as in worrier
a person who is inclined to worry
tends to dismiss people concerned about global warming as a bunch of worrywarts
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This is my main point: AI will produce wild economic times where the worrywarts have little input in the race to keep up.
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Clem Chambers, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
But the worrywart is now overdue for yet another detour, physically and metaphorically.
—Courtney Howard, Variety, 16 Nov. 2023
Each relied on what came to be viewed as a formula: verbal banter, cultural erudition, visual elegance and, of course, the filmmaker’s own on-screen persona of a talkative worrywart.
—Peter Tonguette, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2023
Instead, the Monday-morning quarterbacks of world affairs reasoned that the whole Y2K thing was the overthinking of IT worrywarts and catastrophizing futurists.
—Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 29 May 2023
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Clem Chambers, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
But the worrywart is now overdue for yet another detour, physically and metaphorically.
—Courtney Howard, Variety, 16 Nov. 2023
Each relied on what came to be viewed as a formula: verbal banter, cultural erudition, visual elegance and, of course, the filmmaker’s own on-screen persona of a talkative worrywart.
—Peter Tonguette, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2023
Instead, the Monday-morning quarterbacks of world affairs reasoned that the whole Y2K thing was the overthinking of IT worrywarts and catastrophizing futurists.
—Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 29 May 2023
See All Example Sentences for worrywart
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“Worrywart.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/worrywart. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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