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US
/ˈwɝisəm/
]
[ UK /wˈʌɹisˌʌm/ ]
[ UK /wˈʌɹisˌʌm/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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causing distress or worry or anxiety
a worrying time
a new and troubling thought
distressing (or disturbing) news
a disturbing amount of crime
a revelation that was most perturbing
lived in heroic if something distressful isolation
a worrying situation
in a particularly worrisome predicament - not reassuring; tending to cause anxiety
How To Use worrisome In A Sentence
- The most worrisome cross-border export, however, is drugs.
- It is worrisome for magazines and newspapers, since Internet media consumption is already higher than for print media.
- Alcohol and tobacco consumption by young people is especially worrisome because habits formed early are likely to persist.
- His message to the White House was much more worrisome than maybe to the average person in the public.
- Infectious-disease experts say the most worrisome of the gram-negative bacteria may be acinetobacter, which is commonly found in soil and water, and may be carried by up to 40% of people on their skin. 'Superbugs' That Strike the Sickest Patients
- The most worrisome aspect of this is that we are unlikely to get that proof.
- The guerrillas had stirred my gravest anxiety, but little did I know about the hundred additional worrisome things until I debarked down here.
- That same day, Mexican authorities notified PAHO of a worrisome outbreak of atypical pneumonia.
- This trend is quite worrisome because, in the virtual absence of private investment, public sector spending is expected to be a major source of stimulus to the economy.
- Alcohol and tobacco consumption by young people is especially worrisome because habits formed early are likely to persist.
