Associations to the word «Worrisome»

Wiktionary

WORRISOME, adjective. Causing worry; perturbing or vexing.
WORRISOME, adjective. Said of a person: inclined to worry.

Dictionary definition

WORRISOME, adjective. Not reassuring; tending to cause anxiety.
WORRISOME, adjective. 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".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats