worrying
Meaning of worrying
- causing anxiety about actual or potential problems; alarming.
a worrying health risk
- 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
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 worrying
- The plural form of worrying is: worryings.
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Hyphenation of worrying
wor-ry-ing
- It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
- worrying is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
worrying synonyms
Meaning distressing:
distressing, distressful, disturbing, perturbing, troubling, worrisome
Meaning badgering:
badgering, torment, bedevilment
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 seeming difficult to deal with in prospect; intimidating:
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 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:
Words that rhyme with worrying
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