Synonyms for worrying
wor·ry·ing

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1. badgering, worrying, torment, bedevilmentnoun

   the act of harassing someone

   Synonyms:
   badgering, anguish, harassment, torture, bedevilment, agony, curse, torment

   Antonyms:
   light

2. worryingadjective

   the act of moving something by repeated tugs or pushes

   "vigorous worrying finally loosened the saw"

   Synonyms:
   bedevilment, torment, badgering

   Antonyms:
   light

3. 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, deplorable, sorry, sad, disturbing, lamentable, distressful, worrisome, troubling, distressing, pitiful

   Antonyms:
   light

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1. worryingadjective

   Synonyms:
   anxious, distressing, carking

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1. List of paraphrases for "worrying":

   disturbing, alarming, worrisome, troubling, disquieting, distressing, unsettling, preoccupying, disconcerting, ominous, concerned, frightening

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1. Liam Hendriks:

   Hearing that kind of confirmed from a different source who has never seen me wrong in the past is pretty nice to hear, stop worrying about trying to live up to expectations. Stop worrying about trying to do this. Just go out there and be you.

2. Adam Scaife:

   That is not saying the Paris Agreement is done for ... but it's a worrying sign.

3. Jake Baum:

   We're currently at a sort of crossroads in global malaria control, we've had decades of progress in reducing the number of deaths from the turn of the millennium. But we've kind of reached this point where we sort of stalled in our progress and there are some worrying signs of emerging drug resistance, just like you have antibiotic resistance to bacteria.

4. Mickey Mehta:

   The amount of time we spend thinking, criticizing, judging, worrying, calculating, fighting, hating, arguing, is not funny. Considering one third of our lives we spend sleeping and the rest is consumed by non-creative processes mentioned above.What a waste of life. Let's also stop becoming paranoid humanoids and instead simply be human beings living in joy. Mickeymize your life.

5. Manager Luis Rojas:

   Those are types of things that I do not think about just because in my field, it’s just very disrespectful to the group here to be worrying about that before worrying about the team.