guarded

4 definitions • 5 examples

careful not to give too much information or show how you really feel:

a guarded response

careful in speech in order to avoid giving information:

The president made a guarded, lawyerly response.

careful not to give too much information or show how you really feel:

a guarded response

Conversation on the trading floor tends to be polite but guarded.

protected from being known, found, harmed, or taken:

carefully/closely/fiercely guarded a carefully guarded secret