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What is the adjective for worried?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs worrit and worry which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

worrisome
  1. Causing worry; perturbing or vexing.
  2. (of a person) Inclined to worry.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. distressing, disturbing, troublesome, upsetting, disquieting, unsettling, perturbing, troubling, trying, bothersome, worrying, difficult, annoying, vexatious, discomforting, irksome, discomposing, awkward, irritating, taxing, unpleasant, nagging, tricky, harassing, vexing, problematic, alarming, nasty, thorny, wearisome, dismaying, harrowing, troublous, tiresome, traumatic, hairy, niggling, burdensome, inconvenient, sticky, prickly, harrying, daunting, grave, scary, agonising, agonizing, nerve-racking, anxious-making, distressful … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “It is also worrisome that it will take 18 months to get the police force up to its required strength.”
      “To this day, I still see the look on his face in my dreams and remember those words and the worrisome look on his face.”
      “It's the potential for people to abuse this sort of thing that is worrisome.”
worried
  1. Thinking about unpleasant things that have happened or that might happen; feeling afraid and unhappy.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. anxious, troubled, upset, nervous, afraid, concerned, tense, uneasy, bothered, disquieted, distressed, disturbed, frightened, perturbed, apprehensive, distracted, distraught, fearful, fretting, unquiet, wired, antsy, fretful, on edge, overwrought, stressed, worried sick, ill at ease, quaking, scared, tormented, trembling, discomposed, flustered, hassled, insecure, restless, strung out, twitchy, under stress, uptight, worked up, anguished, disconcerted, edgy, jittery, jumpy, nervy, queasy, queazy … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “His speech addressed the things we were worried about head-on in a tone that felt honest.”
worriable
  1. (rare) Capable of becoming worried.
worrying
  1. Inducing worry.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. distressing, disturbing, upsetting, unsettling, disquieting, troublesome, worrisome, troubling, difficult, harrowing, alarming, perturbing, trying, unpleasant, grave, traumatic, bothersome, taxing, daunting, vexatious, hairy, dismaying, concerning, harassing, awkward, tormenting, scary, tricky, problematic, niggling, thorny, sticky, prickly, harrying, nerve-racking, nerve-wracking, anxious-making, grim, dire, severe, dreadful, irksome, grievous, awful, distressful, unnerving, terrible, forbidding, tough, harsh … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “There is a worrying trend among businesses to rely solely on external vendors for advice on emerging technological developments.”
      “Children of worrying parents seem to identify with the worrying parent and themselves tend to be worriers.”
      “So, how long will we continue avoiding this critical and worrying situation? We have 12-15 years to seriously limit and reverse this trend.”
worrit
  1. (dialect, nonstandard) Worried.
worrited
  1. simple past tense and past participle of worrit
worriting
  1. present participle of worrit
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