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worrying
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | worried |
| Synonyms: | anxious, bothered, burdened, concerned, disquieted, nervous, pessimistic |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, happy, lighthearted, upbeat |
| Main Entry: | worry |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be or make anxious, troubled |
| Synonyms: | afflict, aggrieve, agonize, ail, annoy, attack, bedevil, beleaguer, beset, bite one's nails, bother, brood, bug*, chafe, concern oneself, depress, despair, disquiet, distress, disturb, dun, feel uneasy, fret, gnaw at, go for, goad, harass, harry, hassle, have qualms, hector, importune, irritate, needle, oppress, persecute, perturb, pester, plague, stew, sweat out, take on, tantalize, tear, tease, test, torment, torture, trouble, try, unsettle, upset, vex, wince, writhe, wrong |
| Antonyms: | reassure |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | disquieting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | upsetting |
| Synonyms: | annoying, bothersome, disconcerting, distressing, disturbing, irritating, perplexing, perturbing, troublesome, troubling, unnerving, unsettling, vexing, worrying |
| Antonyms: | calming, pleasing, settling, soothing |
| Main Entry: | perplexing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | difficult to understand |
| Synonyms: | baffling, beyond one, complicated, confusing, convoluted, disconcerting, impenetrable, intricate, involved, knotty, mind-bending, mysterious, mystifying, paradoxical, puzzling, taxing, thorny, worrying |
| Main Entry: | serious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crucial, weighty |
| Synonyms: | arduous, dangerous, deep, difficult, far-reaching, fateful, fell, formidable, grave, grievous, grim, hard, heavy, important, laborious, major, meaning business, meaningful, menacing, momentous, no joke, no laughing matter, of consequence, operose, out for blood, playing hard ball, pressing, severe, significant, smoking, sobering, strenuous, strictly business, threatening, tough, ugly, unamusing, unhumorous, urgent, worrying |
| Antonyms: | light, minor, trivial, unimportant, unserious |
| Main Entry: | tense |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | under stress, pressure |
| Synonyms: | agitated, anxious, apprehensive, beside oneself, bundle of nerves, choked, clutched, concerned, edgy, excited, fidgety, fluttery, high-strung, hung up, hyper, in a tizzy, jittery, jumpy, keyed up, moved, moving, nerve-racking, nervous, nervous wreck, on edge, overanxious, overwrought, queasy, restive, restless, shaky, shot to pieces, shot*, strained, stressful, strung out, uneasy, unnerved, unquiet, up the wall, uptight*, white knuckled, wired, worried, worrying, wound up, wreck* |
| Antonyms: | calm, easy-going, laid-back, relaxed, uncaring |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | thorny |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | difficult, problematic |
| Synonyms: | awkward, baffling, bothersome, formidable, harassing, hard, irksome, nettlesome, perplexing, prickly, severe, sticky, ticklish, tough, tricky, troublesome, trying, unpleasant, upsetting, vexatious, worrying |
| Antonyms: | easy, solvable, untroublesome |
| Main Entry: | troublesome |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bothersome, worrisome |
| Synonyms: | alarming, annoying, arduous, burdensome, damaging, dangerous, demanding, difficult, disquieting, harassing, hard, heavy, importunate, inconvenient, infestive, intractable, irksome, irritating, laborious, mean, messy, murder, oppressive, painful, pesky, pestiferous, pestilential, problematic, refractory, repressive, rough, taxing, tiresome, tough, tricky, troublous, trying, ugly, ungovernable, unruly, uphill, upsetting, vexatious, vexing, wearisome, wicked, worrying |
| Antonyms: | easy, helpful, nice, useful |
| Main Entry: | vexatious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | distressing, bothersome |
| Synonyms: | afflicting, aggravating, annoying, burdensome, disagreeable, disappointing, disturbing, exasperating, irksome, irritating, mean, nagging, pesky, provoking, teasing, tormenting, troublesome, troublous, trying, ugly, unpleasant, upsetting, wicked, worrisome, worrying |
| Antonyms: | aiding, assisting, helpful, pleasing, soothing |
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