Guarded

Definition: Guarded

Guarded

Adjective

1. Very reluctant to give out information.

2. Prudent; "guarded optimism".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "guarded" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Guarded

Care

Guarded, on one's guard; on the qui vivre, on the alert, on watch, on the lookout; awake, broad awake, vigilant; watchful, wakeful, wistful; Argus-eyed; wide awake; (intelligent); on the watch for (expectant).

Caution

Adjective: cautious, wary, guarded; on one's guard; (watchful); cavendo tutus; in medio tutissimus; vigilant.

Conditions

Adjective: conditional, provisional, guarded, fenced, hedged in.

Crosswords: Guarded

Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns (A Few Good Men; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin. Based on the play by Aaron Sorkin.)

Its black gates are guarded by more than just orcs (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

Follow. But! Follow only if ye be men of valour, for the entrance to this cave is guarded by a creature so foul, so cruel that no man yet has fought with it and lived (Monty Python and the Holy Grail; writing credit: Graham Chapman; John Cleese)

She was locked in the highest room in the tallest tower, and was guarded by a terrible fire-breathing dragon (Shrek; writing credit: Ted Elliott)

There is but one working castle gate, and and it is guarded by 60 men. (The Princess Bride; writing credit: William Goldman)

Safe Guarded (1924)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Agent-Oriented Programming: From Prolog to Guarded Definite Clauses (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1630) (reference)

• Closely Guarded Secrets:: The Assasination of F.D.R., Japan's Atomic Bomb, the Massacre at Port Chicago (reference)

• Guarded Hot Plate and Heat Flow Meter Methodology: A Symposium (Astm Special Technical Publication 879) (reference)

• Oldest Allies, Guarded Friends: The United States and France Since 1940 (reference)

• The Guarded Heart (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Closely Guarded Secrets-A&E Top 10 (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• We Are Guarded By the Cross [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

At dockside, circa 1903-08. Note prisoner working party at left, guarded by Marines and moving a handcart full of debris. Credit: NAVY.

New York City - How Uncle Sam's money is guarded in the Sub-Treasury Building. Credit: Library of Congress.

Production. Airplane engines. An airplane engine under special test in a secluded and carefully guarded woodland area near a Midwest engine plant. If the engine meets the exacting requirement imposed by the test engineers, it will yield valuable technical. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

To ask how you may be guarded from harm, or injury, on that side where the strongest hand is to do it, is presently the voice of faction and rebellion: as if when men quitting the state of nature entered into society, they agreed that all of them but one, should be under the restraint of laws, but that he should still retain all the liberty of the state of nature, increased with power, and made licentious by impunity. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

One is so fenced and guarded from the weather, that not a breath of air can find its way unpermitted

Lofty walls guarded from all the distractions of real life the mystic Sultana, who had the Crucified for Sultan

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Health

A century of pessimism about the capacity for regeneration in the brain and spinal cord is now giving way to guarded optimism. (references)

At the same time, the risk of misdiagnosis leading to costly medical investigations and delays in treatment for panic disorder must also be guarded against. (references)

Business

Taiwan's detailed plans for upgrades and new system procurements are closely guarded secrets, but some information is generally available through existing publications, including the bi-annual defense report issued by the Ministry of National Defense. (references)

Civil Liberties

Guinea

However, there were some reports that refugees were forced to pay bribes to leave refugee camps guarded by the armed forces and then were forced to pay bribes to get past many of the checkpoints. (references)

Economic History

Philippines

For example, spectrum allocation and licensing in the telecommunications sector are often well guarded by incumbent firms, despite regulations that require transparent distribution of these rights. (references)

Human Rights

Burma

The prisoners were tied together in groups of five and guarded by 40 soldiers. (references)

Political Economy

Burma

In January 2001, the existence of the talks was made public but the substance of the discussions remains closely guarded by both sides. (references)

Trade

Ukraine

Customs clearance can be a lengthy process, so it is better that goods are secured and guarded until closer to their final destination point. (references)

Women

Brunei

In 1999 a photograph of a man accused of stabbing his wife and assaulting one of his children was published in a daily newspaper, a new development in a country in which privacy generally is guarded closely. (references)

Worker Rights

Philippines

They consider it unpromising in view of both the organizers' restricted access to the closely guarded zones and the rapid turnover of the young, mainly female staff who work on short-term contracts in the zones' many electronics and garment factories. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Guarded

Expressions using "guarded": Dijkstra's guarded command language ♦ guarded Horn Clauses ♦ guarded hot plate ♦ guarded switch. Additional references.

Ending with "guarded": closely-guarded, well-guarded.

Albanian

i ruajtur (stored), i mbrojtur (barred), i kujdesshëm (accurate, attentive, canny, careful, cautious, chary, circumspect, circumspective, conservative, considerate, deliberate, diligent, forethoughtful, forward-looking, grandmotherly, heedful, monitorial, observant, precise, thoughtful, up and coming, wary). (various references)

Arabic 

‏محروس, ‏متسم بالحذر, ‏حذر (admonish, advise, alert, alertness, be careful, be wise, beware, cagey, calculating, calculation, canny, care, careful, caution, cautious, cautiousness, chariness, chary, considerate, discreet, discreetness, discretion, exhort, fabian, forewarn, guard, guarding, heedful, leery, look behind, look out, lookout, mind, on the alert, on the lookout, prudence, prudent, safe, shy, shyness, sound an alarm, suspicious, take care, vigilance, vigilant, wariness, warn, wary, watch, wide awake). (various references)

Bulgarian 

внимателен (affable, alert, attentive, careful, cautious, circumspect, considerate, delicate, heedful, intent, nice, precautious, scrupulous, thoughtful, ware, wary, watchful), предпазлив (cagey, canny, careful, cautious, chary, circumspect, cosy, deliberate, deliberative, discreet, fabian, gingerly, open-eyed, precautious, prudent, sparing, ware, wary). (various references)

Chinese 

守卫 (off-guard, Watchman, Watchmen). (various references)

Czech

střežený, rezervovaný (aloof, booked, distant, low key, reserved, restrained, retiring, self contained, stand offish, standoffish, undemonstrative), opatrný (cagey, cagy, cannie, canny, careful, cautious, chary, circumspect, circumspective, conservative, gingerly, prudent, safe, shy, wary), hlídaný. (various references)

Danish

sikkerhedskappe (guarded switch), sikkerhedsafdækning (guarded switch), kontrolleret varmeplade (guarded hot plate). (various references)

Dutch

kap (bonnet, cap, cowl, hood, lamp-shade, roof). (various references)

Finnish

vartioituna (under escort, under guard). (various references)

French

gardé, prudent (guarding), protégé. (various references)

German

bewacht (guards, sentinels), bewachte (sentineled), beschützt (patronizes). (various references)

Greek 

φρουρουμένοσ, επιφυλακτικόσ (canny, cautious, chary, chary of, gingerly, gingery, non committal, offish, qualified, reserved, uncommunicative, undemonstrative). (various references)

Hebrew 

מוגן (defended, protected, shielded), שמור (conservation, guarding, preservation, preserving, reserved, restricted), זהיר (calculating, careful, cautious, chary, discreet, mindful, prudent, vigilant, wary). (various references)

Hungarian

tartózkodó (aloof, chaste, coy, dry, irresponsive, keeping one's distance, offish, reserved, reticent, self contained, self-restrained, shy, standoff, stand-off, standoffish, unresponsive), megfontolt (advised, chary, conscious, considered, deliberate, discreet, earnest, grave, judicious, leisurely, level headed, level-headed, measured, prudent, reflective, sedate, slow, staid, studied, uncompanionable), óvatos beszédű, óvatos (alert, be careful, cagey, cagy, careful, cautious, chary, circumspect, conservative, discreet, fabian, heedful, prudent, reserved, stealthy, wary). (various references)

Italian

protetto (protégé, safe), difeso. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

衛所 (place guarded by soldiers, torpedo room), 仁王門 (Deva gate, temple gate guarded by fierce Deva Kings). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

におうもん (Deva gate, temple gate guarded by fierce Deva Kings, the temple gate of the Nio), えいしょ (barracks, camp, English literature, place guarded by soldiers, torpedo room). (various references)

Korean 

감시하는 (Spied). (various references)

Pig Latin

uardedgay.(various references)

Portuguese

cauteloso (cagey, cannie, cautionary, cautious, deliberate, gingerly, heedful, mature, prudent, reserved, vigilant, wary, watchful). (various references)

Romanian

pãzit (guarding). (various references)

Russian 

сдержанный (chary, checked, continent, demure, distant, frozen, modest, restrained, reticent, self-collected, stand off, stand offish, stand-offish, undemonstrative, unsociable), осмотрительный (canny, cautious, circumspect, deliberate, discreet, gingerly, wary), охранять (guard, keep, policed, policing, protect, stand sentinel over, watch, watch over), охраняемый. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zaštićen (protected), čuvan. (various references)

Spanish

guardado (defensive, packed). (various references)

Swedish

vaktad. (various references)

Thai

ระมัดระวัง (attentive, gingerly, tiptoe). (various references)

Turkish

uyanık (alert, argus-eyed, astir, awake, aware, canny, conscious, enterprising, fly, heady, leery, nimble, on the alert, open-eyed, sharp, shrewd, sleepless, smart, unwinking, vigilant, wakeful, waking, wary, watchful, wide awake, with it), tetikte (argus-eyed, at full cock, aware, on the alert, quick on the trigger, unwinking, vigilant, wakeful, watchful), tedbirli (advised, cagey, canny, careful, cautious, circumspect, deliberate, deliberative, discreet, fabian, fail-proof, fail-safe, forethoughtful, politic, precautionary, prudent, prudential, tactical, wary, well advised), korunan, ihtiyatlı (cagey, cautious, chary, deliberative, discreet, fabian, forethoughtful, heedful, politic, precautionary, provident, prudent, prudential, restrained, shy, temperate, undemonstrative, vigilant, waiting, wary, well advised). (various references)

Ukrainian

стриманий (abstemious, abstentious, abstinent, ascetic, chary, chaste, checked, close, collected, composed, continent, coy, demure, discreet, dry, low key, measured, offish, restrained, reticent, self controlled, self-composed, spartan, stand off, temperate, undemonstrative, well balanced), що охороняється, обачний (awake, canny, careful, cautious, chary, circumspect, circumspective, deliberate, fly, hard-headed, provident, prudent, wary, wise). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thận trọng (advisedly, box, calculating, careful, cautious, chary, circumspect, considerate, discreet, politic, prudent, prudential, tender, vigilant, wary, watchful, wide awake). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "guarded": guardedly, guardedness, guardednesses. (additional references)

Words ending with "guarded": blackguarded, lifeguarded, safeguarded, unguarded. (additional references)

Words containing "guarded": unguardedly, unguardedness, unguardednesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Guarded" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gadred, gaurded, geworden, Giradet, Girardet, guarde, Guarea, Gurdeep, Gurudev. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: argued, drudge, gadder, graded.

-2 letters: adder, argue, auger, dared, dread, dured, grade, guard, raged, readd, rugae, udder, urged.

-3 letters: aged, ager, ague, dare, dead, dear, drag, dreg, drug, duad, dude, dura, dure, egad, gaed, gaud, gaur, gear, grad, grue, guar, gude, rage, read, redd, rudd, rude, rued, ruga, urea, urge.

-4 letters: add, age, are.

+1 letter: ungraded, upgraded.

+2 letters: desugared, draughted, graduated, guardedly, redargued, undergrad, unguarded.

+3 letters: daundering, defrauding, outdragged, unabridged, undergrads.

+4 letters: deregulated, discouraged, dreadnought, goddaughter, guardedness, lifeguarded, safeguarded, superadding, unguardedly.

+5 letters: backgrounded, blackguarded, disregardful, dreadnoughts, goddaughters, gourmandized, undercharged, undischarged.