guarded

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of guard

comparative more guarded · superlative most guarded

1. Cautious; restrained.

   guarded outlook

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   guarded optimism

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

   1. medicineA good outcome has fair odds of happening but close monitoring is important because odds of deterioration are not low.

      guarded prognosis

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      prognosis is guarded

2. Watched over; supervised.
3. especiallygovernmentHaving a guard, e.g. a crossguard (on a sword), a faceguard (on a helmet), or a hatguard (on a chapeau).

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

   1866, John Edwin Cussans, The Grammar of Heraldry, page 84

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   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

   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