Home of English Grammar

Grammar Guide
  • Home
  • Exercises
  • Matches
  • Rules
  • Tools
    • Grammar Checker
    • Very Replacer
    • Word Counter
  • Top Social Media Posts
  • Various Posts
  • Vocabulary
  • Writing Guides
  • Contact

100 Best Synonyms for “Worry”

May 8, 2026

100 Best Synonyms for

No. Item Definition
1. agitation nervous excitement or anxiety
2. agonize to worry intensely about
3. alarm sudden anxious fear
4. anxiety nervous unease about something
5. anxious worried and uneasy
6. apprehension anxious expectation of trouble
7. be anxious to feel worried
8. be bothered to feel concerned
9. be concerned to feel troubled
10. be troubled to feel distressed
11. be uneasy to feel unsettled
12. be upset to feel emotionally disturbed
13. bother to trouble or concern
14. brood to dwell anxiously on
15. care serious concern or attention
16. careworn showing signs of worry
17. concern a feeling of unease
18. concerned worried or interested
19. consumed completely occupied by concern
20. cower to shrink from fear
21. disquiet a feeling of unease
22. distress extreme anxiety or sorrow
23. distressed suffering anxiety or sorrow
24. disturb to unsettle mentally
25. doubt to feel uncertain or fearful
26. dread great fear about something
27. edgy tense and nervous
28. fear anxious feeling of danger
29. flinch to draw back nervously
30. flip out to react with anxiety
31. foreboding a sense of coming trouble
32. freak out to become very anxious
33. fret to feel anxious repeatedly
34. fuss to show anxious concern
35. get anxious to become worried
36. get nervous to become anxious
37. get stressed to become pressured
38. get worked up to become very worried
39. go to pieces to become emotionally upset
40. harassed troubled and stressed
41. harrow to distress deeply
42. haunted troubled continually
43. heartache deep emotional distress
44. hesitate to pause from uncertainty
45. hung up mentally preoccupied or anxious
46. in a flap nervously upset
47. in a tizzy in an anxious state
48. in turmoil in emotional disturbance
49. inner turmoil intense emotional disturbance
50. inquietude restless uneasiness
51. irked slightly troubled or annoyed
52. jitters feelings of nervous anxiety
53. jumpy easily startled from nerves
54. load a burden causing stress
55. lose it to become emotionally overwhelmed
56. lose sleep to worry a lot
57. losing sleep about worrying a lot about
58. losing sleep over worrying intensely about
59. mental anguish severe emotional suffering
60. mind to be bothered by
61. misdoubt to suspect with anxiety
62. misgiving a feeling of doubt
63. moil to feel troubled or agitated
64. nerves nervous anxiety or tension
65. nervous strain stress from anxiety
66. nervousness a state of being anxious
67. obsess to preoccupy troublingly
68. overwrought extremely nervous or upset
69. panic sudden overwhelming anxiety
70. perturbation mental disturbance or anxiety
71. perturbed anxious or unsettled
72. preoccupied absorbed by troubling thoughts
73. pressure stress or mental burden
74. quail to shrink in fear
75. qualm an uneasy feeling of doubt
76. recoil to shrink back in fear
77. restless unable to relax from anxiety
78. rumination repetitive anxious thinking
79. shake to tremble from fear
80. shudder to tremble with dread
81. stew to remain anxiously upset
82. strain pressure causing anxiety
83. stress mental strain or pressure
84. sweat to be very anxious
85. take fright to become suddenly afraid
86. tension mental or emotional strain
87. the shakes nervous trembling
88. torment oneself to worry painfully
89. tremble to shake with anxiety
90. trouble to cause mental distress
91. troubled anxious or distressed
92. under strain experiencing mental pressure
93. under stress experiencing anxiety or pressure
94. unease slight anxiety or discomfort
95. uneasy slightly worried
96. upset to make anxious or unhappy
97. vex to trouble or annoy
98. vexed troubled or annoyed
99. wince to react with anxious discomfort
100. wrought up very upset or anxious
  • Share
  • Post
  • Post
  • Email
NEW: Try Matches, our daily vocabulary challenge. Pick a topic and level and match words with definitions to boost your vocabulary.
2,485,429 
761,532 
Improve Your Grammar
  • Download 2026 Grammar Guide (PDF)
  • Free Weekly Exercises & Vocabulary
  • Join over 3 Million English Learners
We respect your privacy. Unsubscribe anytime.

Grammar Checker

GrammarCheck.net - Try online
Hint → Bookmark GrammarCheck for future use.

Latest Posts

  • 100 Best Synonyms for “Worry” May 8, 2026
  • 100 Best Synonyms for “Understanding” May 8, 2026
  • 100 Best Synonyms for “Expand” May 8, 2026
  • 100 Words to Describe Textures May 8, 2026
  • What “a bee in your bonnet” really means May 8, 2026
  • 100 Best Synonyms for “Robust” May 8, 2026
  • 100 Best Synonyms for “Idleness” May 8, 2026

Copyright © 2026 · EnglishGrammar.org
Disclaimer · Privacy Policy · Sitemap · Terms

Improve Your Grammar
  • Download 2026 Grammar Guide (PDF)
  • Free Weekly Exercises & Vocabulary
  • Join over 3 Million English Learners
We respect your privacy. Unsubscribe anytime.