GUARDED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does guarded mean? 

• GUARDED (adjective)
  The adjective GUARDED has 1 sense:

1. prudent

  Familiarity information: GUARDED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GUARDED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Prudent

Synonyms:

guarded; restrained

Context example:

guarded optimism

Similar:

cautious (showing careful forethought)

 Context examples 

Grey Beaver ordered meat to be brought to him, and guarded him from the other dogs while he ate.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Every portal to success in literature is guarded by those watch-dogs, the failures in literature.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Every thing declared it; his own attentions, his father's hints, his mother-in-law's guarded silence; it was all in unison; words, conduct, discretion, and indiscretion, told the same story.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

There you shall live a happy, and guarded, and most innocent life.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She was accordingly more guarded, and more cool, than she had been the night before.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

She must be well brought up, and well guarded from reposing any foolish confidences where they are not deserved.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The woman now gave Dorothy a bed to sleep in, and Toto lay down beside her, while the Lion guarded the door of her room so she might not be disturbed.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Young women should always be properly guarded and attended, according to their situation in life.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Be guarded in crossing the London streets, for I am told that the hackney coaches are past all imagining.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Likewise in the castle lay great treasures, which were guarded by evil spirits, and these treasures would then be freed, and would make a poor man rich enough.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)