Adjacent Words

Worrying definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

WORRYING, ppr. Teasing; troubling; harassing; fatiguing; tearing.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: 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] n
1: the act of harassing someone [syn: badgering, worrying, torment, bedevilment]
2: the act of moving something by repeated tugs or pushes; "vigorous worrying finally loosened the saw"

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Worry Wor"ry, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Worried; p. pr. & vb. n. Worrying.] [OE. worowen, wirien, to strangle, AS. wyrgan in [=a]wyrgan; akin to D. worgen, wurgen, to strangle, OHG. wurgen, G. w["u]rgen, Lith. verszti, and perhaps to E. wring.] 1. To harass by pursuit and barking; to attack repeatedly; also, to tear or mangle with the teeth. A hellhound that doth hunt us all to death; That dog that had his teeth before his eyes, To worry lambs and lap their gentle blood. --Shak. 2. To harass or beset with importunity, or with care an anxiety; to vex; to annoy; to torment; to tease; to fret; to trouble; to plague. ``A church worried with reformation.'' --South. Let them rail, And worry one another at their pleasure. --Rowe. Worry him out till he gives consent. --Swift. 3. To harass with labor; to fatigue. [Colloq.]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If something is worrying, it causes people to worry. (mainly BRIT; in AM, usually use worrisome) It's worrying that they're doing things without training. ...a new and worrying report about smoking. ADJ: oft it v-link ADJ that • worryingly The rate of assaults was worryingly high... ADV: ADV adj, ADV with cl

Moby Thesaurus

aggravating, annoying, bothering, bothersome, chafing, disquieting, distressful, distressing, disturbing, exasperating, fretting, galling, harassing, harassment, importunate, importune, irking, irksome, irritating, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, plaguesome, plaguey, plaguing, provoking, teasing, tiresome, torment, tormenting, troublesome, troubling, upsetting, vexatious, vexing, wearisome, worriedness, worries and cares, worriment, worrisome, worry