guarded

verb

1. 1

   Also a form of guardsimple past and past participle of guard

adjective

1. 1

   Cautious; restrained.

   guarded outlook

   guarded optimism

   The employees reacted with guarded optimism to the new agreement reached by their trade union.

2. 2

   Cautious; restrained. A good outcome has fair odds of happening but close monitoring is important because odds of deterioration are not low.

   guarded prognosis

   prognosis is guarded

3. 3

   Watched over; supervised.

4. 4

   Having a guard, e.g. a crossguard (on a sword), a faceguard (on a helmet), or a hatguard (on a chapeau).

   On the helmet , which is of gold, affrontee, guarded with perpendicular bars, and adorned with a mantled gules, doubled, or, is this crest.

   On a chapeau gules, guarded ermine, a gurnet (fish) urinant proper.

   Sable, an eagle displayed argent, crowned with an electoral bonnet gules, guarded argent (or ermine).

   Or, three swords in fess palewise azure, guarded vert, hilted gules; unidentified. Fouquet suggests that this is the device of the fictional king of Monteini, but notes that it might be the device of the fictional king of Bicheny.

Forms

comparative

more guarded

superlative

most guarded