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Wary vs Wery - What's the difference?

wary | wery |

As adjectives the difference between wary and wery

is that wary is cautious of danger; carefully watching and guarding against deception, artifices, and dangers; timorously or suspiciously prudent; circumspect; scrupulous; careful while wery is .

As an adverb wery is

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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

    * *

    See also

    * weary

    wery

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1837 , author= , title=The Pickwick Papers citation , page=176 , passage='Wery',' says my father. — ' You must have a bad mem'ry Mr. Weller,' says the gen'l'm'n, — 'Well, it is a ' wery bad 'un,' says my father.}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1837 , author=William Burton , title=Burton's comic songster citation , page=59 , passage=There was thomething about it tho wery pekooliar!}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1844 , author=Lawrence Ladree , title=Lyman Grubbs: An Autobiography of a Lamp-Post citation , page=25 , passage=It was jest sich a night as this— wery' cold — '''wery'''. ... It's a good while past sunset with me; and what makes it worse, it's '''wery''' cloudy — '''wery'''. ... I come and stood on this 'ere ' wery corner, and asked myself if I should take the watch back.}}

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1837 , author= , title=The Pickwick Papers citation , page=85 , passage='Not half so strange as a miraculous circumstance as happened to my own father, at an election time, in this wery place, Sir,' replied Sam.}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1897 , author=Walter Rye , title=The Pickwick Papers citation , page=144 , passage=... what a nice quiet place that is, Tungate, just the wery place I should like to get my tea at, so we puts ashore and lights a fire, and boils our kittle ...}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1903 , author=Charles Longman , title=Longman's magazine, Vol. 41 citation , page=232 , passage='Well, there now,' said Julia, 'that dew be a coincident, ter be sure! Here, mother, here be th' wery thing we wants.'}}