Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who worries or harasses (himself or others); one who is given to worrying or who harasses with anxious forebodings.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who worries.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who
worries a great deal, especially unnecessarily.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun thinks about unfortunate things that might happen
Etymologies
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Examples
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She is anxious me - the me that my own mother refers to as a worrier - and she is self-deprecating me.
Archive 2007-04-29 2007
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She is anxious me - the me that my own mother refers to as a worrier - and she is self-deprecating me.
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She is anxious me - the me that my own mother refers to as a worrier - and she is self-deprecating me.
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She is anxious me - the me that my own mother refers to as a worrier - and she is self-deprecating me.
Archive 2007-07-15 2007
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She is anxious me – the me that my own mother refers to as a worrier - and she is self-deprecating me.
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She is anxious me – the me that my own mother refers to as a worrier - and she is self-deprecating me.
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In the White House, Berger was known as a worrier with his antennae tuned to potential political problems.
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I get the feeling Breslow's not a big worrier, which is consistent with the perspective one tends to have when you've been an 11-year old with a sister battling cancer.
Athletics Nation 2010
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I think I am more of a "worrier" than I used to be, and I was pretty good at worrying before the whole autism thing.
A Conversation with Marti Leimbach, Author of Daniel Isn't Talking 2010
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I'm the official family "worrier", becoming anxious over every matter, both in and out of my control.
Worrying About Money 2008
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