All worry synonyms
worΒ·ry
W w noun worry
- discomfort β an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
- nervousness β highly excitable; unnaturally or acutely uneasy or apprehensive: to become nervous under stress.
verb worry
- fret β to feel or express worry, annoyance, discontent, or the like: Fretting about the lost ring isn't going to help.
- agonise β to suffer extreme pain or anguish; be in agony.
- agonize β If you agonize over something, you feel very anxious about it and spend a long time thinking about it.
- stew β to cook (food) by simmering or slow boiling.
- fuss β an excessive display of anxious attention or activity; needless or useless bustle: They made a fuss over the new baby.
- troubled β to disturb the mental calm and contentment of; worry; distress; agitate.
- annoy β If someone or something annoys you, it makes you fairly angry and impatient.
- bother β If you do not bother to do something or if you do not bother with it, you do not do it, consider it, or use it because you think it is unnecessary or because you are too lazy.
- depress β If someone or something depresses you, they make you feel sad and disappointed.
- disturb β to interrupt the quiet, rest, peace, or order of; unsettle.
- irritate β to excite to impatience or anger; annoy.
- perturb β to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
- try β to attempt to do or accomplish: Try it before you say it's simple.
- unsettle β to alter from a settled state; cause to be no longer firmly fixed or established; render unstable; disturb: Violence unsettled the government.
- upset β to overturn: to upset a pitcher of milk.
- afflict β If you are afflicted by pain, illness, or disaster, it affects you badly and makes you suffer.
- aggrieve β to grieve; distress; afflict
- ail β If something ails a group or area of activity, it is a problem or source of trouble for that group or for people involved in that activity.
- attack β To attack a person or place means to try to hurt or damage them using physical violence.
- bedevil β If you are bedevilled by something unpleasant, it causes you a lot of problems over a period of time.
- beleaguer β to trouble persistently; harass
- beset β If someone or something is beset by problems or fears, they have many problems or fears which affect them severely.
- brood β A brood is a group of baby birds that were born at the same time to the same mother.
- bug β A bug is an insect or similar small creature.
- chafe β If your skin chafes or is chafed by something, it becomes sore as a result of something rubbing against it.
- despair β Despair is the feeling that everything is wrong and that nothing will improve.
- dun β to make repeated and insistent demands upon, especially for the payment of a debt.
- goad β a stick with a pointed or electrically charged end, for driving cattle, oxen, etc.; prod.
- harass β to disturb persistently; torment, as with troubles or cares; bother continually; pester; persecute.
- harry β to harass, annoy, or prove a nuisance to by or as if by repeated attacks; worry: He was harried by constant doubts.
- hassle β a disorderly dispute.
- hector β Classical Mythology. the eldest son of Priam and husband of Andromache: the greatest Trojan hero in the Trojan War, killed by Achilles.
- importune β to press or beset with solicitations; demand with urgency or persistence.
- needle β a small, slender, rodlike instrument, usually of polished steel, with a sharp point at one end and an eye or hole for thread at the other, for passing thread through cloth to make stitches in sewing.
- oppress β to burden with cruel or unjust impositions or restraints; subject to a burdensome or harsh exercise of authority or power: a people oppressed by totalitarianism.
- persecute β to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
- pester β to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble: Don't pester me with your trivial problems.
- tantalise β to torment with, or as if with, the sight of something desired but out of reach; tease by arousing expectations that are repeatedly disappointed.
- tantalize β to torment with, or as if with, the sight of something desired but out of reach; tease by arousing expectations that are repeatedly disappointed.
- tear β the act of tearing.
- tease β to irritate or provoke with persistent petty distractions, trifling raillery, or other annoyance, often in sport.
- test β Zoology. the hard, protective shell or covering of certain invertebrates, as echinoderms or tunicates.