worry
Anxiety about maybes
Worry is anxious unease about something uncertain or potentially bad.
You worry about your health, your children, your future.
The verb takes various forms: I'm worried about the test, Don't worry, What's worrying you?
To worry something is to disturb or harass it—a dog worries a bone, troubles worry a nation.
A worry is a source of anxiety: Money is my biggest worry.
Emotional response to threat
- dreadIntense anticipatory fear
- apprehensionNervous anticipation of trouble
- nervousnessState of anxious unease
- uneaseMild persistent worry
trepidation · panic · angst · foreboding · disquiet · jitters · edginess · agitation
Ponder far too much
- broodHatchlings as a group
- dwellInhabit a place
- ruminateThink deeply and repeatedly
- obsessDwell on compulsively
fret · stew · agonize · fixate · ponder · mull · gnaw · torment
Attentive regard for others
- solicitudeAttentive care and concern
- watchfulnessCareful, sustained attention
- vigilanceState of keen awareness
- heedfulnessQuality of being alert
mindfulness · caution · wariness · alertness · circumspection · prudence · protectiveness · attentiveness
Force upon contact
- strainExcessive stretching force
- tensionStretched or strained state
- overwhelmDefeat by excess
- burnoutChronic occupational depletion
exhaustion · fatigue · cortisol · headache · sleeplessness · nervousness · restlessness · irritability
fear
Emotional response to threat
- dreadIntense anticipatory fear
- apprehensionNervous anticipation of trouble
- nervousnessState of anxious unease
unease · trepidation · panic · angst · foreboding · disquiet · jitters · edginess · agitation · restlessness
overthink
Ponder far too much
obsess · fret · stew · agonize · fixate · ponder · mull · gnaw · torment · wring
care
Attentive regard for others
- solicitudeAttentive care and concern
- watchfulnessCareful, sustained attention
- vigilanceState of keen awareness
heedfulness · mindfulness · caution · wariness · alertness · circumspection · prudence · protectiveness · attentiveness · consideration
pressure
Force upon contact
burnout · exhaustion · fatigue · cortisol · headache · sleeplessness · nervousness · restlessness · irritability · hypertension
nag
Pester repeatedly
hound · plague · vex · torment · trouble · irritate · annoy · agitate · unsettle · perturb
frown
Disapproving facial expression
scowl · grimace · pallor · pacing · fidget · nail-biting · trembling · sweating · sleeplessness · haggard
- feelingsemotion, feeling, pleasure, joy, anger
- W wordswater, walk, wind, wood, world
- Anxietyanxiety, nervousness, panic, generalized anxiety, dread
- bad feelingssadness, anger, fear, grief, sorrow
- stressstress, chronic stress, acute stress, strain, stressor
- agitationagitation, anxiety, nervousness, unease, restlessness
worrypeace of mind
State without anxiety
calm · serenity · tranquility · ease · calmness
worryconfidence
Self-assurance or trust
trust · acceptance · accept · faith · optimism
- don't worryReassurance against anxiety
- no worriesCasual dismissal of concern
- worried sickIntensely anxious to illness
- don't worry about it
- do not worryReassurance against anxiety
- be worriedExperience anxious concern
worried, worrying, worries, worrisome, unworried, worrywart, worrier, worryingly, worriers