worry

worry

verb

Definition of WORRY

1

to experience concern or anxiety <they worried for days about whether the loan would be approved>

Synonyms bother, fear, fret, fuss, stew, stress, sweat, trouble

Related Words agonize; long, pine, yearn; chafe; despair

Phrases give a hang (or care a hang), sweat blood

Near Antonyms accept; abide, bear, endure, stick out, stomach, sustain, take, tolerate

2

to trouble the mind of; to make uneasy <those strange noises outside the house worry me>

Synonyms agitate, ail, alarm (also alarum), bother, concern, derail, discomfort, discompose, dismay, disquiet, distemper, distract, distress, exercise, flurry, frazzle, freak (out), fuss, hagride, perturb, undo, unhinge, unsettle, upset, weird out, worry

Related Words aggravate, anger, annoy, bug, chafe, chivy (or chivvy), exasperate, fret, gall, get, grate, harass, harry, irk, irritate, nettle, peeve, pester, pique, put off, put out, rile, vex; bedevil, haunt, plague; abash, confound, confuse, discomfit, disconcert, discountenance, embarrass, faze, fluster, jar, mortify, nonplus, rattle, shake up; daunt, demoralize, discourage, dishearten, dispirit, unnerve

Near Antonyms allay, alleviate, assuage; appease, conciliate, mollify, pacify, placate, propitiate

Antonyms calm, compose, quiet, settle, soothe, tranquilize (also tranquillize)