worried
adjective
[ ˈwʌrɪd ]
• anxious or troubled about actual or potential problems.
• "Michelle knew that her friends were very worried about her"
Similar:
anxious,
disturbed,
perturbed,
troubled,
bothered,
distressed,
concerned,
upset,
distraught,
worried sick,
disquieted,
uneasy,
ill at ease,
fretful,
fretting,
agitated,
in a state of agitation,
nervous,
edgy,
on edge,
like a cat on a hot tin roof,
tense,
overwrought,
worked up,
keyed up,
strung out,
jumpy,
with one's stomach in knots,
stressed,
under stress,
distracted,
apprehensive,
fearful,
afraid,
frightened,
scared,
quaking,
trembling,
shaking in one's shoes,
in a cold sweat,
uptight,
a bundle of nerves,
on tenterhooks,
hassled,
jittery,
twitchy,
in a state,
wired,
in a stew,
in a dither,
all of a dither,
in a flap,
in a sweat,
in a tizz/tizzy,
all of a lather,
het up,
in a twitter,
rattled,
strung up,
stressy,
windy,
having kittens,
antsy,
spooky,
spooked,
squirrelly,
in a twit,
toey,
overstrung,
unquiet,
shitting bricks,
bricking oneself,
worry
verb
• feel or cause to feel anxious or troubled about actual or potential problems.
• "he worried about his soldier sons in the war"
Similar:
fret,
be worried,
be concerned,
be anxious,
agonize,
brood,
dwell on,
panic,
get in a panic,
lose sleep,
get worked up,
get in a fluster,
get overwrought,
be on tenterhooks,
get stressed,
get in a flap,
get in a state,
get in a tizz/tizzy,
get in a sweat,
sweat,
get steamed up,
get in a lather,
stew,
torture oneself,
torment oneself,
be in a blue funk,
alarming,
concerning,
worrisome,
daunting,
perturbing,
trying,
taxing,
vexatious,
niggling,
bothersome,
troublesome,
unsettling,
harassing,
harrying,
harrowing,
nerve-racking,
distressing,
dismaying,
disquieting,
upsetting,
traumatic,
unpleasant,
awkward,
difficult,
tricky,
thorny,
problematic,
grave,
scary,
hairy,
sticky,
prickly,
anxious-making,
• (of a dog or other carnivorous animal) tear at or pull about with the teeth.
• "I found my dog contentedly worrying a bone"
Origin:
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).
