worry

1. 1.

   something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness

   “New York traffic is a constant concern”

   “it's a major worry”

   Synonymsconcernheadachevexation

   Broadernegative stimulus

   Narrowerbugabooburdenbusiness
2. 2.

   a strong feeling of anxiety

   “his worry over the prospect of being fired”

   “it is not work but worry that kills”

   “he wanted to die and end his troubles”

   Synonymstrouble

   Broaderanxiety

Other forms of worry

plural

worries·

past tense or participle

worried

present participle

worrying·

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.

Questions about worry

What does worry mean?

worry means "be worried, concerned, anxious, troubled, or uneasy". That is the primary sense; the word has 8 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in worry?

worry has 2 syllables: wor-ry. The stress falls on "wor". In IPA it is /ˈwɝi/.

What is another word for worry?

Close synonyms include care, vex, concern, interest, occupy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of worry?

The recorded antonyms are reassure.

Is worry a common word?

worry is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.