guarded
adjUS /ˈɡɑɹdɪd/ · UK /ˈɡɑːdɪd/
1
Cautious; restrained.
- guarded outlook
- guarded optimism
1 more example
- The employees reacted with guarded optimism to the new agreement reached by their trade union.
2
Medicine, Sciences Of prognosis 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
Watched over; supervised.
4
Government, Heraldry, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Monarchy, Nobility, Politics Especially 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.1819, Thomas George Lomax, A Short Account of the City and Close of Lichfield: To which is Added A Short Account of the Cathedral ..., page 31:
- On a chapeau gules, guarded ermine, a gurnet (fish) urinant proper.1866, John Edwin Cussans, The Grammar of Heraldry, page 84:
2 more examples
- Sable, an eagle displayed argent, crowned with an electoral bonnet gules, guarded argent (or ermine).1893, Notes and Queries, page 129:
- 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.2015 12, Elizabeth Archibald, David F. Johnson, Arthurian Literature XXXII, Boydell & Brewer, →ISBN, page 160:
- Derived terms
- guardedly, guardedness, guarded rights, nonguarded, unguarded