Worrisome

Definition: Worrisome

Worrisome

Adjective

1. Not reassuring; tending to cause anxiety.

2. Causing distress or worry or anxiety; "distressing (or disturbing) news"; "lived in heroic if something distressful isolation"; "a disturbing amount of crime"; "a revelation that was most perturbing"; "a new and troubling thought"; "in a particularly worrisome predicament"; "a worrying situation"; "a worrying time".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Worrisome

Crosswords: Worrisome

Books

• The Worrisome Wombat (Voyages) (reference)

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Business

First, the age demographics of the country suggest that a younger population, not scarred by the risks of saving in the past and the just as worrisome poor performance of the insurance industry before 1990, will be ready to invest in a wide range of life insurance products. (references)

With regard to sales prospects, the age demographics of the country suggest that the sizable younger population, not scarred by the risks of saving in the past and the just as worrisome poor performance of the insurance industry before 1990, will be ready to invest in a wide range of life insurance products. (references)

Economic History

Zimbabwe

Corruption within the regulatory system is increasingly worrisome. (references)

Sri Lanka

Lower tea prices and higher inflation are also worrisome for sound export growth. (references)

Lebanon

It placed all ratings on "creditwatch" due to worrisome levels of fiscal deficit and public debt. (references)

Political Economy

INDONESIA

So far these efforts have had limited success but the trend is worrisome. (references)

VENEZUELA

While much of President Chavez's legislation is positive, his frequent verbal attacks on U.S. "economic hegemony" and the worrisome hydrocarbon law may worsen the domestic economic situation and cause some hesitation in foreign companies looking to invest in Venezuela. (references)

Trade

Indonesia

So far, these efforts have had limited success but the trend is worrisome. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Albanian

shqetësues (anxious, disorderly, disquieting, disturbing, hairy, perturbing, pesky, pestilent, plaguy, vexatious), njeri që merakoset shpejt (worrier). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مقلق (bothering, disconcerting, disquieting, distressful, distressing, disturbing, perturbing, troublesome, troubling, upsetting, worrying), ‏مزعج (aggravating, annoying, bore, bothering, bothersome, disagreeable, disquieting, disturber, disturbing, galling, grating, harsh, horrid, importunate, importune, intruder, irksome, irritating, mean, mischievous, offensive, pain in the neck, pestilential, plaguy, provoking, terrible, tiresome, troubled, troublesome, ugly, uncomfortable, unpleasant, upsetting, vexatious, vexing, wicked), ‏نزاع إلى القلق. (various references)

Bulgarian 

тревожен (alarming, disquieting, troublous, uneasy, unrestful), обезпокоителен (alarming, disquieting, disturbing, startling, troublesome, uncanny), причиняващ тревога. (various references)

French

suant, inquiétant (worrying). (various references)

German

lästig (aggravating, annoying, bothersome, burdensome, burdensomely, cumbrous, importunate, importunately, incommodious, incommodiously, inconvenient, inconveniently, irksome, irritating, maddening, onerous, onerously, tiresome, troublesome, undesirable, vexatious, vexing). (various references)

Greek 

ενοχλητικόσ (annoying, bothersome, importunate, meddlesome, obtrusive, offensive, pesky, plaguy, troublesome, troublous, vexatious), ανήσυχοσ (anxious, concerned, fidgety, restive, restless, squirmy, uneasy, unquiet, worried). (various references)

Hebrew 

מ�"אי�' (troublesome). (various references)

Hungarian

aggasztó (alarming, disquieting, distressing, troublesome). (various references)

Italian

preoccupante (alarming, carking, worrying), noioso (annoying, boring, dull, humdrum, onerous, pesky, prosy, slow, stodgy, tame, tedious, tiresome, troublesome, workaday). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

しら�'切る (anchor, annoying persistence, be tired, bothersome, croaker, heart-to-heart, intestine, sad, serious, solemn, sound of heavy snow-fall, tiresome, to be deadly silent, to be silent, to brazen it out, to feign ignorance, to play innocent, to pretend to be ignorant of). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

し�"どい (be tired, bothersome, tiresome). (various references)

Pig Latin

orrisomeway.(various references)

Portuguese

incómodo (ailment, annoyance, annoying, awkward, bumbling, cumbersome, cumbrous, discomfort, dreadful, intrusive, left-handed, meddler, muff, nagging, nuisance, pesky, plaguesome, ragtime, rush, shrill, thorn, tiresome, trouble, troublesome, uncomfortable, unhandy, untoward, unwelcome, vexatious, vexing), importuno (annoyer, importunate, inconvenient, intrusive, meddler, obtrusive, officious, pester, pestiferous, plaguesome, plaguy, rush, unwelcome), aborrecido (annoyed, beastly, boring, bothersome, damnable, disgusted, drab, dreary, dull, dullish, grouchy, horrid, irksome, jaded, meddler, morose, mumpish, outworn, pernickety, pesky, prose, provoking, soporific, stodgy, sulky, tedious, tired, tiresome, tiring, troublesome, unpleasant, vexed, vexing, wearisome, weary, worn-out, worried). (various references)

Russian 

беспокойный (antsy, bothersome, disquiet, disquieting, fidgety, impatient, obstreperous, restive, restless, troublesome, troublous, uneasy, vexatious, worrier, worrywart). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zabrinut (anxious, concerned, preoccupied, solicitous, uneasy, worried), koji zabrinjava (worrying). (various references)

Spanish

inquietante (disquieting, perturbing, ugly). (various references)

Swedish

irriterande (annoying, excruciating, irksome, irritant, irritants, irritating, irritative, maddening, nettlesome, pestilent, pestilential, plaguey, plaguy, sickening, vexatious). (various references)

Turkish

rahatsız (ailing, bad, comfortless, constrained, diseased, disturbed, ill, in bad health, incommodious, indisposed, out of sorts, poorly, queer, seedy, sick, troubled, uncomfortable, uneasy, unrestful, unwell), merakta bırakan, kaygılandıran, huzursuz (anxious, ill at ease, on pins and needles, out of sorts, peaceless, restive, restless, sleepless, tremulous, uneasy, unrestful, unsettled), endişe verici (disquieting, fraught, frowning, threatening, uneasy, worrying), can sıkıcı (aggravating, annoying, boring, bothersome, chippy, disagreeable, displeasing, embarrassing, painful, provoking, soul-destroying, soulless, sullen, tedious, unexeciting, vexatious, worrying), üzücü (afflictive, devouring, distressful, distressing, dolorous, grievous, harrowing, heartbreaking, heavy, painful, regrettable, rueful, sad, sorrowful, trying, vexatious, vexing, woeful, worrying). (various references)

Turkmen 

gaяgyly (sad). (various references)

Ukrainian

стривожений (anxious, disturbed, harassed, solicitous, upset, uptight, vexed), турботний (fractious), неспокійний (anxious, bothersome, choppy, disquiet, incommodious, nervous, obstreperous, old womanish, qualmish, restive, troubled, troublous, tumultuous, uneasy, unquiet, unsettled, vexatious), набридливий (annoying, bothersome, nagging, pesky, pestilent, wearisome, weary), помисливий (valetudinarian). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "worrisome": worrisomely, worrisomeness, worrisomenesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Worrisome" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: horigome, Torrizone, worrysome. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: moorier, morrows, roomers, roomier, roomies, wormers, wormier, worries.

-3 letters: isomer, moires, morose, morris, morros, morrow, mowers, ormers, rimers, rimose, romeos, roomer, roomie, rooser, rosier, rowers, sorrow, wirers, wooers, wormer, worser.

-4 letters: emirs, meows, mires, miser, moire, moors, moose, mores, morro, morse, mower, omers, oorie, ormer, orris, osier, resow, rimer, rimes, riser, romeo, rooms.

+2 letters: worrisomely.

+4 letters: worrisomeness.