wary

Other forms of wary

comparative or superlative

warier

comparative or superlative

wariest

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about wary

What does wary mean?

wary means "marked by keen caution and watchful prudence". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in wary?

wary has 2 syllables: war-y. The stress falls on "war". In IPA it is /ˈwɛɹi/.

What is another word for wary?

Close synonyms include leery, mistrustful, suspicious, untrusting. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of wary?

The recorded antonyms are unwary.

Is wary a common word?

wary is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with wary?

5 words rhyme with wary. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.