WORRIMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does worriment mean? 

• WORRIMENT (noun)
  The noun WORRIMENT has 1 sense:

1. a difficulty that causes anxiety

  Familiarity information: WORRIMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WORRIMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A difficulty that causes anxiety

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

inconvenience; troublesomeness; worriment

Hypernyms ("worriment" is a kind of...):

difficultness; difficulty (the quality of being difficult)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "worriment"):

awkwardness; cumbersomeness; unwieldiness (trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape)

flea bite (a very minor inconvenience)

fly in the ointment (an inconvenience that detracts from the usefulness of something)

unwieldiness (the quality of being difficult to direct or control by reason of complexity)

Derivation:

worry (be worried, concerned, anxious, troubled, or uneasy)