a. [f. WORRY sb. or v. + -SOME1.] Apt to cause worry or distress; given to worrying.
1869. Blackmore, Lorna D., xlv. I must give orders … that you come in at once, with that worrisome cough of yours.
1882. H. C. Merivale, Faucit of B., II. I. xix. 43. Which is likely … to become before long the highest good of these worrisome days.
1893. Harper’s Mag., Dec., 61/1. The best an’ the most worrisome woman thet God ever made.
So Worrisomely adv.
a. 1699. J. Beaumont, Psyche, XIX. vii. How worrisomly cross and peevish were Thy feeble years.
