worryingadjective
uk/ˈwʌr.i.ɪŋ/us/ˈwɝː.i.ɪŋ/B2 making you feel unhappy and frightened:
It's a very worrying situation.
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- A worrying trend for insurers has been a rise in fraudulent claims.
- That's the most worrying aspect of the situation.
- By midweek, the situation had become worrying.
- He demonstrated a worrying naivety about political issues.
- I heard something rather worrying at work this morning.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Causing anxiety and worry
- alarming
- bite
- catch up with sb
- come back to bite sb idiom
- come back/home to roost idiom
- flap
- frighten sb/sth away/off
- get/go beyond a joke idiom
- give sb the jitters idiom
- gnaw
- harass
- joke
- suspenseful
- sweat
- tense
- troubling
- unnerve
- unsettling
- weigh
- weigh on sb/sth
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worryingly
adverb uk/ˈwʌr.i.ɪŋ.li/us/ˈwɝː.i.ɪŋ.li/
Worryingly, the gun was never found.