Wary vs Tentative - What's the difference?
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Cautious of danger; carefully watching and guarding against deception, artifices, and dangers; timorously or suspiciously prudent; circumspect; scrupulous; careful.
Characterized by caution; guarded; careful.
Of or pertaining to a trial or trials; essaying; experimental.
Uncertain; subject to future change.
As adjectives the difference between wary and tentative
is that wary is cautious of danger; carefully watching and guarding against deception, artifices, and dangers; timorously or suspiciously prudent; circumspect; scrupulous; careful while tentative is of or pertaining to a trial or trials; essaying; experimental.As a noun tentative is
a trial; an experiment.wary
English
(Webster 1913)Adjective
(er)- He is wary of dogs.