worries
Meaning of worries
verb, 3rd person present
- feel or cause to feel anxious or troubled about actual or potential problems.
he worried about his soldier sons in the war
I began to worry whether I had done the right thing
there was no need to worry her
- (of a dog or other carnivorous animal) tear at or pull about with the teeth.
I found my dog contentedly worrying a bone
- the state of being anxious and troubled over actual or potential problems.
he's demented with worry
her son had been a constant source of worry to her
Old English wyrgan ‘strangle’, of West Germanic origin. In Middle English the original sense of the verb gave rise to the meaning ‘seize by the throat and tear’, later figuratively ‘harass’, whence ‘cause anxiety to’ (early 19th century, the date also of the noun).
Information about worries
- The singular form of worries is: worry.
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Hyphenation of worries
wor-ries
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- worries is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
worries synonyms
Meaning be constantly or visibly anxious:
Meaning undergo great mental anguish through worrying about something:
Meaning think deeply about something that makes one unhappy, angry, or worried:
Meaning feel or cause to feel panic:
Meaning worry about (something):
Meaning worry about something, especially on one's own:
Meaning worrying or disturbing:
Meaning on the subject of or in connection with; about:
Meaning causing anxiety or concern:
Meaning seeming difficult to deal with in prospect; intimidating:
Meaning causing anxiety or concern; unsettling:
Meaning difficult or annoying; hard to endure:
Meaning physically or mentally demanding:
Meaning causing or tending to cause annoyance, frustration, or worry:
Meaning causing slight but persistent annoyance, discomfort, or anxiety:
Meaning annoying; troublesome:
Meaning causing difficulty or annoyance:
Meaning causing anxiety or uneasiness; disturbing:
Meaning the action of subjecting someone to aggressive pressure or intimidation:
Meaning persistently harass:
Meaning acutely distressing:
Meaning causing anxiety, sorrow or pain; upsetting:
Meaning causing concern and distress:
Meaning inducing feelings of anxiety or worry:
Meaning causing unhappiness, disappointment, or worry:
Meaning deeply disturbing or distressing:
Meaning causing discomfort, unhappiness, or revulsion; disagreeable:
Meaning causing difficulty; hard to do or deal with:
Meaning needing much effort or skill to accomplish, deal with, or understand:
Meaning (of a task, problem, etc.) requiring care and skill because difficult or awkward:
Meaning having many thorns or thorn bushes:
Meaning constituting or presenting a problem:
Meaning a hole dug in the ground to receive a coffin or dead body, typically marked by a stone or mound:
Meaning frightening; causing fear:
Meaning covered with hair:
Meaning tending or designed to stick to things on contact:
Meaning covered in prickles:
Meaning a feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease about something with an uncertain outcome:
Meaning a state in which normal mental or physical functioning is disrupted:
Meaning anxiety; mental uneasiness:
Meaning difficulty or problems:
Meaning effort, trouble, or difficulty:
Meaning extreme anxiety, sorrow, or pain:
Meaning anxiety; worry:
Meaning a feeling of or occasion for anxiety:
Meaning the state of being unhappy, disappointed, or worried:
Meaning a feeling of anxiety or discomfort:
Meaning anxiety or discontent:
Meaning a feeling of worry or unease:
Meaning a state of uneasiness or anxiety:
Meaning the state or feeling of being disturbed or unsettled:
Meaning the inability to rest or relax as a result of anxiety or boredom:
Meaning the quality or state of being nervous:
Meaning feelings of nervousness:
Meaning a state of anxiety or nervous excitement:
Meaning mental or emotional strain:
Meaning a state of mental or emotional strain or tension resulting from adverse or demanding circumstances:
Meaning a force tending to pull or stretch something to an extreme or damaging degree:
Meaning anxiety or fear that something bad or unpleasant will happen:
Meaning an unpleasant emotion caused by the threat of danger, pain, or harm:
Meaning great fear or apprehension:
Meaning a feeling that something bad will happen; fearful apprehension:
Meaning a feeling of fear or anxiety about something that may happen:
Meaning a feeling of doubt or apprehension about the outcome or consequences of something:
Meaning a feeling of deep anxiety or dread, typically an unfocused one about the human condition or the state of the world in general:
Meaning the quality or state of being nervous or anxious:
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