worried

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wor‧ried S2 W3 /ˈwʌrid $ ˈwɜːrid/ adjective
[Word Family: adjective: worried ≠ UNWORRIED, worrying, worrisome; noun: worry, worrier; adverb: worryingly, worriedly; verb: worry]
1. unhappy because you keep thinking about a problem, or about something bad that might happen:
　 ▪ She gave me a worried look.
worried about
　 ▪ I’m really worried about my brother.
worried by
　 ▪ Local people are worried by the rise in crime.
worried (that)
　 ▪ I was worried we wouldn’t have enough money.
　 ▪ His parents must be worried sick (=extremely worried).

2. you had me worried
spoken used to say that someone made you feel anxious because you did not properly understand what they said, or did not realize that it was a joke:
　 ▪ You had me worried there for a minute!

—worriedly adverb
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COLLOCATIONS
adverbs
▪very/really worried
　 ▪ We were really worried about him during the divorce.
▪increasingly worried
　 ▪ The family became increasingly worried about her safety.
▪seriously/deeply worried
　 ▪ Hazel was now seriously worried. Why hadn’t he come back?
▪desperately worried (=extremely worried)
　 ▪ All this time I was desperately worried about my family.
▪a little/slightly worried (also a bit worried British English)
　 ▪ I was a bit worried about my exams.
▪not unduly worried (=not very worried)
　 ▪ Jerry did not sound unduly worried at the prospect of going to jail.
verbs
▪be worried
　 ▪ I was so worried!
▪get/become worried
　 ▪ You should have called me. I was getting worried.
▪look worried
　 ▪ Don’t look so worried! It’ll be fine.
phrases
▪worried sick/stiff (=extremely worried)
　 ▪ Where have you been? We’ve been worried sick!
nouns
▪a worried expression/look
　 ▪ John came in with a worried look on his face.
▪a worried frown
　 ▪ Her worried frown deepened.
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THESAURUS
▪worried not feeling happy or relaxed because you keep thinking about a problem or something bad that might happen :
　 ▪ I was worried that you had forgotten our date.
　 ▪ It’s awful if you are worried about money.
　 ▪ I was so worried that I couldn’t sleep at all.
▪anxious worried because you think something bad might happen or has happened. Anxious is more formal than worried, and is often used about a general feeling of worry, when you are not sure what has happened :
　 ▪ A lot of employees are anxious about their jobs.
　 ▪ Anxious relatives waited for news.
▪nervous worried or frightened about something you are going to do or experience, and unable to relax :
　 ▪ Everyone feels nervous before an exam.
　 ▪ The thought of going into hospital was making me nervous.
▪uneasy a little worried because you feel there may be something wrong and you are not sure what is going to happen :
　 ▪ When she still wasn’t home by midnight, I began to feel uneasy.
　 ▪ The total silence was making me feel uneasy.
▪concerned formal worried, usually about a problem affecting someone else or affecting the country or the world :
　 ▪ Many people are concerned about the current economic situation.
　 ▪ Police say that they are concerned for the safety of the missing girl.
▪bothered [NOT BEFORE NOUN]worried by something that happens – often used in negative sentences :
　 ▪ She didn’t seem particularly bothered by the news.
▪troubled very worried, so that you think about something a lot :
　 ▪ She fell into a troubled sleep.
　 ▪ a troubled expression
　 ▪ ‘Are you okay, Ben? You look troubled.’
▪apprehensive especially written a little worried about something you are going to do, or about the future, because you are not sure what it will be like :
　 ▪ I felt a bit apprehensive about seeing him again after so long.
▪stressed (out) informal very worried and tired because of problems, too much work etc, and unable to relax or enjoy life :
　 ▪ He’d been working ten hours a day for ages and was stressed out.
　 ▪ an extremely stressed single mother

adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an anxious/troubled/worried expression
▪ She stood looking at me with an anxious expression.
desperately unhappy/lonely/worried etc
seriously worried
▪ Hazel was now seriously worried.
unduly worried/concerned/anxious etc
▪ She doesn’t seem unduly concerned about her exams.
worried/anxious
▪ My father watched us go with a worried face.
worried/concerned/anxious etc lest ...
▪ He paused, afraid lest he say too much.
▪ She worried lest he should tell someone what had happened.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADVERB
also
▪ I didn't blame him, and I didn't doubt that he was also worried about me.
▪ The trust is also worried that it took six weeks for the emergency stop-order to progress through the Whitehall's bureaucracy.
▪ She was also worried about having to manage the farm by herself again.
▪ He was also worried in case that fat little manager came round to check up on him.
▪ Noreen was also worried about having Maria up so late - she was after all, just turned eleven.
▪ People are also worried about the general effect of the new station on their community.
▪ National Rivers Authority was also worried because once the section is designated its legal protection would make flood maintenance work difficult.
▪ People were also worried that electro-magnetic fields could destroy the body's resistance to infection.
desperately
▪ Your parents are desperately worried, and no wonder.
▪ Derek returned home a desperately worried person.
▪ All this time I was desperately worried about my family.
▪ The lawyer was desperately worried about his friend Doctor Jekyll.
▪ She felt insecure, unsure of the future and desperately worried about Steve and Maria Luisa.
▪ Citizens in inner-city areas are desperately worried and rightly so, about street crime.
▪ Male speaker I am desperately worried that the aid won't get tothe people it's meant for.
how
▪ He wasn't sure just how worried he ought to be by Therese Aschmann.
▪ She wasn't at all good at concealing how worried she was for his safety.
increasingly
▪ Social-security ministers, increasingly worried about the growth in single motherhood, find it hard to know what to do about it.
▪ Val was becoming increasingly worried by the spate of vicious attacks on horses.
▪ From the shelter of Tiger Haven, Billy became increasingly worried about the fate of the cubs.
▪ Read in studio Police are growing increasingly worried about a mentally handicapped man who's been missing for three days.
▪ He's nervous, on edge, increasingly worried.
▪ Faith looked increasingly worried as the day went by.
▪ As he lay on the floor of the Boesch's simple straw-covered house, moaning and groaning, I grew increasingly worried.
▪ Business experts in the town are now increasingly worried about Swindon's future without a development focus.
more
▪ Even so it seems the Czechs are more worried about the tie than Airdrie.
▪ I was worried, more worried than I'd have admitted.
▪ She was younger, thinner, more worried.
▪ I was more worried that he might fall over and hurt himself.
▪ The others are ten times more worried than you are.
▪ And then he became even more worried about what she might get up to with a lover.
▪ And the victims' relatives found policemen more worried about where the next beer was coming from, than catching killers.
▪ I think he caught me at a vulnerable moment, when I was more worried about myself than I am now.
particularly
▪ Leivi is particularly worried by the high levels of phosphorous and nitrogen in the animals' droppings, which seep into groundwater.
▪ She is particularly worried that a freeze on public sector pay will cause outcry among doctors, nurses and hospital workers.
▪ The council is particularly worried by the existence of planning permission for quarrying so far unused.
really
▪ Twelve months on, Sir Angus is not really worried on either score.
▪ If I didn't know, I'd have thought she was really worried.
▪ By the third tee I was really worried.
▪ She says he was never really worried about compensation, he just wanted the truth.
▪ She would get really worried and stroke my forehead and plead with me not to talk about dying.
▪ The hydrofoil had done four return journeys before its driver began to get really worried.
▪ Her great distress really worried him.
seriously
▪ There was no sign of her at tea-time, and I began to be seriously worried.
▪ We were seriously worried, for he was neither young nor fit, and his morale was terribly low.
▪ Both major parties were seriously worried by the situation.
▪ For the first time, Giles became seriously worried.
so
▪ Catherine seemed to be unconscious, and Mr Edgar was so worried about her that he forgot about Heathcliff for the moment.
▪ The doctor sent her to hospital where she stayed some time, and had X-ray examinations, and I was so worried.
▪ But I was so worried, Meg.
▪ I was just so worried and I've been phoning everyone.
▪ Don't look so worried, they're serious.
▪ It had been when she was so worried about Bob overstretching himself never being off duty and relaxed.
▪ I suppose I could, once Mum's had her operation - he won't be so worried then.
▪ Why did she feel so worried?
still
▪ We are still worried about the groundwater mystery, however.
▪ Afterwards, if you're still worried about what it all means, read the reviews.
▪ We are still worried about quality, however - the change in the nature of the relationship between research and teaching.
▪ If you're still worried, do contact your doctor.
▪ If you are still worried, then play safe and go to the nearest source of help.
too
▪ When it went 0-1, I wasn't too worried.
▪ But are we becoming too worried?
▪ Some former foster parents were not too worried about continuity of contact.
▪ As he told the story, he did not seem too worried.
▪ Since they are working on the wrong side of the law anyway, they're not too worried.
▪ But Jack was too worried to try to work it out.
▪ He really wasn't too worried about this revival, in spite of the casting of Ingrid and Therese.
▪ She posted Gay's letter on the way, but was too worried now to think much about it.
very
▪ Nutty, very worried, wondered what Nails' strategy would prove to be.
▪ We are very worried about our future.
▪ He's very worried about drought and very enterprising.
▪ Anyway, she seemed to be very worried about the state of the market: recession and all that.
▪ She says that they are very worried about him.
▪ He was very worried about the lack of progress with recruiting the people on his list.
▪ As a result, she became very worried about him.
▪ Can he say anything this afternoon that will enable me to reassure my very worried constituents?
NOUN
frown
▪ There was just that constant tiny worried frown between her brows to show the strain.
▪ Tension showed in the tight line of Amelie's mouth, the worried frown between her eyes and her new thinness.
look
▪ The worried look on Jannie's face softened.
▪ They were getting that worried look you see on people's faces on the Tube.
▪ Marie and Peter are watching me with a sort of worried look on their face.
▪ I was awarded seventeen points out of twenty but judging by the worried looks and furrowed brows there were some lower scores.
▪ He bowed to Burun, a worried look on his face.
▪ When he had finished he had a worried look on his face.
sick
▪ I've been worried sick about you.
▪ They'd have been worried sick about her, and what could they do so many miles away?
▪ My dear Carolyn, Your father and I are worried sick about you.
▪ Look, your poor mum's been worried sick.
▪ We were worried sick about it.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be worried sick/be sick with worry
bored/scared/worried stiff
▪ And I was scared stiff about having lied to Mel about being single when he hired me.
▪ Cis, who knew about it, was scared stiff.
▪ He was scared stiff, thought a ghastly mistake had been made.
▪ He was very naturally scared stiff of using up all his remaining petrol and making a bad landing.
▪ Mabel was by now scared stiff and frozen cold.
▪ Poor kid, thought Alice, he's scared stiff.
▪ We looked at each other, scared stiff, but we followed Mrs Bullivant upstairs.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Dave could see how worried she was, and he tried to reassure her.
▪ Helen looked at me with a worried expression.
▪ I'm getting worried because my account still hasn't registered a check I deposited a while ago.
▪ I'm not really worried about how much it will cost.
▪ I was worried if I washed it, it might shrink.
▪ Marion was worried about losing her job.
▪ She had such a worried look on her face!
▪ She rushed to the station, worried that she might miss her train.
▪ We're very worried about Grandma.
▪ What's wrong? You look worried.
▪ You look worried - what's the matter?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And is it because of them that you're worried about the future - do you get depressed as a grandparent?
▪ He's very worried about drought and very enterprising.
▪ He too was worried that he had been unfair to Angel.
▪ Local people there have been worried for some time about safety factors which affect the tunnel.
▪ She says she does get worried that she might miss a change.
▪ They were getting that worried look you see on people's faces on the Tube.
▪ We are worried that we can't provide the level we have provided in the past.