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Contemplative vs Wary - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between contemplative and wary

is that contemplative is inclined to contemplate; introspective and thoughtful; meditative while wary is cautious of danger; carefully watching and guarding against deception, artifices, and dangers; timorously or suspiciously prudent; circumspect; scrupulous; careful.

As a noun contemplative

is someone who has dedicated themselves to religious contemplation.

contemplative

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Inclined to contemplate; introspective and thoughtful; meditative.
  • * 1873 , (John Stuart Mill), Autobiography , Chapter 5:
    • Compared with the greatest poets, he may be said to be the poet of unpoetical natures, possessed of quiet and contemplative tastes. But unpoetical natures are precisely those which require poetic cultivation. This cultivation Wordsworth is much more fitted to give, than poets who are intrinsically far more poets than he.
  • Pertaining especially to a contemplative Roman Catholic religious or one of the contemplative Roman Catholic religious orders.
  • * 1870 , (Charles Dickens), The Mystery of Edwin Drood , Chapter 3:
    • Whether the nuns of yore, being of a submissive rather than a stiff-necked generation, habitually bent their contemplative heads to avoid collision with the beams in the low ceilings of the many chambers of their House [...] may be matters of interest to its haunting ghosts (if any), but constitute no item in Miss Twinkleton's half-yearly accounts.
  • Relating to, or having the power of, contemplation.
    • contemplative faculties

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who has dedicated themselves to religious contemplation.
  • * 2009 , (Karen Armstrong), The Case for God , Vintage 2010, p. 112:
    • The contemplative must not expect exotic feelings, visions or heavenly voices; these did not come from God but from his own fevered imagination and would merely distract him from his true objective [...].
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    wary

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Cautious of danger; carefully watching and guarding against deception, artifices, and dangers; timorously or suspiciously prudent; circumspect; scrupulous; careful.
    • He is wary of dogs.
  • Characterized by caution; guarded; careful.

    • Synonyms

    * cautious, guarded, careful, chary

    Derived terms

    * unwary * warily * wariness

    Anagrams

    * *

    See also

    * weary