Thesaurus

care, concern, solicitude, anxiety, worry mean a troubled or engrossed state of mind or the thing that causes this. care implies oppression of the mind weighed down by responsibility or disquieted by apprehension.

- a face worn by years of care

concern implies a troubled state of mind because of personal interest, relation, or affection.

- crimes caused concern in the neighborhood

solicitude implies great concern and connotes either thoughtful or hovering attentiveness toward another.

- acted with typical maternal solicitude

anxiety stresses anguished uncertainty or fear of misfortune or failure.

- plagued by anxiety and self-doubt

worry suggests fretting over matters that may or may not be real cause for anxiety.

- financial worries

worry

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of worry

1 to experience concern or anxiety

they worried for days about whether the loan would be approved

Synonyms of worry

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

Words Related to worry

agonize

long, pine, yearn

chafe

despair

Phrases Synonymous with worry

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

Near Antonyms of worry

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 of worry

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

Words Related to worry

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 of worry

allay, alleviate, assuage

appease, conciliate, mollify, pacify, placate, propitiate

Antonyms of worry

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

Synonym Discussion of worry

worry, annoy, harass, harry, plague, pester, tease mean to disturb or irritate by persistent acts. worry implies an incessant goading or attacking that drives one to desperation.