Worry synonyms | Another word for worry

Burden, agonize, agitate, agitation, bane, and bugbear are all synonyms for worry. Calm and assurance are these antonyms of worry. And here are another 168 synonyms for worry.

Worry Synonyms

1. fret

  • Agonize
  • Alarming
  • Awkward
  • Be anxious
  • Be concerned
  • Be in a blue funk
  • Be on tenterhooks
  • Be worried
  • Bothersome
  • Brood
  • Concerning
  • Daunting
  • Difficult
  • Dismaying
  • Disquieting
  • Distressing
  • Dwell on
  • Fret
  • Get in a flap
  • Get in a fluster
  • Get in a lather
  • Get in a panic
  • Get in a state
  • Get in a sweat
  • Get in a tizz/tizzy
  • Get overwrought
  • Get steamed up
  • Get stressed
  • Get worked up
  • Grave
  • Hairy
  • Harassing
  • Harrowing
  • Harrying
  • Lose sleep
  • Nerve-racking
  • Niggling
  • Panic
  • Perturbing
  • Prickly
  • Problematic
  • Scary
  • Stew
  • Sticky
  • Sweat
  • Taxing
  • Thorny
  • Torment oneself
  • Torture oneself
  • Traumatic
  • Tricky
  • Troublesome
  • Trying
  • Unpleasant
  • Unsettling
  • Upsetting
  • Vexatious
  • Worrisome
  • Anxious-making

2. trouble

  • Agitate
  • Alarm
  • Be a great weight on
  • Bedevil
  • Besiege
  • Bother
  • Bug
  • Burden
  • Cause anxiety
  • Concern
  • Discombobulate
  • Discompose
  • Disquiet
  • Distress
  • Disturb
  • Do someone's head in
  • Faze
  • Flurry
  • Fluster
  • Fret
  • Frighten
  • Get to
  • Give someone a hard time
  • Gnaw at
  • Harass
  • Hassle
  • Irk
  • Lie heavy on
  • Make anxious
  • Oppress
  • Perturb
  • Plague
  • Prey on one's mind
  • Rattle
  • Scare
  • Strain
  • Stress
  • Tax
  • Throw
  • Torment
  • Trouble
  • Unsettle
  • Upset
  • Vex
  • Weigh down
  • Weigh heavily on one's mind
  • Mess with someone's head

3. anxiety

  • Agitation
  • Angst
  • Anxiety
  • Apprehension
  • Bother
  • Butterflies (in the stomach)
  • Care
  • Concern
  • Disconcertment
  • Disquiet
  • Disquietude
  • Distress
  • Disturbance
  • Dread
  • Edginess
  • Fear
  • Fearfulness
  • Foreboding
  • Fretfulness
  • Jitteriness
  • Misgiving
  • Nerves
  • Nervousness
  • Perturbation
  • Restlessness
  • Strain
  • Stress
  • Tenseness
  • Tension
  • The heebie-jeebies
  • The jumps
  • The shakes
  • The willies
  • Trepidation
  • Trouble
  • Unease
  • Uneasiness
  • Upset
  • Twitchiness

4. problem

  • Bane
  • Bugbear
  • Burden
  • Cause for concern
  • Cross to bear
  • Cross
  • Hassle
  • Headache
  • Irritant
  • Irritation
  • Nuisance
  • Pain in the neck
  • Pain
  • Pest
  • Plague
  • Problem
  • Thorn in one's flesh/side
  • Trial
  • Tribulation
  • Trouble
  • Vexation
  • Stress