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Vinony

worrisome

adjective

  1. worry with direct object, causing worry, anxious about
  2. suggestive of a particular condition or outcome
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈwʌɹisəm/ / /ˈwɜɹisəm/ / /ˈwʊɹisəm/

adj

Etymology: From worry + -some.

  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.”

    “OUR “WORRISOMEST” WEEDS / Johnson grass and Bermuda grass will be growing fast by late May.”

  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.”