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Worrisome   /wˈərisəm/   Listen
Worrisome

adjective
1.
Not reassuring; tending to cause anxiety.  Synonym: unreassuring.
2.
Causing distress or worry or anxiety.  Synonyms: distressful, distressing, disturbing, perturbing, troubling, worrying.  "Lived in heroic if something distressful isolation" , "A disturbing amount of crime" , "A revelation that was most perturbing" , "A new and troubling thought" , "In a particularly worrisome predicament" , "A worrying situation" , "A worrying time"






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"Worrisome" Quotes from Famous Books



... night and a worrisome forenoon the doctor told me that father was himself again and wanted to see me at once. "I've said all I can against it," said the doctor. "I don't know what sort of rumpus you two had yesterday, but it came dangerously near being the finish for him. And it must not be repeated; I'm ...
— Mary-'Gusta • Joseph C. Lincoln

... to burden Martha with her vexations. Martha had troubles of her own. Moreover, those that were most worrisome to Claire, Martha, in the very nature ...
— Martha By-the-Day • Julie M. Lippmann

... my joy. I suppose everybody's baby is the sweetest, and I must forbear and let every mother think how we cared for and tended the little one, and how our heartstrings all vibrated at the touch of her little hand, and if she was ill or worrisome, which she was earthly enough to be, we were all robbed of our comfort ...
— The Harvest of Years • Martha Lewis Beckwith Ewell



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