Wary vs Worrying - What's the difference?
wary | worrying |
Cautious of danger; carefully watching and guarding against deception, artifices, and dangers; timorously or suspiciously prudent; circumspect; scrupulous; careful.
Characterized by caution; guarded; careful.
Inducing worry.
* {{quote-news
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The act of worrying or harassing somebody.
* Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son
As adjectives the difference between wary and worrying
is that wary is cautious of danger; carefully watching and guarding against deception, artifices, and dangers; timorously or suspiciously prudent; circumspect; scrupulous; careful while worrying is inducing worry.As a verb worrying is
.As a noun worrying is
the act of worrying or harassing somebody.wary
English
(Webster 1913)Adjective
(er)- He is wary of dogs.
Synonyms
* cautious, guarded, careful, charyDerived terms
* unwary * warily * warinessAnagrams
* *See also
* wearyworrying
English
(wikipedia worrying)Adjective
(en adjective)citation, page= , passage=Moldova did give England's under-employed keeper Joe Hart a worrying moment when Igor Armas sent a free header wide but otherwise it was an easy night.}}
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- There is a snaky gleam in her hard grey eye, as of anticipated rounds of buttered toast, relays of hot chops, worryings and quellings of young children, sharp snappings at poor Berry, and all the other delights of her Ogress's castle.