chary

Betekenis (Engels)

Adj

1. Careful, cautious, shy, wary.
2. Excessively particular or fussy about details; fastidious.
3. Not disposed to give freely; not lavish; frugal, sparing.
4. (obsolete) Cared for, regarded as precious; cherished.

Adv

Synonym of charily: carefully, cautiously, warily.

Teenoorgestelde van

unchary, meticulous, carelessly, incautiously, uncarefully, uncautiously, unwarily

Sinonieme

wary

cautious

careful

circumspect

cagy

canny

cagey

fastidious

sparing

frugal

chary of

guarded

thrifty

gingerly

gingery

greedy

heedful

humble

longsighted

maidenly

mindful

miserly

niggardly

noncommittal

observing

offish

painstaking

parsimonious

particular

prudent

prudential

qualified

regardful

reserved

scrupulous

shy

sorrowful

spare

stingy

tactful

thoughtful

uncommunicative

undemonstrative

ungenerous

vigilant

visionary

wakeful

watchful

precautious

advertent

Vertalings

prudente

prudent

voorzichtig

vorsichtig

prevenido

esirgeyici

ihtiyatlı

baldar

cautelós

cauto

caut

cuidadoso

dikkatli

circonspect

tedbirli

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈtʃɛəɹi/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: chari

Geërf van Middle English: cearig

Geërf van Old English: ċeariġ

Verwante met Deens: karrig

Verwante met Nederlands: karig

Verwante met Noors: karrig

Verwante met Old High German: charag

Verwante met Duits: karg

Verwante met Old Saxon: carag

Verwante met Sweeds: karg

In summary

From Middle English chari, charre, charri, chary, Early Middle English cearig, chariȝ (“concerned with, diligent; sad, sorrowful; of a person: cherished, loved”), from Old English ċeariġ (“careful; pensive; chary, wary; anxious, sad, sorrowful; dire, grievous”), from Proto-West Germanic *karag (“anxious; sad”), from Proto-Germanic *karō + *-gaz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵeh₂r- (“exclamation; voice”) + *-kos (suffix forming adjectives with the meaning ‘pertaining to; typical of’)); analysable as care + -y.
The English word is cognate with Danish karrig (“miserly, stingy”), Dutch karig (“austere, scant, sparing”), Norwegian karrig (“barren; meagre; poor”), Old High German charag, karag (“sparing”) (modern German karg (“barren; meagre, poor”)), Old Saxon carag, karag, Swedish karg (“austere; barren; hungry; needy, poor”). See further at care.