What does chary mean?
Chary means Careful, cautious, shy, wary..
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/ˈt͡ʃɛəɹi/ · adjective
Careful, cautious, shy, wary..
The Charieſt maide is prodigall enough, / If ſhe vnmaske hir beautie to the Moone.
[E]ls is he chary and wary to lay himſelfe open to any daunger, if the finall end of his endeauour and toile bee not plauſible in his demurring judgement.
[Y]our Women of Honour, as you call 'em, are only chary of their reputations, not their Perſons, and 'tis ſcandal they wou'd avoid, not Men: [...]
However, the moſt Solid and Apprehenſive ſort of Men cannot be perſwaded, that thoſe two Monarchs [Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor and Charles II of Spain], being more Chary of their Honour and their Reputation, then the Duke of Savoy [Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia], who ſo ignominouſly abandon'd the Confederates, Innocent XII. will not find that Eaſineſs in them to be wrought upon, which he met with in the King of Cyprus; [...]
Of ſpotleſs fame, be chary as your lives! / Keep wide of proof, and you're the beſt of wives!
I should have been chary of discussing my guardian too freely with her; but I should have gone on with the subject so far as to describe the dinner in Gerrard-street, if we had not then come into a sudden glare of gas.
They [Roman Catholics] had learned to hate government, and glory in the violation of law; they had become suspicious of everyone, even of their friends; they had contracted a habit of equivocation, and were chary of telling the truth; their manliness of character was to some extent undermined, and they had learned the attitude and the language of slaves.
The latter of these conceptions of law is the one that prevails in current science such as avoids metaphysical insinuation, and, chary as to a priori principles and methods, proceeds empirically and inductively.
Use chary when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Chary means Careful, cautious, shy, wary..
Common synonyms include alert, attentive, careful, cautelous.
Possible antonyms include unchary, careless, cursory, derelict.
The Charieſt maide is prodigall enough, / If ſhe vnmaske hir beautie to the Moone.
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