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Worried vs Pissed - What's the difference?

worried | pissed |

As adjectives the difference between worried and pissed

is that worried is thinking about unpleasant things that have happened or that might happen; feeling afraid and unhappy while pissed is (uk|australia|new zealand|south africa|canada|colloquial) drunk.

As verbs the difference between worried and pissed

is that worried is (worry) while pissed is (piss).

worried

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Thinking about unpleasant things that have happened or that might happen; feeling afraid and unhappy.
  • She was worried about her son who had been sent off to fight in the war.

    Derived terms

    * unworried

    Verb

    (head)
  • (worry)
  • Derived terms

    * worriedly * worriedness

    Anagrams

    * *

    pissed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (piss)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada, colloquial) Drunk.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1996 , author=Hunter Davies , title=The Beatles , page=79 , passage=The waiters would send us up beer onstage as well as food, so now and again we'd end up getting pissed while we were playing.}}
  • * 2006 , Dean Riley, The Reveller: Every Lie Has Eighty Percent Truth , page 201,
  • We finished the bottle off and I was more pissed than ever, I was a fucking mess, and Johnny carried me to bed.
  • * 2008 , Terry Beresford, ''Shiner, page 24,
  • We drank, getting more and more pissed , and as we did, these four birds were growing more and more attractive, so we all sat down with them, but none of them wanted to know us, just Peter, dirty fucking bastard he was.
  • (US, Canada, vulgar, colloquial) Annoyed, angry.
  • * 1987 , Jeb Stuart, Steven E. DeSouza, , “Holly and Ginny” scene 287:
  • That one look pissed Ms. Gennero...
  • * 1989 , Judith Stiehm, Arms And The Enlisted Woman , page 255,
  • Some women were physically incapable, and the guys would say, “See, I told you women can?t hack it.” The more I saw of that, the more pissed I got, and the more determined I got to stick it out.
  • * 2009 , Steve Serby, No Substitute for Sundays: Brett Favre and His Year in the Huddle with the New York Jets , page xv,
  • So I was already pissed' at Bill to begin with, for what happened with the O?Donnell disaster the year before, and now I was even more ' pissed at the fuckin? guy.

    Usage notes

    In Canada, pissed'' can mean either ''drunk'' or ''angry''. The term pissed off is commonly used to unambiguously give the meaning ''angry .

    Synonyms

    * (drunk) drunk, intoxicated, bladdered, blotto, plastered, rat-arsed; see also * pissed off; see also

    See also

    * pissed as a newt