adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an anxious/troubled/worried expression
▪ She stood looking at me with an anxious expression.
desperately unhappy/lonely/worried etc
seriously worried
▪ Hazel was now seriously worried.
unduly worried/concerned/anxious etc
▪ She doesn’t seem unduly concerned about her exams.
worried/anxious
▪ My father watched us go with a worried face.
worried/concerned/anxious etc lest ...
▪ He paused, afraid lest he say too much.
▪ She worried lest he should tell someone what had happened.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
▪ I didn't blame him, and I didn't doubt that he was also worried about me.
▪ The trust is also worried that it took six weeks for the emergency stop-order to progress through the Whitehall's bureaucracy.
▪ She was also worried about having to manage the farm by herself again.
▪ He was also worried in case that fat little manager came round to check up on him.
▪ Noreen was also worried about having Maria up so late - she was after all, just turned eleven.
▪ People are also worried about the general effect of the new station on their community.
▪ National Rivers Authority was also worried because once the section is designated its legal protection would make flood maintenance work difficult.
▪ People were also worried that electro-magnetic fields could destroy the body's resistance to infection.
desperately
▪ Your parents are desperately worried, and no wonder.
▪ Derek returned home a desperately worried person.
▪ All this time I was desperately worried about my family.
▪ The lawyer was desperately worried about his friend Doctor Jekyll.
▪ She felt insecure, unsure of the future and desperately worried about Steve and Maria Luisa.
▪ Citizens in inner-city areas are desperately worried and rightly so, about street crime.
▪ Male speaker I am desperately worried that the aid won't get tothe people it's meant for.
how
▪ He wasn't sure just how worried he ought to be by Therese Aschmann.
▪ She wasn't at all good at concealing how worried she was for his safety.
increasingly
▪ Social-security ministers, increasingly worried about the growth in single motherhood, find it hard to know what to do about it.
▪ Val was becoming increasingly worried by the spate of vicious attacks on horses.
▪ From the shelter of Tiger Haven, Billy became increasingly worried about the fate of the cubs.
▪ Read in studio Police are growing increasingly worried about a mentally handicapped man who's been missing for three days.
▪ He's nervous, on edge, increasingly worried.
▪ Faith looked increasingly worried as the day went by.
▪ As he lay on the floor of the Boesch's simple straw-covered house, moaning and groaning, I grew increasingly worried.
▪ Business experts in the town are now increasingly worried about Swindon's future without a development focus.
more
▪ Even so it seems the Czechs are more worried about the tie than Airdrie.
▪ I was worried, more worried than I'd have admitted.
▪ She was younger, thinner, more worried.
▪ I was more worried that he might fall over and hurt himself.
▪ The others are ten times more worried than you are.
▪ And then he became even more worried about what she might get up to with a lover.
▪ And the victims' relatives found policemen more worried about where the next beer was coming from, than catching killers.
▪ I think he caught me at a vulnerable moment, when I was more worried about myself than I am now.
particularly
▪ Leivi is particularly worried by the high levels of phosphorous and nitrogen in the animals' droppings, which seep into groundwater.
▪ She is particularly worried that a freeze on public sector pay will cause outcry among doctors, nurses and hospital workers.
▪ The council is particularly worried by the existence of planning permission for quarrying so far unused.
really
▪ Twelve months on, Sir Angus is not really worried on either score.
▪ If I didn't know, I'd have thought she was really worried.
▪ By the third tee I was really worried.
▪ She says he was never really worried about compensation, he just wanted the truth.
▪ She would get really worried and stroke my forehead and plead with me not to talk about dying.
▪ The hydrofoil had done four return journeys before its driver began to get really worried.
▪ Her great distress really worried him.
seriously
▪ There was no sign of her at tea-time, and I began to be seriously worried.
▪ We were seriously worried, for he was neither young nor fit, and his morale was terribly low.
▪ Both major parties were seriously worried by the situation.
▪ For the first time, Giles became seriously worried.
so
▪ Catherine seemed to be unconscious, and Mr Edgar was so worried about her that he forgot about Heathcliff for the moment.
▪ The doctor sent her to hospital where she stayed some time, and had X-ray examinations, and I was so worried.
▪ But I was so worried, Meg.
▪ I was just so worried and I've been phoning everyone.
▪ Don't look so worried, they're serious.
▪ It had been when she was so worried about Bob overstretching himself never being off duty and relaxed.
▪ I suppose I could, once Mum's had her operation - he won't be so worried then.
▪ Why did she feel so worried?
still
▪ We are still worried about the groundwater mystery, however.
▪ Afterwards, if you're still worried about what it all means, read the reviews.
▪ We are still worried about quality, however - the change in the nature of the relationship between research and teaching.
▪ If you're still worried, do contact your doctor.
▪ If you are still worried, then play safe and go to the nearest source of help.
too
▪ When it went 0-1, I wasn't too worried.
▪ But are we becoming too worried?
▪ Some former foster parents were not too worried about continuity of contact.
▪ As he told the story, he did not seem too worried.
▪ Since they are working on the wrong side of the law anyway, they're not too worried.
▪ But Jack was too worried to try to work it out.
▪ He really wasn't too worried about this revival, in spite of the casting of Ingrid and Therese.
▪ She posted Gay's letter on the way, but was too worried now to think much about it.
very
▪ Nutty, very worried, wondered what Nails' strategy would prove to be.
▪ We are very worried about our future.
▪ He's very worried about drought and very enterprising.
▪ Anyway, she seemed to be very worried about the state of the market: recession and all that.
▪ She says that they are very worried about him.
▪ He was very worried about the lack of progress with recruiting the people on his list.
▪ As a result, she became very worried about him.
▪ Can he say anything this afternoon that will enable me to reassure my very worried constituents?
■ NOUN
frown
▪ There was just that constant tiny worried frown between her brows to show the strain.
▪ Tension showed in the tight line of Amelie's mouth, the worried frown between her eyes and her new thinness.
look
▪ The worried look on Jannie's face softened.
▪ They were getting that worried look you see on people's faces on the Tube.
▪ Marie and Peter are watching me with a sort of worried look on their face.
▪ I was awarded seventeen points out of twenty but judging by the worried looks and furrowed brows there were some lower scores.
▪ He bowed to Burun, a worried look on his face.
▪ When he had finished he had a worried look on his face.
sick
▪ I've been worried sick about you.
▪ They'd have been worried sick about her, and what could they do so many miles away?
▪ My dear Carolyn, Your father and I are worried sick about you.
▪ Look, your poor mum's been worried sick.
▪ We were worried sick about it.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be worried sick/be sick with worry
bored/scared/worried stiff
▪ And I was scared stiff about having lied to Mel about being single when he hired me.
▪ Cis, who knew about it, was scared stiff.
▪ He was scared stiff, thought a ghastly mistake had been made.
▪ He was very naturally scared stiff of using up all his remaining petrol and making a bad landing.
▪ Mabel was by now scared stiff and frozen cold.
▪ Poor kid, thought Alice, he's scared stiff.
▪ We looked at each other, scared stiff, but we followed Mrs Bullivant upstairs.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Dave could see how worried she was, and he tried to reassure her.
▪ Helen looked at me with a worried expression.
▪ I'm getting worried because my account still hasn't registered a check I deposited a while ago.
▪ I'm not really worried about how much it will cost.
▪ I was worried if I washed it, it might shrink.
▪ Marion was worried about losing her job.
▪ She had such a worried look on her face!
▪ She rushed to the station, worried that she might miss her train.
▪ We're very worried about Grandma.
▪ What's wrong? You look worried.
▪ You look worried - what's the matter?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And is it because of them that you're worried about the future - do you get depressed as a grandparent?
▪ He's very worried about drought and very enterprising.
▪ He too was worried that he had been unfair to Angel.
▪ Local people there have been worried for some time about safety factors which affect the tunnel.
▪ She says she does get worried that she might miss a change.
▪ They were getting that worried look you see on people's faces on the Tube.
▪ We are worried that we can't provide the level we have provided in the past.