Emotions
Synonyms for worry
Synonyms for worry: care, concern and fret. 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.
The 3 synonyms for worry
Interchangeable with worry in this sense
Audited under worry's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one worry carries in that sense.
- careverb, in the sense "be concerned with"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name worry as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
The first group is filed under worry's own sense. The second reach worry from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside them is that word's.
be concerned with
I worry about my grades.
The true synonym
care
Same sentence, swapped: I care about my grades.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- occupy
- vex
- matter
Where worry turns up in the game
worry is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where worry is the trap
- gloatverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is crow, in the sense "to feel or express smug pleasure about one's own success or another's failure", and worry is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play worry
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so worry reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from emotions at Foothills outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. worry carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.