Thesaurus:worrier
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]Sense: a person who worries a great deal
[edit]Detail: Especially one who worries unnecessarily or about unimportant matters.
Synonyms
[edit]- bag of nerves
- bundle of nerves
- jitterbug
- nervous Nellie
- nervous wreck
- neurotic
- obsessive
- tightass (slang, mildly vulgar)
- wiener (US)
- worrier
- worryguts
- worrywart
Hyponyms
[edit]Hypernyms
[edit]See also
[edit]- Thesaurus:agonize (verb)
- Thesaurus:nervous (adjective)
Further reading
[edit]- “160. weakness” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “860. fear” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “worrier” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.