Emotions

Synonyms for worried

Synonyms for worried: upset and apprehensive. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.

2 synonyms · Tier 1, Foothills · 2 senses · adjective

The 2 synonyms for worried

upsetadjective, in the sense "afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief"
apprehensiveadjective, in the sense "mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc"

All two are filed under worried's own senses, one synonym per sense, each read by a human before it shipped.

Sense 1 of 2adjectiveTier 1, Foothills

afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief

One last worried check of the sleeping children.

The context the game gives you. The gloss above is for readers here, not for players there.

The true synonym

upset

Same sentence, swapped: One last upset check of the sleeping children.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where worried stands in the sentence above.

ragged
puzzled
dogged

Sense 2 of 2adjectiveTier 3, RidgelineEmotions

mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc

Not used to a city and worried about small things.

The sentence the game shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

The true synonym

apprehensive

Same sentence, swapped: Not used to a city and apprehensive about small things.

Close but different

The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.

embarrassed
distracted
haunted

Where worried turns up in the game

worried is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play worried

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Everything on it is a stored field, not a run-time composition.

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