Worrying

Quick meaning: Worrying is an adjective meaning Inducing worry.

Meaning

Inducing worry.

More Meanings

1. present participle and gerund of worry
2. The act of worrying or harassing somebody.

Example Sentences

Moldova did give England's under-employed keeper Joe Hart a worrying moment when Igor Armas sent a free header wide but otherwise it was an easy night.

There is a snaky gleam in her hard grey eye, as of anticipated rounds of buttered toast, relays of hot chops, worryings and quellings of young children, sharp snappings at poor Berry, and all the other delights of her Ogress's castle.

Redundancies accounted for a smaller proportion of the change, although no less significant to those affected. Rail News, BR's staff magazine, included a coda to its August 1964 assessment of the Beeching cuts: "For the individuals involved it is a worrying time [...] Rail News feels deeply for those affected and expresses the sympathy of its readers with them."

Word Forms

• worryings

Synonyms for worrying

Depending on context, synonyms include disquieting, heavy, torment, perturbing, disturbing, bedevilment.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include worrisome, troubling, distressful, distressing, bedevilment, disturbing.

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