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say it: WUR-eed
worried is an adjective meaning "afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief". It carries 2 recorded senses.
afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief
“too upset to say anything”
“spent many disquieted moments”
“distressed about her son's leaving home”
“lapsed into disturbed sleep”
“worried parents”
“a worried frown”
“one last worried check of the sleeping children”
mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc
“apprehensive about her job”
“not used to a city and worried about small things”
“felt apprehensive about the consequences”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for worried come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.