worrying

  • (s) 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
    distressful, distressing, disturbing, perturbing, troubling, worrisome,

Nouns

  • (n) the act of harassing someone badgering, bedevilment, torment,
  • (n) the act of moving something by repeated tugs or pushes
    • vigorous worrying finally loosened the saw

Synonyms

distressful distressing disturbing perturbing troubling worrisome badgering bedevilment torment

Words of close approximity

worryingly