warier
SayWAIR-ee-erUS/ˈwɛɚ.i.ɚ/UK/ˈwɛə.ɹi.ə/AUS/ˈweːɹiə/
- 1Comparative form of wary: more wary.
Investors have grown warier since the last crash and now ask harder questions.
She gave him a warier look than before, as if expecting another trick.
Note
The comparative turns the final y of wary into i before -er, the pattern of happier and busier. More wary means the same and is equally correct; warier is the shorter choice, and it keeps the preposition of wary: warier of strangers, warier of promises. Read it carefully, since it sits one letter away from wearier, which means more tired.
warier is a form of wary
wary, adjective: Alert to danger and on guard against deception or trickery; cautious in a suspicious way. Full entry
- Spelling
- wary → warier: change y to i, add -er
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