This answer set for “Worried” includes entries that were accepted in real puzzles. Each item on the list is a practical solution that has proven valid when this clue has appeared before.
Answers:
- ATEAT
- ALARMED
- ANXIOUS
- PERTURBED
- DISTURBED
- UNEASY
- NERVOUS
- BOTHERED
- CONCERNED
- NIGGLED
- STEWED
- AGITATED
- EDGY
- HARASSED
- FRAUGHT
- FRETTED
- FUSSED
- FRETFUL
- TROUBLED
- LOSTSLEEP
Synonyms and Definitions
ALARMED
- Synonyms: alarm, alert, appal, appall, dismay, horrify
ANXIOUS
- Synonyms: dying, nervous, queasy, uneasy, unquiet
PERTURBED
- Synonyms: cark, derange, disorder, disquiet, distract, flustered, hot and bothered, perturb, rattled, throw out of kilter, trouble, unhinge
DISTURBED
- Synonyms: agitate, brainsick, commove, crazy, demented, disquieted, distressed, disturb, interrupt, mad, maladjusted, raise up, shake up, sick, stir up, touch, unbalanced, unhinged, upset, vex
UNEASY
- Synonyms: anxious, awkward, ill at ease, restless
NERVOUS
- Synonyms: aflutter, flighty, neural, skittish, spooky
BOTHERED
- Synonyms: annoy, bother, chafe, daunted, devil, discommode, disoblige, fazed, get at, get to, gravel, incommode, inconvenience, inconvenience oneself, irritate, nark, nettle, put out, rag, rile, trouble oneself
CONCERNED
- Synonyms: bear on, come to, concern, have-to doe with, implicated, interest, interested, occupy, pertain, refer, relate, touch on, worry
NIGGLED
- Synonyms: bicker, brabble, fret, fuss, niggle, pettifog, quibble, squabble
STEWED
- Synonyms: boiled, brood, grizzle, grudge, poached, stew
AGITATED
- Synonyms: budge, campaign, charge, charge up, crusade, excite, fight, foment, press, push, rouse, shake, shift, stir, turn on
EDGY
- Synonyms: high-strung, highly strung, jittery, jumpy, nervy, overstrung, restive, uptight
HARASSED
- Synonyms: annoyed, beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harass, harried, harry, hassle, molest, pestered, plague, provoke, vexed
FRAUGHT
- Synonyms: pregnant
FRETTED
- Synonyms: choke, eat away, eat into, erode, fray, gag, gall, grate, interlaced, latticed, latticelike, rankle, rub, scratch
FUSSED
- Synonyms: mother, overprotect
FRETFUL
- Synonyms: antsy, fidgety, itchy, querulous, whiney, whiny
TROUBLED
- Synonyms: ail, disruptive, pain, riotous, tumultuous, turbulent