Unwary

Definition: Unwary

Unwary

Adjective

1. Not alert to danger or deception; "the shrieks of unwary animals taken by surprise"; "some thieves prey especially on unwary travelers"; "seduce the unwary reader into easy acquiescence"- O.J.Campbell.

Date "unwary" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1415. (references)

Note: Unwary \Un*wa"ry\, adjective. [Compare to Unware.]. (Websters 1913)

Antonym: wary (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Neglect	Inconsiderate; uncircumspect, incircumspect; off one's guard; unwary, unwatchful, unguarded; offhand.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Unwary

English words defined with "unwary": Wareless. (references)

Specialty definitions using "unwary": Captain Abstraction ♦ HUNTING ♦ Valley of the Shadow of Death. (references)

Etymologies containing "unwary": Unware. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Their credo is to sow discord and to kill the unwary. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	All Unwary (reference) Little Maid All Unwary (reference) Woe to the unwary : a memoir of low level bombing operations, 1941 (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Virgil	A sudden madness came down upon the unwary lover [Orpheus] -- forgivable, surely, if Death knew how to forgive.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Political Economy	NIGERIA	Criminal fraud conducted against unwary investors and personal security are chronic problems in Nigeria. (references)
Travel	Spain	Crime information: Minor crimes such as pick pocketing, robbery, and theft from cars are frequent and are often directed against unwary tourists. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Unwary" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 65.33% of the time. "Unwary" is used about 75 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	65.33%	49	48,677
Noun (singular)	34.67%	26	68,323
Total	100.00%	75	N/A

Language		Translations for "unwary"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i pamatur (imprudent, inadvisable, indiscreet, rash, reckless, spanless, unguarded, unmeasured, unsounded, unwise). (various references)

Arabic		‏متهور (audacious, blind, blindfold, blindfolded, brash, careless, daredevil, daredevilry, desperate, devil may care, excessive, extravagant, foolhardy, harum scarum, hasty, headlong, heady, heedless, hot-headed, immaterial, impetuous, impish, imprudent, impulsive, inconsiderate, light-headed, madcap, precipitate, precipitous, rash, reckless, slapdash, temerarious, too hasty, unrestrained), ‏غير حذر (incautious, unguarded), ‏غافل (asleep, heedless, inadvertent, inattentive, incautious, incurious, insensible, oblivious, regardless, thriftless, unmindful, unthinking). (various references)

Bulgarian		необмислен (blind, crude, hasty, heedless, ill-considered, ill-judged, impetuous, imprudent, incautious, inconsiderate, light hearted, light-headed, overbold, precipitate, precipitatious, rash, reckless, snap, thoughtless, unadvised, unconsidered, unguarded, unthinking, wild), непредпазлив (heedless, imprudent, incautious, indiscreet, unguarded), прибързан (brash, hasty, headlong, ill-advised, impetuous, light hearted, overbold, precipitate, precipitatious, premature, previous, rash, slapdash, sudden, unthinking, untimely). (various references)

Czech		neopatrný (careless, heedless, imprudent, incautious, uncanny). (various references)

Farsi		نااگاه , بدون نگرانی , بدون تعجب وتشویش . (various references)

French		imprudent (unadvised, unguarded, unwarily, unwise). (various references)

German		unvorsichtig (careless, carelessly, improvident, imprudent, incautious, incautiously, rash, uncareful, unguarded, unwarily), unachtsam (careless, heedless, inadvertent, inattentive, thoughtless, thoughtlessly, unguarded, unheedful, unobservant, unobservantly, unwarily). (various references)

Greek		ξένοιαστοσ (carefree, easy going, insouciant, jaunty), απρόσεκτοσ (careless, dabbler, heedless, inadvertent, inattentive, incautious, mindless, negligent, perfunctory, reckless, regardless, slap dash, thoughtless, unguarded, unmindful). (various references)

Hebrew		לא ז�"יר (imprudent, incautious, reckless, unguarded). (various references)

Hungarian		meggondolatlan (blindfold, blundering, foolhardy, hare-brained, hasty, headlong, heedless, ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-judged, impetuous, impolitic, imprudent, impudent, incautious, injudicious, precipitate, rash, reckless, thoughtless, to lack ballast, unadvised, unreflecting, unthinking), könnyelmû (dissolute, flighty, flyaway, frivolous, hoity toity, improvident, light minded, light-headed, rollicking, wanton). (various references)

Italian		incauto (careless, incautious, unwarily). (various references)

Pig Latin		aryunway

Portuguese		precipitado (brash, cursory, desperate, hasty, headlong, heady, heedless, hot-blooded, hurried, hurry, impolitic, imprudent, precipitant, precipitate, previous, rash, unadvised, unthinking, unwise), negligente (careless, derelict, devil-may-care, heedless, idle, inadvertent, inattentive, incurious, inobservant, lazy, loose, mindless, neglectful, negligent, perfunctory, reckless, regardless, slack, unheeding, unmindful), irrefletido (flighty, giddy, hurry, ill-considered, impulsive, inconsiderate, light-minded, reckless, thoughtless, unadvised, unreflecting, unthinking), incauto (improvident), imprudente (audacious, brash, foolhardy, hasty, headlong, heedless, hurry, ill-considered, impolitic, imprudent, inconsiderate, injudicious, rash, reckless, thoughtless, unadvised, undiplomatic, unthinking, unwise), imprevidente (casual, improvident, inadvertent, thoughtless), descuidado (brainless, carefree, careless, casual, harebrained, heedless, inadvertent, incautious, light-minded, mindless, neglectful, negligent, perfunctory, reckless, regardless, remiss, scatterbrained, slapdash, sloppy, thoughtless, unheeding, unmindful, unthinking, untidy). (various references)

Romanian		nevigilent, neglijent (careless, casual, casually, derelict, floppy, forgetful, inadvertent, loose, neglectful, negligent, ragged, remiss, slack in duty, slacky, sleazy, slipshod, slothful, unheeding, unkempt, unmindful, untidy). (various references)

Russian		неосторожный (harebrained, incautious, indiscreet). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		nesmotren (heedless, ill-advised, improvident, imprudent, inadvertent, incautious, reckless), neoprezan (careless, improvident, incautious, uncanny, unguarded). (various references)

Spanish		incauto (careless, dupe, incautious, unguarded, unwarily). (various references)

Swedish		ouppmärksam (absent, careless, inadvertant, inadvertent, inattentive, negligent, unattentive), oförsiktig (careless, improvident, imprudent, incautious, indiscreet). (various references)

Turkish		uyanık olmayan (unenterprising), tedbirsiz (ill-advised, ill-judged, improvident, imprudent, incautious, inconsiderate, injudicious, unadvised), ihtiyatsız (heedless, ill-advised, imprudent, incautious, inconsiderate, unguarded), gafil (careless, incautious, remiss, unguarded, unprovided), dikkatsiz (careless, freewheeling, heedless, inadvertent, inattentive, incurious, lax, listless, mindless, regardless, remiss, slipshod, unaware, unheedful, unheeding, unobservant, unregardful, unseeing). (various references)

Ukrainian		необережний (ill-considered, incautious, wareless). (various references)

Vietnamese		không thận trọng (imprudent, thoughtless), không cẩn thận; khinh suất. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Unwary" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ansary, Anwatr, Kunwar, Nuwara, unaw, Uncaria, uneary, unmarry, unrar, unward, unwaxy. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "unwary" (pronounced unwe"rē)
4	-w e" r ē	wary, wherry.
3	-e" r ē	airy, Barre, Berry, Bury, Canary, cherry, Clary, dairy, Derry, eyrie, fairy, ferry, Glengarry, hairy, Harry, Jerry, Kerry, marry, merry, nary, Parry, Perry, prairie, remarry, scary, sherry, skerry, Tarry, Terry, vary, very.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: runway.
	Words within the letters "a-n-r-u-w-y"
	-1 letter: unary.
	-2 letters: awny, awry, nary, wany, warn, wary, waur, yarn, yawn, yuan.
	-3 letters: any, awn, naw, nay, ran, raw, ray, run, rya, urn, wan, war, way, wry, wyn, yar, yaw.
	-4 letters: an, ar, aw, ay, na, nu, un, ya.
	Words containing the letters "a-n-r-u-w-y"
	+1 letter: runaway, runways, unweary.
	+2 letters: runaways, underway, unwarily.
	+3 letters: unawarely.
	+4 letters: untowardly.
	+5 letters: outwearying, unseaworthy, unweariedly.
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