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Definitions: Worrying |
WorryingAdjective1. 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". Noun1. The act of harassing someone. 2. The act of moving something by repeated tugs or pushes; "vigorous worrying finally loosened the saw". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "worrying" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1599. (references) |
Synonyms: WorryingSynonyms: distressful (adj), distressing (adj), disturbing (adj), perturbing (adj), troubling (adj), worrisome (adj), badgering (n), bedevilment (n), torment (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Pain | Importunate; teasing, pestering, bothering, harassing, worrying, tormenting, carking. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Worrying |
| English words defined with "worrying": Carking, concern ♦ distressful, distressing, disturbing ♦ impish, implike, interest ♦ mischievous ♦ occupy ♦ perturbing, pixilated, prankish, puckish ♦ troubling ♦ without worrying, worrisome, worry. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "worrying": Cancer ♦ data warehouse ♦ Fever ♦ Island ♦ Traveling ♦ vector graphics ♦ work-efficient. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I like worrying about you. (Superman II; writing credit: Jerry Siegel; Joe Shuster) Worrying is like a rocking chair. (Van Wilder; writing credit: Brent Goldberg; David Wagner) Well, no sense in worrying about it now. (Ghost Busters; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd; Harold Ramis) I gotta get the family farm back before I start worrying about that. (O Brother, Where Art Thou?; writing credit: Ethan Coen) Flounder, you can't spend your whole life worrying about your mistakes! (Animal House; writing credit: Harold Ramis; Douglas Kenney) | |
Lyrics | And worrying about the past (HELP ME; performing artist: Joni Mitchell) LOSING LOVE WORRYING ABOUT MY IMAGE (If It Isn't Love; performing artist: New Edition) You know she not gonna be worrying bout things from the past (It Wasn't Me; performing artist: Shaggy) Instead of worrying 'bout me (He Wasn't Man Enough; performing artist: Toni Braxton) | |
Clever | There is no future in spending the present worrying about the past. (references; author: unknown) A budget is just a method of worrying before you spend money, as well as afterward. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Worrying the bull. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Ovid | Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all. |
Thomas A. Edison | As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Some have used client-directed care as a code phrase for some form of voucher, which would limit the government's responsibility for paying for care. However, even proponents have not made clear just how the government could limit its responsibility short of contracting all care to private providers who would assume full risk. Many fear the consequences of such action, worrying that substantial underservice would result. (references) | |
Economic History | Portugal | Although the boom brought benefits, there were a few worrying signs: an inflation rate (CPI) slightly above the EU average and a growing current account balance. (references) |
Human Rights | Japan | Prison officials claimed that the "no complaining" policy was designed to keep family members from worrying about their relatives. (references) |
Political Economy | Ireland | The most serious problem facing the generally excellent Irish economic outlook is a worrying spike of inflation, which shot up rapidly in late 1999 and is running at just over five percent for the first half of 2001. Irish economists and government officials are mixed on whether the spike is a short-term reaction to external factors, or whether it signals the start of a longer trend that will significantly slow down the Irish economy. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Gene Wilder | I'm funny on camera sometimes. In life, once in a while. Once in a while. But she was funny. She spent more time worrying about being liked than anything else. |
Lisa French | I was excited during the boys' trial to hear a lot of the things that I'd been worrying about brought out by the boys' attorneys. |
Rush Limbaugh | Folks, while the President and Vice President are worrying about protecting us from another terrorist attack, the Democrats and the media are worried about playing politics. |
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Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | But I believe we must also provide child care so that mothers who are required to go to work can do so without worrying about what is happening to their children. |
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| "Worrying" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 70.81% of the time. "Worrying" is used about 907 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 70.81% | 642 | 10,154 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 28.63% | 260 | 18,316 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.44% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.11% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 907 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "worrying": stop worrying ♦ without worrying. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "worrying": all-worrying, sheep-worrying. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
stop worrying | 22 |
worrying | 20 |
dr strangelove or how i learned to stop worrying and love the bomb | 11 |
stop worrying and start living | 6 |
quote worrying | 4 |
excessive worrying | 4 |
50 b going may over retire worrying | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "worrying"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مقلق (bothering, disconcerting, disquieting, distressful, distressing, disturbing, perturbing, troublesome, troubling, upsetting, worrisome). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 担心 (suspense, Worried, Worries). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | mikä häntä painaa? (what is on her mind? what is worrying her?). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | préoccupant, inquiétant (worrisome). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | beunruhigend (alarming, disconcerting, disquieting, disturbing, fazing, flurrying, harassing, perturbing, perturbingly, uncomfortable, uneasy, unsettling), besorgniserregend (alarming). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | mi bajod? (what's worrying you?), gyötrő időszakot él át (have a worrying time). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | khawatir (apprehensive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | preoccupante (alarming, carking, worrisome), molesto (annoying, niggling, troublesome), inquietante (alarming, disquieting, disturbing, harassing, unsettling, worryingly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 憂世 (fleeting life, sad world, this transient world, worrying about world conditions), 悶悶 (anguishedly, worrying endlessly), 悶々 (anguishedly, worrying endlessly), 介意 (caring about, worrying about), 心配性 (prone to worrying), 主思い (one who so worries, worrying about one's master's affairs). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しゅうおもい (one who so worries, worrying about one's master's affairs), し"ぱいしょう (prone to worrying), かいい (brawny, caring about, gigantic, impressive, kanji made up of meaningful parts, muscular, strangeness, worrying about), ゆうせい (dominance, eugenic, living a quiet life in seclusion away from the masses, male characteristics, manliness, planet, postal system, predominance, preponderance, sexual, superior power, superiority, vocal, voiced, wandering star, worrying about world conditions), も"も" (anguishedly, worrying endlessly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 민 (Distress). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | boiragh (bothersome, puzzling, uncomfortable, vociferous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | orryingway sâcâitor (annoying, busy, dragging, fussy, naggy, pestering, trying). (various references) волнующий (alarming, disturbing, dramatic, emotional, emotive, moving, thrilling). (various references) koji zabrinjava (worrisome), koji uznemiruje. (various references) plågsam (agonizing, painful, racking, torturous, troublesome). (various references) rahatsız edici (annoying, besetting, disturbing, fraught, haunting, hot, inconvenient, irritant, irritating, noisy, pesky, plaguesome, rough, strident, uncomfortable, uneasy, unrestful), endişe verici (disquieting, fraught, frowning, threatening, uneasy, worrisome), can sıkıcı (aggravating, annoying, boring, bothersome, chippy, disagreeable, displeasing, embarrassing, painful, provoking, soul-destroying, soulless, sullen, tedious, unexeciting, vexatious, worrisome), üzücü (afflictive, devouring, distressful, distressing, dolorous, grievous, harrowing, heartbreaking, heavy, painful, regrettable, rueful, sad, sorrowful, trying, vexatious, vexing, woeful, worrisome). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words ending with "worrying": beworrying. (additional references) | |
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"Worrying" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: worryiong. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "worrying" (pronounced wer"ēing) |
| 4 | -er" ē i ng | currying, hurrying, scurrying. |
| 3 | -ē i ng | accompanying, bullying, burying, carrying, copying, cozying, dairying, dizzying, embodying, emptying, ferrying, jockeying, jollying, journeying, levying, lobbying, marrying, monkeying, muddying, partying, photocopying, pitying, quarrying, rallying, readying, remarrying, remedying, studying, tallying, taxiing, varying, wearying. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-n-o-r-r-w-y" | |
-2 letters: rowing, wrying, yowing. | |
-3 letters: giron, groin, grown, gyron, irony, owing, rigor, wingy, worry, wring, wrong, yogin. | |
-4 letters: girn, giro, gory, gown, grin, grow, gyri, gyro, inro, iron, noir, nori, orgy, ring, wing, wino, winy, wiry, worn, yirr, yogi, yoni. | |
-5 letters: gin, gor, goy, ion, nog, nor, now, own, rig, rin, row, wig, win, wog. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-n-o-r-r-w-y" | |
+2 letters: beworrying. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 6F 72 72 79 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. --- .-. .-. -.--. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010111 01101111 01110010 01110010 01111001 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)W o r r y i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0057 006F 0072 0072 0079 0069 006E 0067 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5781848491758073 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Arabic | معجم, قاموس, الوضوحية في الشيء, حد, تحديد, تعريف, التحديد, الإيضاحية, ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ترجمة, إفتتان | العربية, عربي, اللغة العربية, 阿拉伯 , arabialainen, arabe, arabisch, arab, arabo, 아라비아, Arabish, arabic, арабский, arapski, arabisk, arapça, arap, araplara özgü |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | الصينية, لغة الصين, صيني, الصيني أحد أبناء الصين, 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , kiinalainen, Chinois, Chinesisch, kínai, cinese, チフス菌 , チャイニーズ , 중국, Sheenish, Sheenagh, chinezesc, chinezeşte, chinezã, chinez, китайский, китаец, kineski jezik, kineski, kinesisk, çinli, çince, çin ile ilgili, çin |
Finnish | määritelmä, translaatio, taajuusmuutos | اللغة الفنلندية, فنلندية, فنلندي, 芬蘭語 , 芬兰语, suomi, suomalainen, finnois, Finlandaise, finlandais, finnisch, finn, finlandese, 핀란", Fynlannish, Fynlannagh, finlandezã, финский, finski jezik, finski, finsk, fince, finlandiya'ya özgü |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | اللغة الفرنسية, فرنسي, الشعب الفرنسي, 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, ranskalainen, français, französisch, francia, francese, フレコン化 , 仏文 , フランス" , 仏 , ふつぶ", ふつ, フレンチ , フランセ , "랑스, Ny Frangee, Mooinjey ny Frank, francezii, franţuzesc, francezã, francez, franţuzeşte, французский, francuski jezik, francuski, francuzi, fransk, franska, fransızca, fransız, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransa ile ilgili |
German | wörterbuch, Übersetzung | ضرب من الرقص, جرماني, الماني, اللغة الألمانية, المانية, 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , saksalainen, allemand, deutsch, Deutsche, német, tedesco, ジプシー音楽 , ジャーマン , 독일, Germaanish, Germaanagh, Garmane, Carmane, neamţ, немецкий, germanski, tysk, alman |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | مجري, المجري, الهنغاري, هنغاري, اللغة الهنغارية, 匈牙利语, 匈牙利語 , unkarilainen, hongrois, Ungar, magyar, ungherese, 헝가리, Ungaarish, Ungaaragh, unguresc, limba ungarã, limba maghiarã, ungureşte, ungur, maghiar, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, ungrare, macarca, macar |
Indonesian | الماليزي أحد أبناء ماليزيا, اللغة الأندونيسية, 印度尼西亞語 , 印度尼西亚语, indonesialainen, indonésien, Indonesier, indonéz, indonesiano, インドネシア語 , インドネシア", 인도네시아, Indoneesagh, индонезийский, индонезиец, indonezijski, indonežanin, endonezya'ya ait, endonezyalı, endonezya dili, endonezya | |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | الإيطالي, اللغة الإيطالية, إيطالي, شخص إيطالي, 意大利 , 意大利語 , 意大利语, italialainen, italien, italienisch, olasz, italiano, 이탈리아, Iddaalish, italienesc, italieneşte, italian, italianã, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский, italijan, italijanski jezik, italijanski, italiensk, italienska, italienare, italyanca, italyan |
Japanese Kanji | 辭典 , 辞典 , 字引 , 辞林 , 字書 , ディーゼル電気車 , 言海 , 辞彙 , 辞書 , 確定 , ディーゼル電気車 , デ'ドロ酢酸 , 翻訳 | يابانية, ياباني, اليابانية, اللغة اليابانية, 日語 , 日语, 日本 , 日文 , 倭 , japanilainen, Japonais, japaner, japanisch, japán, giapponese, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", 일본, Shapaanagh, Shapaanish, japonezã, японский, японец, japanski, japanski jezik, japanac, japansk, Japonca |
Japanese Katakana | じい, じびき, じて", ディクショナリー , じり", じしょ, '"かい, ディクショナリ , デフィニション , ディフィニション , ていぎ, かくてい, へい"ういどう, やくじゅつ, トランスレーション , やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, ほ"やくしょ | يابانية, ياباني, اليابانية, اللغة اليابانية, 日語 , 日语, 日本 , 日文 , 倭 , japanilainen, Japonais, japaner, japanisch, japán, giapponese, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", 일본, Shapaanagh, Shapaanish, japonezã, японский, японец, japanski, japanski jezik, japanac, japansk, Japonca |
Korean | 사 , 의, 번역 | اللغة الكورية, كوري جنوبي, كوري شمالي, كوري, 韩国语, "國 , 朝鮮語 , coréen, koreanisch, Koreaner, koreai, 한국, limba coreeanã, coreean, кореец, корейский, korejski, korejski jezik, koreanac, koreansk, kore'li |
Manx | fockleyr, geyrid, meenaghey, keeayllaght, baght | manx, mann-szigeti nyelv, Manninish, Manninagh, Gaelgagh, Yn Ghaelg, язык жителей о-ва мэн, с о-ва мэн, s ostrva mana, från ön man, man adası, man dili |
Romanian | dicţionar, definiţie, determinare, definire, translaţie, traducere, tãlmãcire | 罗马尼亚语, romanialainen, Roumain, rumäne, román, rumeno, 루마니아, Roomainagh, român, румынский, румын, rumunski jezik, rumunski, rumänsk |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | روسي, اللغة الروسية, الروسية, 俄語 , 俄文 , 俄语, venäläinen, Russe, russisch, orosz, russo, ロシア語 , ロシア", 러시아, Rooshish, Rooshagh, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ryss, Rusça |
Serbo-Croatian | leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenje | 塞"维亚-克罗地亚语, 塞爾維亞克羅地亞語 , serbokroatisch, 세르보크로아티아, sârbo-croat, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski, serbokroatiska, serbokroatisk |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, definition, översättning | اللغة السويدية, 瑞典語 , 瑞典语, ruotsalainen, suédois, schwedisch, svéd, svedese, スウェーデン語 , スウェーデン", 스웨덴, Soolynish, Soolynagh, шведский, švedski jezik, švedski, svensk, isveççe, isveç dili, isveç, Ísveçlí |
Turkish | sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme | تركي أحد أبناء تركيا, اللغة التركية, 土耳其語 , 土耳其, turkkilainen, turque, türkisch, török, Yn Turkish, Turkagh, turcesc, turc, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turkisk, türkçe, türk |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | الإنجليزية, الأنكليزي, إنكليزي, ترجمة إنكليزية, اللغة الإنكليزية, 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , englantia, englantilainen, anglais, englisch, angol, inglese, 영국, Sostynagh, Sostnagh, Baarlagh, englezesc, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, engelsk, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce |
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