Synonyms:
distressing, distressful, disturbing, perturbing, troubling, worrisome, worrying
Meaning: causing distress or worry or anxiety; "distressing (or disturbing) news"; "lived in heroic if something distressful isolation"; "a disturbing amount of crime"; "a revelation that was most perturbing"; "a new and troubling thought"; "in a particularly worrisome predicament"; "a worrying situation"; "a worrying time"
Usage examples
What's the use worrying?"
It is a simple, worrying brain.
Dorothy was not worrying, especially.
Her worrying ways were all forgotten now.
Here Fyodor Pavlovitch will get up directly and begin worrying me every minute, 'Has she come?
And, in fact, since that time he began to suffer from fever, from liver pains, and mostly from a worrying inability to think of anything else.
On entering they saw the body of a man hanging half in and half out of their little window, whom the dog had seized by the throat, and was still worrying.
I saw a squaw looking at you and saying 'heap dam dood,' so if you want to keep your station in society you've got to dance." Haskins was again worrying them.
But Lucy in such matters was content to follow him, aware of her want of experience and of the abundance of his, and the thought that was worrying her only had to do with a waiter.
If you miss her and don't let me know she's been--I'll kill you before any one.' When the night's over, in the morning, he, too, like Fyodor Pavlovitch, begins worrying me to death.