Synonyms of worrying

worrying

verb

present participle of worry

1

as in fretting

to experience concern or anxiety

they worried for days about whether the loan would be approved

Synonyms & Similar Words

• fretting
• stressing
• fearing
• sweating
• fussing
• troubling
• bothering
• stewing
• agonizing
• caring a hang
• giving a hang
• sweating blood
• longing
• yearning
• pining
• despairing
• chafing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• accepting
• taking
• tolerating
• sustaining
• enduring
• bearing
• abiding
• sticking out
• stomaching

2

as in bothering

to trouble the mind of; to make uneasy

those strange noises outside the house worry me

Synonyms & Similar Words

• bothering
• alarming
• disturbing
• distracting
• concerning
• unsettling
• upsetting
• distressing
• angering
• agitating
• annoying
• haunting
• plaguing
• disquieting
• dismaying
• discomforting
• irritating
• perturbing
• fussing
• confusing
• undoing
• exercising
• embarrassing
• ailing
• bugging
• derailing
• rattling
• flurrying
• unhinging
• discomposing
• frazzling
• freaking (out)
• distempering
• aggravating
• exasperating
• fretting
• discouraging
• alaruming
• irking
• harassing
• hagriding
• vexing
• chivvying
• weirding out
• pestering
• disconcerting
• harrying
• galling
• nettling
• chafing
• flustering
• riling
• chivying
• getting
• grating
• discomfiting
• peeving
• mortifying
• bedeviling
• unnerving
• putting off
• piquing
• jarring
• putting out
• confounding
• disheartening
• daunting
• discountenancing
• fazing
• demoralizing
• abashing
• dispiriting
• shaking up
• nonplussing
• nonplusing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• composing
• settling
• calming
• soothing
• quieting
• alleviating
• tranquilizing
• allaying
• assuaging
• tranquillizing
• appeasing
• placating
• pacifying
• mollifying
• conciliating
• propitiating