leery
Meaning of leery
adjective
- cautious or wary due to realistic suspicions.
a city leery of gang violence
late 17th century: from obsolete leer ‘looking askance’, from leer1 + -y1.
Information about leery
- It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of leery
leery
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- leery is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
leery synonyms
Meaning mistrustful:
mistrustful, suspicious, untrusting, wary
Meaning (of a person) careful to avoid potential problems or dangers:
Meaning making sure of avoiding potential danger, mishap, or harm; cautious:
Meaning cautious and having possible reservations:
Meaning cautiously or suspiciously reluctant to do something:
Meaning feeling or showing distrust of someone or something:
Meaning be suspicious of; have no confidence in:
Meaning hesitating or doubting:
Meaning not easily convinced; having doubts or reservations:
Meaning anxious or troubled about actual or potential problems:
Meaning feeling or showing worry, nervousness, or unease about something with an uncertain outcome:
Meaning anxious or fearful that something bad or unpleasant will happen:
leery antonyms
Meaning showing a reckless lack of care or attention:
Meaning having or marked by a total belief in the reliability, truth, or ability of someone:
Anagrams of leery
Words that rhyme with leery
eery, beery, Deery, cheery, uncheery, jeery, skeery, bleery, whigmaleery, engineery, sneery, Peery, peery, McCreery, camsteery, steery, queery, veery
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