worried

English

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ˈwʌrid/

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A worried girl.

Adjective

worried (comparative more worried, superlative most worried)

1. Thinking about unpleasant things that have happened or that might happen; feeling afraid and unhappy.

   She was worried about her son who had been sent off to fight in the war.

Derived terms

• unworried

Translations

thinking about unpleasant things that have happened or that might happen

Anglo-Norman: anguissous Arabic: قلق (ar) Catalan: preocupat (ca) m., preocupada (ca) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 擔心 (cmn), 担心 (cmn) (dānxīn), 著急 (cmn), 着急 (cmn) (zháojí), 憂慮 (cmn), 忧虑 (cmn) (yōulǜ), 煩惱 (cmn), 烦恼 (cmn) (fánnǎo), 焦急 (cmn) (jiāojí), 憂慮 (cmn), 忧虑 (cmn) (yōulǜ) Czech: znepokojený (cs) m. Dutch: ongerust (nl), bezorgd (nl) Finnish: huolestunut (fi) French: inquiet (fr) Old French: angousseus German: besorgt (de)

Hungarian: gondterhelt (hu), aggódó (hu) Irish: imníoch (ga) Italian: preoccupato (it) Japanese: please add this translation if you can Korean: please add this translation if you can Luxembourgish: besuergt (lb) Manx: boirit (gv) Portuguese: preocupado (pt) Russian: беспокоится (ru) (bespokóits’a) Scottish Gaelic: iomagaineach (gd) Spanish: inquieto (es), preocupado (es) Swedish: bekymrad (sv), oroad (sv) Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

Verb

worried

1. Simple past tense and past participle of worry.

Derived terms

• worriedly
• worriedness

Anagrams

• rowdier
• wordier