What is "worried" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does worried mean in English? Meaning of worried definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "worried" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "worried": afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief

Adjective

  • Meaning: afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief
  • Example: too upset to say anything spent many disquieted moments distressed about her son's leaving home lapsed into disturbed sleep worried parents a worried frown one last worried check of the sleeping children
  • Synonyms: disquieted distressed disturbed upset worried
  • Similar: troubled
  • Meaning of "worried": mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc

    Adjective

  • Meaning: mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc
  • Example: apprehensive about her job not used to a city and worried about small things felt apprehensive about the consequences
  • Synonyms: apprehensive worried
  • Similar: uneasy
  • Adjective: Thinking about unpleasant things that have happened or that might happen; feeling afraid and unhappy. She was worried about her son who had been sent off to fight in the war.
  • Synonyms:

    perturbed, distressed, concerned, distracted, upset, bothered, disturbed, tense, frightened, afraid, apprehensive, beside oneself, distraught, fearful, fretful, hung up, ill at ease, nervous, on edge, overwrought, solicitous, uneasy, uptight, tormented, clutched, on pins and needles, worried stiff,

    Antonyms:

    untroubled, uncaring, calm, comforted, happy, undisturbed, unworried, relaxed,

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    worried in English: worried
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