Download the app
educalingo
Search
Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.
Loren Eiseley

Meaning of "warily" in the English dictionary

Dictionary
DICTIONARY
section

PRONUNCIATION OF WARILY

warily  [ˈwɛərɪlɪ] play
facebooktwitterpinterestwhatsapp

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WARILY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Warily is an adverb.
The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WHAT DOES WARILY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of warily in the English dictionary

The definition of warily in the dictionary is cautiously.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH WARILY


aerily
ˈɛərɪlɪ
airily
ˈɛərɪlɪ
arbitrarily
ˌɑːbɪˈtreərɪlɪ
auditorily
ˈɔːdɪtərɪlɪ
charily
ˈtʃɛərɪlɪ
cheerily
ˈtʃɪərɪlɪ
contrarily
kənˈtrɛərɪlɪ
culinarily
ˌkʌlɪˈnɛərɪlɪ
eerily
ˈɪərɪlɪ
evolutionarily
ˌiːvəˈluːʃənərɪlɪ
fairily
ˈfɛərɪlɪ
legendarily
ˈlɛdʒəndərɪlɪ
mandatorily
ˈmændətərɪlɪ
necessarily
ˈnɛsɪsərɪlɪ
scarily
ˈskɛərɪlɪ
secondarily
ˈsekəndərɪlɪ
summarily
ˈsʌmərɪlɪ
unwarily
ʌnˈwɛərɪlɪ
voluntarily
ˈvɒləntərɪlɪ
wearily
ˈwɪərɪlɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WARILY

warfare
warfarer
warfarin
warhable
warhead
Warhol
warhorse
waribashi
warier
wariest
wariment
wariness
warison
wark
Warks
warless
Warley
warlike
warlikeness
warling

WORDS THAT END LIKE WARILY

blearily
complementarily
contemporarily
customarily
drearily
exemplarily
extraordinarily
involuntarily
literarily
militarily
momentarily
monetarily
ordinarily
pecuniarily
preliminarily
primarily
satisfactorily
stationarily
temporarily
unitarily
unnecessarily

Synonyms and antonyms of warily in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «WARILY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «warily» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of warily

Translation of «warily» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR
online translator

TRANSLATION OF WARILY

Find out the translation of warily to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of warily from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «warily» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

警惕
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cautela
570 millions of speakers

English

warily
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

एहतियात
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بحذر
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

осторожно
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

cautelosamente
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সতর্কভাবে
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

prudemment
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Dengan teliti
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

vorsichtig
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

用心して
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

조심
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Warily
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thận trọng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

எச்சரிக்கையுடன்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सावधपणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

temkinlice
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

circospezione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ostrożnie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

обережно
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

precaut
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ετοιμοπόλεμοι
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

versigtig
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

varsamt
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

varsomt
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of warily

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WARILY»

The term «warily» is regularly used and occupies the 90.004 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
0
100%
FREQUENCY
Regularly used
58
/100
The map shown above gives the frequency of use of the term «warily» in the different countries.
Principal search tendencies and common uses of warily
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «warily».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WARILY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «warily» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «warily» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about warily

EXAMPLES

QUOTES WITH «WARILY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word warily.
1
Loren Eiseley
Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WARILY»

Discover the use of warily in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to warily and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
A Dictionary Of The English Language: In Which The Words are ...
[from weren] Warily; cautiously; timorously. They bound him hand and svoot with iron chains, And with continual watch did warely keep. Fairy Queen. WA'RFARE. ' 1. [war and firm] Military service; military life. . In the wilderness He shall first lay ...
Samuel Johnson, 1756
2
The North American Indian. Volume 8 - The Nez Perces. ...
OwiySlaihyowiyai. *Wah *imSttShinnS *uwaihSni/hnim *hiwaiaktn, *annu. * WihinS, ySyS! wah *holah-holSh. AiyaiyS! OwiySlaihyowiyai. Aiyaiya! OwiySlaihyowiyai. AiyaiyS! Travelling warily, Travelling warily, travelling warily, travelling warily.
Curtis, Edward S.
3
The new encyclopædia; or, Universal dictionary ofarts and ...
WARILY, adv. [from wary.] Cautiously! with timorous prudence ; with wile forethought. — And warily awaited day and night. Spenser.—- The change of laws must be warily proceeded in. Hooter.— So rich a prize could not so warily be fenced.
Encyclopaedia Perthensis, 1807
4
Current Population Reports: Population characteristics
FOR MEANING OF SYMBOLS, SEE TEXT) juteo states VWER.-CONTINUED ' EULE.-CONTINUEO 21 to 29 years old . . "o.'seholjer, spouse present :t«e« family householder . warily householder. . . i of householder HJ. 30 TO 34 YEARS OLD .
‎1986
5
The two new years' days; and other narratives and sketches
"When the day is bright, walk thou warily : In the dusky night, step on cheerily. Dazzled by the sunny ray, Thou may'st stumble, faint, or stray ; Walk then warily. When benighted and forlorn, Every moment nears the morn : Go on cheerily.
George Etell Sargent, 1865
6
The Image Taker: The Selected Stories and Photographs of ...
Traveling warily, wearily. Traveling warily, traveling warily, traveling warily. Wearily, I discover it is I the wolves seize and hurt. Going, gone—my flesh. Aiyaiya! Traveling warily, wearily, I go. Translation: “Before starting out on his journey toward ...
Edward S. Curtis, Gerald Hausman, Robert W. Kapoun, 2009
7
Final Mask
Warily. Time has come for me To be pleased with unReflected Sapien mist Alone I watch my sound Going public, veering through Disappearing mist, ricochet Then plunge now unintelligible Even to my moving ears. I look warily over my left ...
Russell Buker, 2012
8
Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)
WALK warily, walk warily, be carefulwhat you say: because now the Sunderers are hoveringround, the Dividers are close upon us, dogging our every breath and watching our every step. and beating their great wingsin ourpanting faces.
D.H. Lawrence, 2013
9
Creating Complicated Lives: Women and Science at ...
1941, ibid. Originally Scarth, as head of Botany, opposed her request for a demonstrator because he wanted one for his own classes. Letter, F.C. ]ames to D.L. Thomson, 24 Sept. 1941, Botany files, McGUA. Gillett, We Walked Very Warily, 196.
Marianne Gosztonyi Ainley, Marelene F. Rayner-Canham, Geoff Rayner-Canham, 2012
10
Beauties of the Scottish poets, or Harp of Renfrewshire, a ...
cci WARILY, STEADILY. The storm sweeps wildly through the sky, And loud the angry waters roar, Our bark hath liv'd in tempest high, But such as this ne'er brav' d before ; Then warily, steadily, helmsman, steer, And we yet the headland cape  ...
Renfrew county, William Motherwell, 1821

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WARILY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term warily is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Finding on Whether Debris Is From Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 May …
Still, government officials and families of passengers lost on the flight, which vanished in March 2014 with 239 people aboard, responded more warily on ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
2
Bulgaria eyes Greek crisis warily
Bulgaria has been watching the crisis in neighbouring Greece - where capital controls have been in place since Monday - through wary eyes, with its PM noting ... «EUobserver, Jun 15»
3
Long Taught to Use Force, Police Warily Learn to De-escalate
SEATTLE — Officer Corey Papinsky was recently showing a group of Seattle police officers how to reduce the chance of using force against a citizen during a ... «New York Times, Jun 15»
4
Waterlogged Texas warily awaits Tropical Storm Bill
During the depths of the 2011 drought, as hundreds of millions of trees died, lawns wilted and temperatures crested 100 degrees day after day, the city of ... «Chron.com, Jun 15»
5
Rise of Netflix met warily at Cannes Film Festival
CANNES, France (AP) — In Netflix's first official visit to the Cannes Film Festival, the streaming service's ambitions have been met warily at the Cote d'Azure ... «Yahoo News UK, May 15»
6
Publishers Warily Embed With Facebook
In the early hours of May 1, editors at several popular websites, including Gawker, Vice and Mashable, noticed that story links they had posted to Facebook FB ... «Wall Street Journal, May 15»
7
Texas' top three leaders circle one another warily
Relations have grown touchy among the governor, lieutenant governor and House speaker, as a blow-up at their weekly breakfast on Wednesday demonstrated ... «Dallas Morning News, Apr 15»
8
Research advocates watch, warily, as Congress tries to finish its …
David is a Deputy News Editor specializing in coverage of science policy, energy and the environment. Email David. By. David Malakoff. 13 April 2015 7:45 am. «Science /AAAS, Apr 15»
9
For Drinking Water in Drought, California Looks Warily to Sea
CARLSBAD, Calif. — Every time drought strikes California, the people of this state cannot help noticing the substantial reservoir of untapped water lapping at ... «New York Times, Apr 15»
10
Germany Warily Assumes Greater Global Role
Germany, Europe's economic behemoth, has never been as prosperous, secure and free as it is today. It is the world's fourth largest economy and one of the ... «Voice of America, Mar 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Warily [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/warily>. May 2024 ».
Download the educalingo app
en
English dictionary
Discover all that is hidden in the words on
index
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z