Worrisome

Word WORRISOME
Character 9
Hyphenation wor ri some
Pronunciations /ˈwʌɹisəm/

Definitions and meanings of "Worrisome"

What do we mean by worrisome?

Causing worry or anxiety. adjective

Tending to worry; anxious. adjective

Causing worry or annoyance; troublesome.

Inclined to worry or fret; also, causing worry or annoyance. adjective

Causing worry; perturbing or vexing. adjective

Said of a person: inclined to worry. adjective

Not reassuring; tending to cause anxiety adjective

Causing distress or worry or anxiety adjective

Causing worry; perturbing or vexing.

(of a person) Inclined to worry.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Worrisome

The word "worrisome" in example sentences

Sherzad stood at the screen door, his expression worrisome. ❋ AMJED QAMAR (2008)

Read his report on what he calls a worrisome complacency. ❋ Unknown (2012)

In late 2009, Jakobsen went to Norway's Police Security Service and began providing information on Davud's activities after what he described as a worrisome change in the ❋ Unknown (2010)

Human Rights Watch has cited what it calls a worrisome sign of targeting people based on their ethnicity in Guinea. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It is part of what he calls a worrisome decline in the offerings of music education in general. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But most worrisome is that a whopping 60 percent of all college graduates are women. ❋ Wendy Sachs (2010)

RALPH PETERS: [M] ost worrisome is the public declaration that, if the US suffers a biological, chemical or massive cyber attack, we will not respond with nukes. ❋ Unknown (2010)

What makes this flu particularly worrisome is that the deaths involved young people, and not those from vulnerable demographics. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The thing I find worrisome is the idea of using reactors which are close to submarine powerplants as commercial items. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But worrisome is when the integrity of the scientific method is compromised for “the larger goal of true public understanding of science.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

[W] hat's really worrisome is these claims of high principle and due process are nothing more than a smokescreen aimed at masking the more substantive issues that are at work here: an overwhelming hostility to Israel, a correspondingly hypertrophied sympathy for the Palestinian cause, and a broader sense that it is all somehow the fault of George W. Bush and his misguided war on terror. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Rinehart added that the company will immediately reduce the operating pressure in worrisome lines until it completes repairs. ❋ Abrahm Lustgarten (2010)

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