Guarded and Ready

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Guarded adjective - Having or showing a close attentiveness to avoiding danger or trouble.

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Ready and guarded are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Ready" instead an adjective "Guarded".

Nearby Words: guard, guardedly, guarding

Ready adjective - Being in a state of fitness for some experience or action.

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Guarded and ready are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Guarded" instead an adjective "Ready".

Nearby Words: readiness, readily, readying, readied

Lee and Kara in this setting are older, much more guarded, and much less ready to trust one another than they were in canon.

Source: Fanfic Recs / Battlestar Galactica (2003)
Confederate troops get ready to ambush a civilian camp guarded by Union soldiers, but when they hear a woman screaming, they charge thinking she's being tortured.

Source: Comic Book / Les Tuniques Bleues
Used for showing the escalation of a relationship with characters who so far have been emotionally guarded or whose previous relationships have all been strictly casual, but who now want to show their lover that they're ready to let them into their lives.

Source: I Got You a Drawer

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