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worrisome
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective worrisome has 2 senses
- worrisome(a = adj.all) unreassuring - not reassuring; tending to cause anxiety; Array
- worrisome(s = adj.all) distressful, distressing, disturbing, perturbing, troubling, worrying - causing distress or worry or anxiety; "distressing (or disturbing) news"; "lived in heroic if something distressful isolation"; "a disturbing amount of crime"; "a revelation that was most perturbing"; "a new and troubling thought"; "in a particularly worrisome predicament"; "a worrying situation"; "a worrying time"
CIDE DICTIONARY
worrisome, a.
Inclined to worry or fret; also, causing worry or annoyance. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
worrisome, adj. causing or apt to cause worry or distress.
Derivative
worrisomely adv.
THESAURUS
worrisome
aggravating, annoying, bothering, bothersome, chafing, disquieting, distressful, distressing, disturbing, exasperating, fretting, galling, harassing, importunate, importune, irking, irksome, irritating, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, plaguesome, plaguey, plaguing, provoking, teasing, tiresome, tormenting, troublesome, troubling, upsetting, vexatious, vexing, wearisome, worrying
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