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Warier vs Warder - What's the difference?

warier | warder |

As an adjective warier

is comparative of wary.

As a noun warder is

a guard, especially in a prison.

warier

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (wary)

    • wary

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Cautious of danger; carefully watching and guarding against deception, artifices, and dangers; timorously or suspiciously prudent; circumspect; scrupulous; careful.
    • He is wary of dogs.
  • Characterized by caution; guarded; careful.

    • Synonyms

    * cautious, guarded, careful, chary

    Derived terms

    * unwary * warily * wariness

    Anagrams

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    See also

    * weary

    warder

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A guard, especially in a prison.
  • (archaic) A truncheon or staff carried by a king or commander, used to signal commands.
  • * 1595 , Samuel Daniel, Civil Wars
    • When, lo! the king suddenly changed his mind, / Casts down his warder to arrest them there.
  • * William Shakespeare, King Richard II, Act 1, Scene 3
    • Stay, the king hath thrown his warder down.

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