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worrisome definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: not reassuring; tending to cause anxiety [syn: unreassuring, worrisome] [ant: reassuring]
2: 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" [syn: distressing, distressful, disturbing, perturbing, troubling, worrisome, worrying]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1833 1. causing distress or worry <worrisome news> 2. inclined to worry or fret <investors feeling worrisome> • worrisomely adverb • worrisomeness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. causing or apt to cause worry or distress. Derivatives: worrisomely adv.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Worrisome Wor"ri*some, a. Inclined to worry or fret; also, causing worry or annoyance.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Something that is worrisome causes people to worry. (mainly AM; in BRIT, usually use worrying) ADJ

Moby Thesaurus

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