Definition of worrywart
: a person who is inclined to worry unduly
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Examples of worrywart in a Sentence
My father is a real worrywart.
tends to dismiss people concerned about global warming as a bunch of worrywarts
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The aunt of the main character, Neil Klugman, is a meddling worrywart, and the upper-middle-class relatives of Neil's girlfriend are satirized as shallow materialists.
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The aunt of the main character, Neil Klugman, is a meddling worrywart, and the upper-middle-class relatives of Neil's girlfriend are satirized as shallow materialists.
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Anybody who had predicted when Trump took office that the president’s lawyers would officially proclaim his right to start or stop any federal investigation would have been dismissed as a paranoid worrywart.
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The aunt of the main character, Neil Klugman, is a meddling worrywart, and the upper-middle-class relatives of Neil's girlfriend are satirized as shallow materialists.
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With the cash-like instruments now yielding 1.93%, their highest since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, worrywarts can once again earn at least a bit of money on the sidelines.
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The aunt of the main character, Neil Klugman, is a meddling worrywart, and the upper-middle-class relatives of Neil's girlfriend are satirized as shallow materialists.
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The aunt of the main character, Neil Klugman, is a meddling worrywart, and the upper-middle-class relatives of Neil’s girlfriend are satirized as shallow materialists.
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The aunt of the main character, Neil Klugman, is a meddling worrywart, and the upper-middle-class relatives of Neil's girlfriend are satirized as shallow materialists.
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First Known Use of worrywart
1936
WORRYWART Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of worrywart for English Language Learners
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: a person who worries too much or who worries about things that are not important
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