Synonyms for worrisome
ˈwɜr i səm, ˈwʌr-wor·ri·some

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1. unreassuring, worrisomeadjective

   not reassuring; tending to cause anxiety

   Synonyms:
   distressing, worrying, perturbing, disturbing, distressful, troubling, unreassuring

   Antonyms:
   light

2. distressing, distressful, disturbing, perturbing, troubling, worrisome, worryingadjective

   causing distress or worry or anxiety

   "distressing (or disturbing) news"; "lived in heroic if something distressful isolation"; "a disturbing amount of crime"; "a revelation that was most perturbing"; "a new and troubling thought"; "in a particularly worrisome predicament"; "a worrying situation"; "a worrying time"

   Synonyms:
   perturbing, unreassuring, worrying, deplorable, sorry, sad, disturbing, lamentable, distressful, troubling, distressing, pitiful

   Antonyms:
   light

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1. List of paraphrases for "worrisome":

   worrying, disturbing, troubling, alarming, disquieting, distressing, ominous, preoccupying, unsettling

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1. Jeanne Marrazzo:

   None of those currently experiencing these worrisome trends ever fulfilled the criteria laid out by the task force, which included a sustained downtrend in the percent positive tests for at least 2 weeks.

2. Bill Deverell:

   Here we are — it’s not the end of August and the size and distribution and the destruction of summer 2021 wildfires does not bode well for the next months, the suggestion of patterns across the last two decades in the West is deeply unsettling and worrisome: hotter, bigger, more fires.

3. Peter Berkowitz:

   There's something in my mind worrisome and off in declaring what the authentic conservative position is, the better way to characterize the tradition is really an unending debate between these two sides.

4. Paul Offit:

   It is a little worrisome that you see a lesser neutralizing antibody response, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that you are unprotected, the goal of this vaccine is to keep you out of the hospital and to keep you out of the morgue. If you get a symptomatic infection or mildly symptomatic infection that is not a burden to the healthcare system.

5. Stanford President John Hennessy:

   It’s clearly at some level a conflict, it’s not a direct conflict, but it is a worrisome issue.