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CHARY
Definition of CHARY
adjective
Careful, cautious, shy, wary.
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Other senses
CHARY carries 4 further meanings.
adjective
Very cautious; wary.
“was chary of the risks involved.”
adjective
Not giving or expending freely; sparing.
“was chary of compliments.”
Careful; disposed to cherish with care; cautious: often with of.
Sparing; not lavish; not disposed to give freely; frugal: absolute or with of: as, chary of compliments; chary of favors.
Where it comes from
From Middle English chari, charre, charri, chary, Early Middle English cearig, chariȝ (“concerned with, diligent; sad, sorrowful; of a person: cherished, loved”), from Old English ċeariġ (“careful; pensive; chary, wary; anxious, sad, sorrowful; dire, grievous”), from Proto-West Germanic *karag (“anxious; sad”), from Proto-Germanic *karō + *-gaz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵeh₂r- (“exclamation; voice”) + *-kos (suffix forming adjectives with the meaning ‘pertaining to; typical of’)); analysable as care + -y. The English word is cognate with Danish karrig (“miserly, stingy”), Dutch karig (“austere, scant, sparing”), Norwegian karrig (“barren; meagre; poor”), Old High German charag, karag (“sparing”) (modern German karg (“barren; meagre, poor”)), Old Saxon carag, karag, Swedish karg (“austere; barren; hungry; needy, poor”). See further at care.
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Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
8.9%
of traced words share this origin (2,636)
How it is built
Its etymology also names Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish.
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
CHARY in a sentence
“The Telangana JAC district convenor Dr. K.naka chary and Co,. convener, K. Rangaraju and a host of other leaders took part.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CHARY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 54 boards so far. 129 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 30, 19 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 30, 19 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CHARY starts with C and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ACHRY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of CHARY. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Also seen on Day 30
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