Crossword clues for worrisome
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Worrisome \Wor"ri*some\, a. Inclined to worry or fret; also, causing worry or annoyance.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"causing worry or annoyance," 1828, from worry + -some (1). Related: Worrisomely.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Causing worry; perturbing or vexing. 2 Said of a person: inclined to worry.
WordNet
adj. not reassuring; tending to cause anxiety [syn: unreassuring] [ant: reassuring]
causing distress or worry or anxiety; "distressing (or disturbing) news"; "lived in heroic if something distressful isolation"; "a disturbing amount of crime"; "a revelation that was most perturbing"; "a new and troubling thought"; "in a particularly worrisome predicament"; "a worrying situation"; "a worrying time" [syn: distressing, distressful, disturbing, perturbing, troubling, worrying]
Usage examples of "worrisome".
Jezebel, his stern and unrepenting mother, swore to her kinfolk and nearby neighbors that she could look into his grey eyes and see the telltale signs on his thin worrisome face to know of his wicked deeds.
Trey pushed the worrisome thoughts from his mind when he heard Jiggers making waking-up noises.
With his openhandedness and hospitality he should have been a marshal of nobility of the good old days, and not a governor in such a worrisome time as ours.
Dexter suddenly knew that he remained as worrisome a mystery to Annalise as she did to him.
But much more worrisome is that so many therapists accept these reports at face value, with inadequate attention given to the suggestibility of clients and to unconscious cuing by their interlocutors.
The laughter came in constant, raucous bursts that were sly and assaultive, very worrisome.
But most worrisome was the feeling in my head as if a fog of wool enfolded every wispy thought, blunting it, stifling it.
The trip to the antiques shop on the previous day was also worrisome.
The pain - added to the pain from the gash he'd received when he'd struck the dinghy while swimming across the channel at Cancun -made him nauseous and created a worrisome double vision.
Even more worrisome was the strange tenderness around her womb, a slight swelling in the area of the fallopian tubes that had become more sensitive.
The new mixed species Leska links are worrisome enough without having to deal with them in a potential war zone should the Valtegans we drove off Keiss decide to return in force.
Even though a moment's thought reveals that nice, normal distribution is terribly worrisome on this island.
Well, if you worked in a restaurant, she supposed, that must be one of the least worrisome of the occupational hazards.
It's worrisome, but true, that the oil rigs have taken on an eerie beauty of their own, as natural to the eye now as orbiting satellites.
We were shocked speechless, and in the stillness she lifted her guitar slightly and began to play, a fast, nagging, worrisome beat, like despairing Richie Havens, an unresolved and maybe unresolvable chord that was almost all open string.