worrisome

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Scrabble points
14
Words With Friends
15
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ˈwʌɹisəm/
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/ˈwʌɹisəm/ · /ˈwɜːɹisəm/ · [ˈwɜː(ə)səm]

Definition of worrisome

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Causing worry; perturbing or vexing.
    “He ’s got a cow, too; she ’s got the worrisomest horns ever was. I believe she ’s a steer anyway.”
    “OUR “WORRISOMEST” WEEDS / Johnson grass and Bermuda grass will be growing fast by late May.”
    ““[…] Just supposing Emily poisoned him, why would she have done it? What could she have against a four-year-old?” / Star sighed. “Mr. Hacey, you do ask me the worrisomest questions. How I know why somebody who maybe didn’t even poison somebody come to poison that somebody?””
    ““Doesn't everyone call his doctor every week or two for reassurance about some worrisome symptom?””
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adj

  1. Causing worry; perturbing or vexing.
    “He ’s got a cow, too; she ’s got the worrisomest horns ever was. I believe she ’s a steer anyway.”
    “OUR “WORRISOMEST” WEEDS / Johnson grass and Bermuda grass will be growing fast by late May.”
    ““[…] Just supposing Emily poisoned him, why would she have done it? What could she have against a four-year-old?” / Star sighed. “Mr. Hacey, you do ask me the worrisomest questions. How I know why somebody who maybe didn’t even poison somebody come to poison that somebody?””
    ““Doesn't everyone call his doctor every week or two for reassurance about some worrisome symptom?””
  2. Inclined to worry.
    “I use to would perform that song when I was singin in Chance’s band. We had a real sweet, dreamy, Dinah Washington-kinda arrangement of it that’d make even the worrisomest drunk pipe down and listen.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From worry + -some.

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