guarded

verb

1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of guard

adj

1. Cautious; restrained.

   “guarded outlook”

   “guarded optimism”

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

2. Cautious; restrained.

   “guarded prognosis”

   “prognosis is guarded”

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

   “On the helmet , which is of gold, affrontee, guarded with perpendicular bars, and adorned with a mantled gules, doubled, or, is this crest.”

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

   “Sable, an eagle displayed argent, crowned with an electoral bonnet gules, guarded argent (or ermine).”

   “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.”