worried

English

A worried girl.

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ˈwʌrid/

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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

• 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)
• Indonesian: khawatir (id)

• Irish: imníoch (ga)
• Italian: preoccupato (it)
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• Luxembourgish: besuergt (lb)
• Manx: boirit (gv)
• Old French: anguissous
• 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