,
- minded,
- mischievous,
- mishandle,
- mistaken,
- modality,
- mode,
- moderate,
- moil,
- mouse,
- mucilaginous,
- muck up,
- muggy,
- mystery,
- mystic,
- mystical,
- mystifying,
- nance,
- nark,
- neat,
- needlelike,
- nerve,
- nervous,
- nettle,
- niggardly,
- nimble,
- nitty-gritty,
- no more,
- nobelium,
- nub,
- objection,
- oblique case,
- observing,
- occult,
- oceanic abyss,
- off-key,
- oleaginous,
- on one's guard,
- on your guard,
- opportunist,
- orphic,
- outwear,
- overbold,
- own,
- pain,
- pain in the ass,
- pain in the neck,
- pale,
- pansy,
- passing,
- pasty,
- pat,
- patronising,
- patronizing,
- paying attention,
- peaked,
- penetrating,
- penetrative,
- pernicious,
- pertinent,
- piercing,
- pilot,
- pith,
- pixilated,
- place,
- placid,
- play,
- polish,
- poof,
- poorly,
- poove,
- possess,
- pouf,
- power,
- prankish,
- precious,
- precipitous,
- preferably,
- prepare,
- pretence,
- pretended,
- pretense,
- prime,
- private,
- privately,
- privy,
- prize,
- problematic,
- problematical,
- professional,
- prompt,
- promptly,
- prop,
- protestation,
- puckish,
- puff,
- pull,
- pump,
- punic,
- purchasable,
- purport,
- put out,
- queasy,
- queen,
- qui vive,
- quickly,
- quiet,
- quite,
- quizzical,
- rafter,
- rag,
- randomly,
- rash,
- rattling,
- receive,
- reckless,
- recondite,
- reduce,
- resent,
- reserve,
- resist,
- resistance,
- restless,
- retarding force,
- retiring,
- reversal,
- reverse,
- rich,
- rich person,
- rile,
- round-backed,
- round-shouldered,
- roundabout,
- sassy,
- satiny,
- saucy,
- sceptical,
- score,
- screw up,
- scrimy,
- scuff,
- sebaceous,
- secluded,
- seedy,
- seize,
- select,
- self-effacing,
- set,
- set up,
- setback,
- shadowed,
- shady,
- shaggy,
- sham,
- sharp-sightedness,
- sharp-worded,
- sharply,
- shifting,
- shine,
- shock,
- shoot a line,
- short-lived,
- shove along,
- shove off,
- shrill,
- shut,
- sickly,
- silken,
- silklike,
- silky,
- silver,
- silver-tongued,
- simulated,
- sinuous,
- skeptical,
- skulking,
- slacking,
- sleek,
- sleek down,
- sleepless,
- slender,
- slenderize,
- slick down,
- slick magazine,
- slickness,
- slight,
- slim down,
- slip,
- slipperiness,
- slippy,
- slyness,
- smarmy,
- smarting,
- smartness,
- smell,
- smooth out,
- smoothen,
- snappy,
- sneak,
- snow,
- soapy,
- soldiering,
- sooner,
- sort of,
- sour,
- spanking,
- speculative,
- speedy,
- spirit up,
- spoil,
- sprightliness,
- spry,
- spunk,
- squander,
- stand,
- steamy,
- stew,
- stick out,
- still,
- stimulate,
- stooped,
- stooping,
- straightaway,
- strategical,
- suave,
- substance,
- subway,
- suffer,
- sum,
- support,
- suspect,
- sustain,
- svelte,
- swash,
- sweep,
- sweep up,
- take,
- take flight,
- tangle,
- tart,
- temper,
- tempting,
- tenderness,
- tending,
- tent flap,
- tent-fly,
- thick,
- thin,
- thoughtful,
- thrifty,
- throw,
- ticker,
- tightlipped,
- timber,
- timbre,
- timeserving,
- timid,
- tire,
- tire out,
- toil,
- tolerate,
- toleration,
- tone,
- too-careful,
- tough,
- tout,
- trail,
- traitorously,
- tranquil,
- transient,
- transitory,
- travail,
- treacherously,
- treasonably,
- trench,
- trouble,
- trouble oneself,
- tube,
- tum,
- tummy,
- two-faced,
- umbrageous,
- unavowed,
- unbelieving,
- uncooperative,
- under the weather,
- underarm,
- undercover,
- underhanded,
- underhandedly,
- understanding,
- unemotional,
- unenviable,
- unopen,
- unquiet,
- unreliable,
- unruffled,
- unsure,
- unsympathetic,
- untalkative,
- untrue,
- unwell,
- upon one's guard,
- vague,
- vanish,
- vaporize,
- vaunt,
- venal,
- venter,
- vex,
- viscid,
- viscous,
- voguish,
- vulpecular,
- wakeful,
- warm,
- warmheartedness,
- warmness,
- warning signal,
- waste,
- wealthy person,
- wear,
- wear down,
- wear out,
- wear upon,
- weary,
- well-educated,
- well-read,
- wicked,
- wiliness,
- wing,
- wise to,
- wispy,
- wondering,
- work,
- working,
- worried,
- wraithlike,
- wreak,
- zippy,
- nose candy,
- rainfly,
- external oblique muscle,
- musculus obliquus externus abdominis,
- abdominal external oblique muscle,
- classified ad,
- classified advertisement,
- put on,
- put up,
- mess up,
- take in,
- blow out,
- foul up,
- with-it,
- fairy,
- muff,
- suck,
- queer,
- devil,
- faggot,
- fagot,
- subway system,
- set aside,
- double-dealing,
- hugger-mugger.
Antonyms for Cagey:
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adj.
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tricky
naive.
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Other antonyms:
enthusiastic, unpretending, happy, direct, unpretentious, incautious, decided, sure, open, honest, obvious, outspoken, straightforward, plainspoken, determined, keen, unworldly, childlike, forthright, Undesigning, public, real, trustful, simpleminded, unconcealed, ready, candid, frank, natural, certain, unforced, glad, artless, simple, sincere, unstudied, plain, unvarnished, trusting, patent, unaffected, unsophisticated, unquestioning, guileless, inclined, resolute, disposed, willing, innocent, aboveboard, impressionable, eager, ingenuous.
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tricky
Homophones for Cagey:
- kagey.