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| Main Entry: | troubled |
| Part of Speech: | adjective1 |
| Definition: | worried |
| Synonyms: | afraid, agitated, alarmed, annoyed, anxious, apprehensive, beset, bothered, concerned, confused, discombobulated*, disconcerted, displeased, distraught, distressed, disturbed, fearful, frightened, harried, irritated, miffed*, overwrought, pained, perplexed, perturbed, provoked, put out, puzzled, scared, shaken, terrified, uneasy, unsettled, upset, aggravated, anguished, chagrined, disquieted, exacerbated, flustered, harrowed, in a tizzy*, inconvenienced, irked, mortified, pestered, plagued, riled*, ruffled, tormented, tortured, vexed, worried stiff* |
| Antonyms: | calm, collected, composed, cool, peaceful, quiet, settled, untroubled, at ease |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | troubled |
| Part of Speech: | adjective2 |
| Definition: | psychologically disturbed |
| Synonyms: | crazy, cuckoo*, demented, disturbed, insane, loony*, mentally ill, neurotic, nuts*, psychopathic, psychotic, unhinged |
| Antonyms: | balanced, sane, sound |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | trouble |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bother, worry |
| Synonyms: | afflict, agitate, ail, annoy, bug*, burden, concern, discommode, discompose, disconcert, disoblige, disquiet, distress, disturb, flip out*, fret, grieve, harass, harry, inconvenience, irk, irritate, pain, perplex, perturb, pester, plague, put out*, sadden, spook*, strain, stress, torment, try, upset, vex, burn up*, drive up the wall, get to, give a bad time, give a hard time, impose on, make a fuss, make a scene, make waves, psych, stir up |
| Antonyms: | be content, be happy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | trouble |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make an effort |
| Synonyms: | exert, be concerned with, go to the effort of, take pains, take the time |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, help |
| Main Entry: | apprehensive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | anxious, fearful |
| Synonyms: | afraid, alarmed, concerned, doubtful, foreboding, frozen*, hung up*, jittery, jumpy, lily-livered*, shaky*, stiff, suspicious, troubled, uncertain, uneasy, uptight, weak, worried, biting nails, butterflies, disquieted, feel in bones, get vibes, have a hunch, have cold feet, have funny feeling, have stage fright, in a cold sweat, in a dither, in a sweat, jellyfish, mistrustful, running scared, scaredy-cat, worried sick |
| Antonyms: | calm, quiet, unafraid, at ease, undoubting, unfearful, unsuspicious, unworried |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | disconcerted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | confused; shaken |
| Synonyms: | annoyed, bewildered, distracted, disturbed, embarrassed, mixed-up, perturbed, thrown, troubled, unsettled, upset, caught off balance, come apart, fazed, flustered, in botheration, messed-up, nonplussed, out of countenance, psyched-out, rattled, ruffled, shook-up, spaced-out, taken aback, unglued, unzipped |
| Antonyms: | calm, composed, concerted, soothed, unworried |
| Main Entry: | distraught |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very upset, worked-up |
| Synonyms: | addled, agitated, anxious, beside oneself, bothered, concerned, confused, crazed*, crazy, discomposed, distracted, distrait, distressed, flustered, frantic, harassed, hysterical, in a panic, like a chicken with its head cut off, mad, muddled, nonplussed, nuts*, out of one's mind, overwrought, perturbed, rattled, raving, shook up, thrown, tormented, troubled, unglued, unscrewed, unzipped, wild, worried |
| Notes: | distrait means 'absent-minded as a result of apprehension, worry, etc.' while distraught means 'agitated' and 'bewildered, distracted' |
| Antonyms: | calm, gladdened, happy, pleased, untroubled |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | distressed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | upset |
| Synonyms: | afflicted, agitated, antsy, anxious, basket case*, bothered, concerned, cut up*, discombobulated*, disconsolate, distracted, distraught, fidgety, inconsolable, jittery, jumpy, miffed, peeved, perturbed, shaky, troubled, uptight*, wired, worried, wrecked, wretched, all torn up, bugged, bummed out, bundle of nerves, distrait, dragged, exercised, harassed, hyper, in a stew, in a tizzy, ripped, saddened, shook, shook up, shot down, spooked, strung out, tormented, unconsolable, unglued, up the wall |
| Antonyms: | calm, collected, glad, happy, joyful, comforted |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | downcast |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | depressed, unhappy |
| Synonyms: | bad, blue, cheerless, crestfallen, dejected, despondent, disappointed, disconsolate, discouraged, dispirited, distressed, doleful, down, downhearted, droopy, dull, forlorn, gloomy, glum, heartsick, listless, low, low-spirited, miserable, moody, morose, oppressed, sad, troubled, woebegone, brooding, bummed out, cast down, chapfallen, daunted, disheartened, dismayed, down in the dumps, down-in-the-mouth, dragged, in pain, mopey, shot down, singing the blues, sunk, weighed down |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, elated, glad, happy, satisfied, heartened |
| Main Entry: | grief-stricken |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sad, sorrowful |
| Synonyms: | cheerless, dejected, depressed, despairing, distressed, down, heartbroken, heartsick, heavyhearted, inconsolable, melancholy, miserable, morose, overcome, troubled, unhappy, woebegone, anguished, devastated, hurting |
| Main Entry: | harried |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pressured |
| Synonyms: | agitated, anxious, at wit's end, beset, bothered, distressed, harassed, hard-pressed, stressed, troubled, worried |
| Main Entry: | hot and bothered |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | upset |
| Synonyms: | disturbed, excited, troubled, aroused, flustered |
| Main Entry: | morose |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | depressed, pessimistic |
| Synonyms: | acrimonious, blue*, brusque, cantankerous, choleric, churlish, crabby*, cranky*, cross, dolorous, dour, down, down in the mouth*, frowning, gloomy, glum, grouchy, gruff, harsh, ill-tempered, irritable, low, melancholy, moody, mournful, perverse, sad, saturnine, snappish, sour, sulky, sullen, surly, taciturn, testy, troubled, ugly, crabbed, down in the dumps, having blue devils, having the blahs, ill-humored, in a bad mood, in a blue funk, moping, perversive, singing the blues, splenetic |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, friendly, happy, optimistic, light-hearted, uplifted |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | nervous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | anxious, fearful |
| Synonyms: | afraid, agitated, annoyed, apprehensive, basket case*, bothered, concerned, distressed, disturbed, edgy, excitable, fidgety, fitful, fussy*, hesitant, high-strung*, hysterical, irritable, jittery*, jumpy*, nervy*, neurotic, on edge*, overwrought, querulous, restive, sensitive, shaky*, shrinking, shy, skittish, snappish, solicitous, taut, tense, timid, timorous, troubled, uneasy, unstrung, upset, uptight, volatile, weak, wired*, worried, flustered, ruffled, spooked, twitchy, unrestful |
| Antonyms: | brave, calm, unafraid, unnervous, unworried |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | obsessed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | consumed, driven about belief, desire |
| Synonyms: | beset, bewitched, dogged*, engrossed, fiendish, haunted, held, hooked, infatuated, into*, possessed, preoccupied, prepossessed, seized, troubled, bedeviled, captivated, controlled, dominated, eat sleep and breathe, fixated, gripped, harassed, have on the brain, hung up on, immersed in, overpowered, plagued, really into, taken over, tied up, tormented, turned on, up to here in, wound up with, wrapped up in |
| Antonyms: | indifferent, unconcerned |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pessimistic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | expecting bad outcome |
| Synonyms: | bleak, cynical, dark, dejected, depressed, despairing, despondent, discouraged, distrustful, downhearted, foreboding, gloomy, glum, hopeless, melancholy, misanthropic, morbid, morose, resigned, sad, sullen, troubled, worried, fatalistic |
| Antonyms: | confident, optimistic, trusting |
| Main Entry: | queasy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not feeling well; not comfortable |
| Synonyms: | anxious, concerned, fidgety, groggy, ill, ill at ease, indisposed, nauseated, queer, restless, rocky*, sick, sickly, squeamish, troubled, uncertain, uncomfortable, under the weather*, uneasy, unwell, upset, worried, bilious, green around gills, pukish, qualmish, sick as a dog |
| Antonyms: | comfortable, healthy, satisfied |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | restless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not content; moving about |
| Synonyms: | active, agitated, antsy*, anxious, changeable, disturbed, edgy, fidgety, fitful, footloose*, fretful, hurried, ill at ease, inconstant, intermittent, irresolute, itchy*, jumpy, nervous, nomadic, on edge, perturbed, restive, roving, sleepless, spasmodic, transient, troubled, turbulent, uneasy, unruly, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, wandering, worried, bundle of nerves, bustling, fidgeting, strung out, tossing and turning, unpeaceful, unquiet, unrestful |
| Antonyms: | agitated, jumpy, nervous, restive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sleepless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | insomniac, restless |
| Synonyms: | active, alert, antsy*, anxious, edgy, fidgety, jumpy, nervous, on edge, troubled, unsettled, wakeful, wide-awake, wired*, worried, bustling, fidgeting, strung out, tossing and turning |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | solicitous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | worried |
| Synonyms: | anxious, apprehensive, ardent, attentive, avid, beside oneself, careful, concerned, devoted, eager, earnest, heedful, impatient, keen, loving, mindful, raring, regardful, tender, thirsty, troubled, uneasy, zealous, appetent, athirst, caring, worried sick, worried stiff |
| Antonyms: | laid-back, unafraid, easy-going, unworried |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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