Usually means: Cautious and alert to danger.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word wary:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. wary: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. wary: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. wary: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. wary: Collins English Dictionary
  5. wary: Vocabulary.com
  6. Wary, wary: Wordnik
  7. wary: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. wary: Wiktionary
  9. wary: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. wary: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. wary: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. wary: Dictionary.com
  13. wary: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. wary: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. WARY: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Wary: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. wary: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. wary: Rhymezone
  19. wary: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. wary: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. wary: Free Dictionary
  22. wary: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. wary: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wary: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wary: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See warier as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Cautious of danger; carefully watching and guarding against deception, trickery, and dangers; suspiciously prudent
adjective:  Characterized by caution; guarded; careful; on one's guard
adjective:  thrifty, provident

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