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worrisome

adj
/ˈwʌɹisəm/UK/ˈwʌɹisəm/US/ˈwɜːɹisəm/

Etymology

From worry + -some.

  1. derived from *werǵʰ-✻ — “bind, squeeze”
  2. inherited from *wurgijaną✻
  3. inherited from wyrġan
  4. inherited from worien
  5. suffixed as worrisome — “worry + some”

Definitions

  1. Causing worry

    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.

  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.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA