Worrisome

/ˈwʌɹisəm/ · adjective

Meaning

Causing worry; perturbing or vexing..

Definitions by Sense

1. Causing worry; perturbing or vexing.
2. (of a person) Inclined to worry.

Example Sentences

He ’s got a cow, too; she ’s got the worrisomest horns ever was. I believe she ’s a steer anyway.

OUR “WORRISOMEST” WEEDS / Johnson grass and Bermuda grass will be growing fast by late May.

“[…] Just supposing Emily poisoned him, why would she have done it? What could she have against a four-year-old?” / Star sighed. “Mr. Hacey, you do ask me the worrisomest questions. How I know why somebody who maybe didn’t even poison somebody come to poison that somebody?”

“Doesn't everyone call his doctor every week or two for reassurance about some worrisome symptom?”

“How can you be sure you won’t change your mind?” / For god’s sake, can’t he take a hint? / Maybe you’re not convincing enough? Because … you don’t want to be? / “Because I’m actively working on not changing my mind,” I say in order to drown out my evil inner voices. / “What if I’m actively working on swaying it?” / “Ugh! Stop it,” I say, but I can’t help but laugh. God, I think I like arguing with him. That’s very worrisome. Very, very worrisome. / It gets worrisomer when he leans towards me and asks very quietly and calmly, “Why?”

There's more to The Morning Joe/Donald Trump spat than was apparent when the U.S. president launched his Twitter attack at the show's hosts on Thursday. New details add context to the story that make it both curiouser and curiouser and muckier and muckier — not to mention worrisomer.

I use to would perform that song when I was singin in Chance’s band. We had a real sweet, dreamy, Dinah Washington-kinda arrangement of it that’d make even the worrisomest drunk pipe down and listen.

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• more worrisome
• worrisomer
• most worrisome
• worrisomest

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