All 11 Uses of
wary
in
The Return of the King
- Be wary still!†
Chpt 5.1wary = careful, nervous, or distrustful
- Indeed his only trouble was to be 'wary' according to the counsel of Gandalf, and not to let his tongue wag freely after the manner of a hobbit among friends.†
Chpt 5.1
- Remnants of an older time they be, living few and secretly, wild and wary as the beasts.†
Chpt 5.5
- He got up and soon was walking warily in pursuit of the last lantern before it disappeared among the trees.†
Chpt 5.5 *warily = in a nervous or distrustful manner
- The Wild Men had put out a screen of wary hunters, so that no orc or roving spy should learn of the movements in the hills.†
Chpt 5.5wary = careful, nervous, or distrustful
- The captains came; and then out of the trees crept warily other pukel-shapes so like old Ghan that Merry could hardly tell them apart.†
Chpt 5.5warily = in a nervous or distrustful manner
- First, be wary!†
Chpt 5.5wary = careful, nervous, or distrustful
- They are unwary and do not look about them.†
Chpt 5.5unwary = not careful about possible danger or deceptionstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unwary means not and reverses the meaning of wary. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- It was a wary creature, difficult to see, but Sam had little doubt about it: he longed to get his hands on its neck.†
Chpt 6.2wary = careful, nervous, or distrustful
- They went first to the little spring, and then climbing warily up they came to the road at the point where it swung east towards the Isenmouthe twenty miles away.†
Chpt 6.2warily = in a nervous or distrustful manner
- If he had looked back, he might have seen not far below Gollum turn again, and then with a wild light of madness glaring in his eyes come, swiftly but warily, creeping on behind, a slinking shadow among the stones.†
Chpt 6.3
Definition:
careful or nervous about something