WORRYING Synonyms

• causing or tending to cause anger or resentment

• frightening because of an awareness of danger

• eagerly desirous

• causing or fraught with or showing anxiety

• causing irritation or annoyance

• causing mental discomfort

• causing distress or worry or anxiety

• bad; unfortunate

• causing distress or worry or anxiety

• extremely painful

• extremely irritating to the nerves

• causing distress or worry or anxiety

• causing distress or worry or anxiety

• extremely annoying or displeasing

• causing irritation or annoyance

• something that interests you because it is important or affects you

• an anxious feeling

• a feeling of sympathy for someone or something

• something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness

• a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it

• be relevant to

• be on the mind of

• the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch)

• (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense

• special emphasis attached to something

• difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension

• (physics) force that produces strain on a physical body

• to stress, single out as important

• put stress on; utter with an accent

• test the limits of

• to suffer from stress

• unbearable physical pain

• extreme mental distress

• intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain

• a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented

• a severe affliction

• the act of harassing someone

• torment emotionally or mentally

• treat cruelly

• subject to torture

• disturb the composure of

• something that interests you because it is important or affects you

• an anxious feeling

• a feeling of sympathy for someone or something

• something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness

• a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it

• be relevant to

• be on the mind of

• the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something

• judiciousness in avoiding harm or danger

• an anxious feeling

• a cause for feeling concern

• attention and management implying responsibility for safety

• activity involved in maintaining something in good working order

• feel concern or interest

• provide care for

• to hope, to desire or to prefer to have something, or to do something

• be in charge of, act on, or dispose of

• be concerned with

• agitation resulting from active worry

• a spot that has been worn away by abrasion or erosion

• an ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines (often in relief)

• a small bar of metal across the fingerboard of a musical instrument; when the string is stopped by a finger at the metal bar it will produce a note of the desired pitch

• worry unnecessarily or excessively

• be agitated or irritated

• provide (a musical instrument) with frets

• become or make sore by or as if by rubbing

• cause annoyance in

• gnaw into; make resentful or angry

• carve a pattern into

• decorate with an interlaced design

• be too tight; rub or press

• cause friction

• remove soil or rock

• wear away or erode

• something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness

• pain in the head caused by dilation of cerebral arteries or muscle contractions or a reaction to drugs