worrisome

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worrisome

  • /ˈwʌɹisəm/ UK
  • /ˈwʌɹisəm/ US
  • /ˈwɜɹisəm/
  • /ˈwʊɹisəm/ Northern England
  • [ˈwɜː(ə)səm]

Rhymes with -ʌɹisəm

Where it comes from

From worry + -some.

adjective more worrisome · worrisomer · most worrisome · worrisomest

  1. Causing worry; perturbing or vexing. He ’s got a cow, too; she ’s got the worrisomest horns ever was. I believe she ’s a steer anyway.
  2. Inclined to worry. I use to would perform that song when I was singin in Chance’s band. We had a real sweet, dreamy, Dinah Washington-kinda arrangement of it that’d make even the worrisomest drunk pipe down and listen.

Similar: alarming, concerning, troubling

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