worrying
adjective
[ ˈwʌrɪɪŋ ]
• causing anxiety about actual or potential problems; alarming.
• "a worrying health risk"
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).
