Synonyms for Wary:

• adj.

  •alert (adjective)
  • fast draw,
  • on ball,
  • fast the draw,
  • fast on draw,
  • on qui vive,
  • on job,
  • more jazzed,
  • jazzed,
  • most jazzed,
  • wide awake,
  • on one toes,
  • on ones toes,
  • quickest,
  • observant,
  • quick,
  • more intelligent.
  •all (adjective)
  • wary.
  •cagey (adjective)
  • shrewdest.
  •calculating (adjective)
  • manipulative.
  •canny (adjective)
  • quick witted,
  • most streetwise,
  • more nimble witted,
  • more nimblewitted,
  • more acute,
  • foxy,
  • Worldlywise,
  • nimble witted,
  • slick,
  • nimblewitted,
  • more streetwise,
  • most nimblewitted,
  • most nimble witted,
  • most nimble-witted,
  • street smart,
  • more nimble-witted,
  • quickwitted,
  • heppest.
  •careful (adjective)
  • more selfdisciplined,
  • going great lengths,
  • provident,
  • ex acting,
  • more precise,
  • most selfdisciplined,
  • self disciplined,
  • most thorough,
  • more careful,
  • more thorough,
  • ex-acting.
  •careful, cautious (adjective)
  • doubting,
  • heedful,
  • watching out,
  • considerate,
  • saving,
  • sly,
  • handling with kid gloves,
  • attentive,
  • distrustful,
  • watching one's step,
  • frugal,
  • thrifty,
  • keeping on one's toes,
  • thinking twice,
  • walking on eggs.
  •cautious (adjective)
  • taking it easy,
  • pussyfoot,
  • hedging one's bets,
  • aware,
  • with one's eyes peeled,
  • playing it cool,
  • forethoughtful,
  • taking it slow.
  •circumspect (adjective)
  • study at careful,
  • dis-criminating,
  • dis criminating.
  •cunning (adjective)
  • devious,
  • witty,
  • shrewd,
  • scheming,
  • crafty,
  • subtle,
  • smooth,
  • crazy like fox,
  • tricky,
  • masterly,
  • serpentine,
  • wily,
  • deft,
  • fancy footwork,
  • sharp,
  • artful,
  • sly boots,
  • designing,
  • snaky,
  • skillful,
  • feline,
  • astute,
  • ingenious,
  • clever,
  • slippery,
  • masterful.
  •defensive (adjective)
  • Sheltering,
  • protective,
  • secure,
  • armored,
  • buffering,
  • shielding,
  • defensive,
  • guarding,
  • countering.
  •deliberate (adjective)
  • aforethought,
  • Schemed,
  • witting,
  • purposive,
  • coldblooded,
  • with forethought,
  • cut and dried,
  • done on purpose,
  • Prepense,
  • prearranged,
  • Designful,
  • predesigned,
  • Predeterminate,
  • thought out.
  •delicate (adjective)
  • de tailed,
  • de-tailed,
  • tactical,
  • fore sighted,
  • fore-sighted.
  •disbelieving (adjective)
  • disbelieving,
  • skeptical,
  • unsure,
  • Distrusting,
  • uncertain,
  • cynical.
  •discreet (adjective)
  • Precautious,
  • not rash,
  • having foresight,
  • like a clam,
  • on lookout.
  •distrustful (adjective)
  • dis-trustful,
  • up tight,
  • dis trustful,
  • up-tight.
  •frugal (adjective)
  • penny wise,
  • tightwad,
  • un wasteful,
  • most unwasteful,
  • more penny-wise,
  • most pennywise,
  • more penny wise,
  • more tightwad,
  • pre serving,
  • more conserving,
  • penny pinching,
  • more unwasteful,
  • mingier,
  • most penny wise,
  • most scrimping,
  • un-wasteful,
  • most preserving,
  • mingiest,
  • more preserving,
  • pre-serving,
  • most penny-wise,
  • most niggardly,
  • more niggardly,
  • more pennywise,
  • most conserving,
  • more scrimping,
  • most tightwad,
  • meager.
  •guarded (adjective)
  • more overcareful,
  • over careful,
  • most overcautious,
  • more overcautious,
  • most overcareful,
  • over cautious,
  • over-cautious.
  •incautious (adjective)
  • in-discreet,
  • ill advised,
  • most fast-and-loose,
  • more fast and loose,
  • un guarded,
  • most unwatchful,
  • un-mindful,
  • un-watchful,
  • un-guarded,
  • devil may care,
  • sticking ones neck out,
  • injudicious,
  • most ill-judged,
  • more ill judged,
  • more ill-judged,
  • un watchful,
  • most unalert,
  • more unalert,
  • un-alert,
  • most unvigilant,
  • sticking one's neck out,
  • un vigilant,
  • sticking neck out,
  • sticking one neck out,
  • most foot in mouth,
  • more fast-and-loose,
  • in cautious,
  • illjudged,
  • most ill judged,
  • more unwatchful,
  • most illjudged,
  • in discreet,
  • ill judged,
  • in-judicious,
  • foot in mouth,
  • most foot-in-mouth,
  • un-vigilant,
  • most fast and loose,
  • more illjudged,
  • un alert,
  • more unvigilant,
  • un thinking,
  • un-thinking,
  • illadvised,
  • more foot-in-mouth,
  • more foot in mouth,
  • in-cautious,
  • in judicious.
  •incredulous (adjective)
  • unsatisfied,
  • SHOW-ME,
  • unconvinced.
  •judicious (adjective)
  • more clear-sighted,
  • most clearsighted,
  • welladvised,
  • well judged,
  • pro founder,
  • pro found,
  • pro-found,
  • more clearsighted,
  • well-judged,
  • clear sighted,
  • welljudged,
  • most well-judged,
  • more clear sighted,
  • most well judged,
  • pro-founder,
  • far-sighted,
  • judicial,
  • most clear sighted,
  • more welljudged,
  • more well-judged,
  • most clear-sighted,
  • far sighted,
  • more well judged,
  • most welljudged.
  •leery (adjective)
  • on ones guard,
  • un sure,
  • on one guard,
  • un-sure.
  •mindful (adjective)
  • know ins outs,
  • in know,
  • know all answers,
  • on to,
  • most observative,
  • know answers,
  • be upon,
  • plugged in,
  • more observative.
  •mistrustful (adjective)
  • mis trustful,
  • mis-trustful.
  •noncommittal (adjective)
  • on-the-fence,
  • even steven,
  • buttoned up,
  • even-steven,
  • Middle-ground,
  • clammed up,
  • non-committal,
  • unrevealing.
  •not careful (adjective)
  • incautious.
  •open-eyed (adjective)
  • openeyed.
  •Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • on the qui vive,
  • wideawake,
  • having fancy footwork,
  • on watch,
  • guarded,
  • well thought out,
  • cost-conscious,
  • uneager,
  • psyched up,
  • without belief,
  • wide open,
  • niggardly,
  • know the answers,
  • over-careful,
  • untrusting,
  • sparing,
  • reluctant,
  • shy,
  • co-operative,
  • pennywise,
  • cagey,
  • money-conscious,
  • mingy,
  • Hepper,
  • on the lookout,
  • on the watch,
  • overcautious,
  • noncommittal,
  • with eyes peeled,
  • clearsighted,
  • watchful,
  • know all the answers,
  • cautious,
  • in the know,
  • calculating,
  • selfdisciplined,
  • ill-judged,
  • not missing a trick,
  • incredulous,
  • playing with fire,
  • unvigilant,
  • Sophic,
  • suspicious,
  • penny-wise,
  • tight-fisted,
  • on one's toes,
  • wise,
  • circumspect,
  • going to great lengths,
  • unalert,
  • Observative,
  • overcareful,
  • alive to,
  • foot-in-mouth,
  • not born yesterday on the lookout,
  • safe,
  • see to,
  • uneffusive,
  • delicate,
  • pay no mind,
  • be up on,
  • well thought-out,
  • self-disciplined,
  • nimble-witted,
  • judgmatic,
  • unassertive,
  • wakeful,
  • glued,
  • good hands,
  • unwasteful,
  • worldly wise,
  • pennypinching,
  • cunning,
  • streetwise,
  • vigilant,
  • canny,
  • unsocial,
  • deliberate,
  • off guard,
  • without faith,
  • hep,
  • been hit before,
  • Ungiving,
  • in doubt,
  • discreet,
  • Stewardly,
  • judicious,
  • clear-sighted,
  • tuned in,
  • alert,
  • fast on the draw,
  • fast-and-loose,
  • leery,
  • be on,
  • caught napping,
  • heads up,
  • well advised,
  • mindful,
  • know ins and outs,
  • any old way,
  • all ears,
  • switched on,
  • chary,
  • unassured,
  • careful,
  • thoughtful,
  • unwatchful,
  • on the job.
  •prudent (adjective)
  • more judgmatic,
  • most judgmatic.
  •reluctant (adjective)
  • more disheartened,
  • dis-inclined,
  • most demurring,
  • in-disposed,
  • in voluntary,
  • more laggard,
  • un-eager,
  • most laggard,
  • most uneager,
  • more uneager,
  • in disposed,
  • more demurring,
  • in-voluntary,
  • laggard,
  • most grudging,
  • un eager,
  • dis inclined,
  • most disheartened,
  • dis-heartened,
  • dis heartened,
  • more grudging.
  •safe (adjective)
  • safest,
  • unadventurous,
  • SAFER,
  • on safe side.
  •shy (adjective)
  • more uneffusive,
  • un-assertive,
  • un-responsive,
  • most unsocial,
  • un social,
  • self effacing,
  • de-mure,
  • re tiring,
  • un assertive,
  • more unsocial,
  • de mure,
  • re-tiring,
  • introvert,
  • more unassertive,
  • un responsive,
  • un assured,
  • more unassured,
  • recessive,
  • most uneffusive,
  • un-social,
  • un-effusive,
  • most unassured,
  • selfeffacing,
  • un effusive,
  • un willing,
  • un-willing,
  • un-assured,
  • most introvert,
  • more introvert.
  •sparing (adjective)
  • more costconscious,
  • more tight fisted,
  • most stewardly,
  • un-giving,
  • more moneyconscious,
  • un giving,
  • most money conscious,
  • most cost conscious,
  • money conscious,
  • moneyconscious,
  • more money conscious,
  • cost conscious,
  • most tight-fisted,
  • more ungiving,
  • costconscious,
  • more money-conscious,
  • most costconscious,
  • most cost-conscious,
  • most ungiving,
  • most tight fisted,
  • tight fisted,
  • more cost-conscious,
  • more tight-fisted,
  • more stewardly,
  • most moneyconscious,
  • more cost conscious,
  • most money-conscious.
  •suspicious (adjective)
  • not born yesterday the lookout,
  • most suspecting,
  • not born yesterday lookout,
  • greeneyed,
  • un-believing,
  • not born yesterday on lookout,
  • more suspecting,
  • green eyed,
  • un believing.
  •thoughtful (adjective)
  • co operative,
  • un selfish,
  • well bred,
  • well thoughtout,
  • un-selfish,
  • wellbred.
  •unsleeping (adjective)
  • un sleeping,
  • un-sleeping.
  •untrusting (adjective)
  • un trusting,
  • un-trusting.
  •vigilant (adjective)
  • looking to,
  • with weather eye open,
  • watching,
  • looking for,
  • on alert.
  •wakeful (adjective)
  • insomniac,
  • Insomnious.
  •watchful (adjective)
  • most glued,
  • not missing trick,
  • pre-pared,
  • see after,
  • pre pared,
  • more glued.
  •wise (adjective)
  • well informed,
  • more sensing,
  • under standing,
  • wisest,
  • most sensing,
  • under-standing,
  • most sophic,
  • more sophic.

• adv

  •Other relevant words: (adverb)
  • on guard.

• n.

  •
  • frightened,
  • nervous,
  • upset,
  • uneasy,
  • troubled,
  • worried,
  • alarmed,
  • on edge,
  • tense,
  • anxious.
  •
  • awareness.
  •mistrustful (noun)
  • mistrustful.
  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • quality.
  •upon one's guard (noun)
  • upon one's guard.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • forehanded,
  • open-eyed,
  • gingerly.
  •
  • wide-awake.
  •Other relevant words:
  • prudent.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • dexterous,
  • lidless,
  • precautional,
  • Methodic,
  • unwilling,
  • reasonable,
  • disturbed,
  • follow,
  • commemorate,
  • apprehensively,
  • solicitous,
  • disquieted,
  • afraid,
  • hawk-eyed,
  • on your guard,
  • awake,
  • uncourageous,
  • unenthusiastic,
  • distrustfully,
  • inventive,
  • Trickish,
  • prudently,
  • charily,
  • sleepless,
  • discriminating,
  • ready,
  • resourceful,
  • reticent,
  • advisedly,
  • judiciously,
  • sage,
  • sensible,
  • concerned,
  • mode,
  • carefully,
  • vigilantly,
  • deliberately,
  • machiavellian,
  • Equivocating,
  • attentively,
  • conservative,
  • maintain,
  • deep-laid,
  • attend,
  • reserved,
  • dubious,
  • find,
  • doubtful,
  • watchfully,
  • funny,
  • dubiously,
  • scotch,
  • cute,
  • politic,
  • restless,
  • knowing,
  • disinclined,
  • agnostic,
  • anxiously,
  • questioning,
  • discreetly,
  • sagacious,
  • circumspectly,
  • cautiously,
  • comply,
  • fastidious,
  • shady,
  • safely,
  • Suspecting,
  • distressed,
  • antagonistic,
  • behold,
  • cowardly,
  • watch,
  • wisely,
  • shifty,
  • regardful,
  • fearful,
  • edgy,
  • insidious,
  • unbelieving,
  • beware,
  • thinking,
  • cagy,
  • doubtfully,
  • apprehensive,
  • sceptical,
  • securely,
  • craven,
  • tactful,
  • evasive,
  • slow,
  • scrupulously,
  • precautionary,
  • enlightened,
  • suspect,
  • evasively,
  • guileful,
  • mistrusting,
  • on the alert,
  • indisposed,
  • on toes,
  • shiftily,
  • dainty,
  • fulfill,
  • on the ball,
  • suspiciously,
  • feel,
  • loath,
  • modestly,
  • thorough,
  • opposed,
  • supple,
  • mindfully,
  • tricksy,
  • pawky,
  • conscientiously,
  • playing it safe,
  • unsleeping,
  • deep,
  • hesitant,
  • obey,
  • uncommunicative,
  • lynx-eyed,
  • temperately,
  • averse,
  • stealthy,
  • celebrate,
  • eagle-eyed,
  • assist,
  • vulpine,
  • cagily,
  • alertly,
  • reticently,
  • argus-eyed,
  • learned,
  • erudite,
  • cool,
  • caring,
  • warily,
  • Inconvincible,
  • fretful,
  • Subtile,
  • serve,
  • all eyes,
  • intently,
  • mistrustfully,
  • detect,
  • acute,
  • deceitful,
  • squeamish,
  • noncommittally,
  • keen-sighted,
  • consciously,
  • hesitating,
  • discover,
  • guardedly,
  • thoughtfully,
  • keep,
  • tentative,
  • loth,
  • sharp-eyed,
  • fishy,
  • mention,
  • prepared,
  • inspect,
  • discerning,
  • shy of,
  • sharp-sighted,
  • on one's guard,
  • see,
  • custodial,
  • calculatingly,
  • uneasily,
  • look,
  • ware,
  • timorous,
  • gimlet-eyed,
  • strategic,
  • aux aguets,
  • scrupulous,
  • observe,
  • discern,
  • close,
  • methodical,
  • arch,
  • restrained,
  • keen-eyed,
  • sneaky,
  • perturbed,
  • critical,
  • Prevaricating,
  • diplomatic,
  • sophistical,
  • timid,
  • unpersuadable,
  • obliquely.

Paraphrases for Wary:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    distrustful, careful, circumspect, cautious.
  • Proper noun, singular
    cautious.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    suspicious, mistrustful, sceptical, reluctant, aware, reticent, precautionary, anxious, afraid, attentive, hesitant, apprehensive, fearful, alert, timid, mindful, conservative, watchful, cautionary, restrained, skeptical.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    vigilant, worried, concerned, prudent, weary, worry.

Antonyms for Wary:

• adj.

  • all
    unwary.
  • careful, cautious
    inconsiderate, heedless, careless, certain, incautious, negligent, reckless, rash, inattentive, indiscreet, foolish.
  • Other antonyms:
    impetuous, dull, venturesome, drowsy, asleep, unplanned, injudicious, unmindful, oblivious, gullible, imprudent, thoughtless, unintentional, regardless, inadvertent, lax, trusting.

Homophones for Wary:

• wherry, wery, werry.