worry | Definition of worry

worry

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of worry

1 to experience concern or anxiety

they worried for days about whether the loan would be approved

Synonyms of worry

bother, fear, fret, fuss, stew, stress, sweat, trouble

Words Related to worry

long, pine, yearn

Phrases Synonymous with worry

give a hang (or care a hang), sweat blood

Near Antonyms of worry

abide, bear, endure, stick out, stomach, sustain, take, tolerate

2 to trouble the mind of; to make uneasy

those strange noises outside the house worry me

Synonyms of worry

agitate, ail, alarm (also alarum), bother, concern, derail, discomfort, discompose, dismay, disquiet, distemper, distract, distress, disturb, exercise, flurry, frazzle, freak (out), fuss, hagride, perturb, undo, unhinge, unsettle, upset, weird out

Words Related to worry

aggravate, anger, annoy, bug, chafe, chivy (or chivvy), exasperate, fret, gall, get, grate, harass, harry, irk, irritate, nettle, peeve, pester, pique, put off, put out, rile, vex

bedevil, haunt, plague

abash, confound, confuse, discomfit, disconcert, discountenance, embarrass, faze, fluster, jar, mortify, nonplus, rattle, shake up

daunt, demoralize, discourage, dishearten, dispirit, unnerve

Near Antonyms of worry

allay, alleviate, assuage

appease, conciliate, mollify, pacify, placate, propitiate

Antonyms of worry

calm, compose, quiet, settle, soothe, tranquilize (also tranquillize)