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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | anxious, troubled |
| Synonyms: | afraid, apprehensive, beside oneself, bothered, clutched, concerned, distracted, distraught, distressed, disturbed, fearful, fretful, frightened, hung up, ill at ease, nervous, on edge, on pins and needles, overwrought, perturbed, solicitous, tense, tormented, uneasy, upset, uptight, worried stiff |
| Antonyms: | calm, untroubled, unworried |
| Main Entry: | afraid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fearful |
| Synonyms: | abashed, aghast, alarmed, anxious, apprehensive, aroused, blanched, cowardly, cowed, daunted, discouraged, disheartened, dismayed, distressed, disturbed, faint-hearted, frightened, frozen, have cold feet, horrified, in awe, intimidated, nervous, panic-stricken, perplexed, perturbed, petrified, rattled, run scared, scared, scared stiff, scared to death, shocked, spooked, startled, stunned, suspicious, terrified, terror-stricken, timid, timorous, trembling, upset, worried |
| Antonyms: | bold, brave, composed, confident, cool, courageous, fearless, heroic, intrepid, unafraid, undaunted, valiant |
| Main Entry: | apprehensive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | anxious, fearful |
| Synonyms: | afraid, alarmed, biting nails, butterflies, concerned, disquieted, doubtful, feel in bones, foreboding, frozen*, get vibes, have a hunch, have cold feet, have funny feeling, have stage fright, hung up, in a cold sweat, in a dither, in a sweat, jellyfish, jittery, jumpy, lily-livered, mistrustful, running scared, scaredy-cat, shaky*, stiff, suspicious, troubled, uncertain, uneasy, uptight, weak, worried, worried sick |
| Antonyms: | at ease, calm, quiet, unafraid, undoubting, unfearful, unsuspicious, unworried |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | distraught |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very upset, worked-up |
| Synonyms: | addled, agitated, anxious, beside oneself, bothered, concerned, confused, crazed, crazy, discomposed, distracted, distrait, distressed, flustered, frantic, harassed, hysterical, in a panic, like a chicken with its head cut off, mad, muddled, nonplussed, nuts, out of one's mind, overwrought, perturbed, rattled, raving, shook up, thrown, tormented, troubled, unglued, unscrewed, unzipped, wild, worried |
| Notes: | distrait means 'absent-minded as a result of apprehension, worry, etc.' while distraught means 'agitated' and 'bewildered, distracted' |
| Antonyms: | calm, gladdened, happy, pleased, untroubled |
| Main Entry: | distressed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | upset |
| Synonyms: | afflicted, agitated, all torn up, antsy, anxious, basket case, bothered, bugged, bummed out, bundle of nerves, concerned, cut up, discombobulated*, disconsolate, distracted, distrait, distraught, dragged, exercised, fidgety, harassed, hyper, in a stew, in a tizzy, inconsolable, jittery, jumpy, miffed, peeved, perturbed, ripped, saddened, shaky, shook, shook up, shot down, spooked, strung out, tormented, troubled, unconsolable, unglued, up the wall, uptight*, wired, worried, wrecked, wretched |
| Antonyms: | calm, collected, comforted, glad, happy, joyful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fearful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | alarmed, apprehensive |
| Synonyms: | aflutter, afraid, aghast, agitated, anxious, chicken, chickenhearted, diffident, discomposed, disquieted, disturbed, fainthearted, frightened, goose-bumpy, have cold feet, hesitant, in a dither, intimidated, jittery, jumpy, lily-livered, mousy, nerveless, nervous, nervy, panicky, perturbed, phobic, pusillanimous, quivery, rabbity, running scared, scared, shaky, sheepish*, shrinking, shy, skittish, solicitous, spineless, tense, timid, timorous, tremulous, uneasy, unmanly, weak-kneed, worried, yellow* |
| Notes: | someone may be fearful; someone or something may be fearsome |
| Antonyms: | bold, brave, courageous, inapprehensive, unafraid, unfearful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fretful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irritable |
| Synonyms: | captious, carping, caviling, complaining, contrary, crabby, cranky*, critical, cross, crotchety, edgy, faultfinding, fractious, huffy, mean, ornery*, out of sorts, peevish, perverse, petulant, querulous, short-tempered, snappish, splenetic, testy, touchy, uneasy, worried, wreck* |
| Antonyms: | calm, cheered, easy-going, happy, joyous, laid-back, pleased, relaxed |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | harried |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pressured |
| Synonyms: | agitated, anxious, at wit's end, beset, bothered, distressed, harassed, hard-pressed, stressed, troubled, worried |
| Main Entry: | nervous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | anxious, fearful |
| Synonyms: | afraid, agitated, annoyed, apprehensive, basket case, bothered, concerned, distressed, disturbed, edgy, excitable, fidgety, fitful, flustered, fussy*, hesitant, high-strung, hysterical, irritable, jittery, jumpy, nervy, neurotic, on edge, overwrought, querulous, restive, ruffled, sensitive, shaky*, shrinking, shy, skittish, snappish, solicitous, spooked, taut, tense, timid, timorous, troubled, twitchy, uneasy, unrestful, unstrung, upset, uptight, volatile, weak, wired, worried |
| Antonyms: | brave, calm, unafraid, unnervous, unworried |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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