Word.ws English Dictionary

cagier

cagier is the comparative form of cagey.

Meaning of cagey

Adjective

cagey (comparative cagier, superlative cagiest)

  1. Wary, careful, shrewd.
    • We move like cagey tigers / Oh, we couldn't get closer than this1983, Robert Smith, “The Lovecats”, performed by The Cure
  2. Uncommunicative; unwilling or hesitant to give information.
    • John F Kennedy’s secret talks with Soviet intelligence, surreptitious tape recordings and “girlfriend system” create a new portrait of a cunning and cagey JFK, according to a historian who has researched a treasure trove of recently released recordings and papers of the late president.2015 October 7, Alan Yuhas, “JFK: declassified documents reveal a cunning and cagey president”, in The Guardian
    Synonyms:
    evasive, reticent, shy

Questions about cagier

What is cagier the comparative form of?
Cagier is the comparative form of cagey.

Words near cagier in the dictionary

  1. cagged
  2. Caggiano
  3. Caggianos
  4. cagging
  5. Cagiano
  6. cagier
  7. cagiest
  8. cagily
  9. caginess
  10. caging
  11. cagings

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cagier (page history and authors); cagey (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “cagier.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/cagier. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.