English Dictionary

chary

/ˈtʃɛəɹi/

adj

Careful, cautious, shy, wary. / Excessively particular or fussy about details; fastidious. / Not disposed to give freely; not lavish; frugal, sparing.

She is chary of sharing her personal information online.

意味（1）

Careful, cautious, shy, wary.

The Charieſt maide is prodigall enough, / If ſhe vnmaske hir beautie to the Moone.

意味（2）

Excessively particular or fussy about details; fastidious.

True, the wreath might have been improved with a little more care; … Though, after all, we are, perhaps, too chary; for in nature every leaf is not ironed out to a form, nor propped up with a wiry precision; but blown and ruffled by the refreshing breezes, and looking as easy, and careless, and unaffected, as a child that bounds along with its silken locks tossed to and fro just as the wind uplifts them. Page after page of this volume have we perused with a feeling of pleasure and admiration.

意味（3）

Not disposed to give freely; not lavish; frugal, sparing.

Oh! look not thus o'erjoy'd, for if I thought / We e'er could meet again this side the grave, / Trust me, I had been charier of my tenderness.

意味（4）

(obsolete) Cared for, regarded as precious; cherished.

The bounty so much delighted mine host, that he ran to fill the stirrup-cup (for which no charge was ever made) from a butt yet charier than that which he had pierced for the former stoup.