Worried vs Troubled - What's the difference?
worried | troubled |
Thinking about unpleasant things that have happened or that might happen; feeling afraid and unhappy.
(worry)
Anxious, worried, careworn.
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*:Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
(trouble)
As adjectives the difference between worried and troubled
is that worried is thinking about unpleasant things that have happened or that might happen; feeling afraid and unhappy while troubled is anxious, worried, careworn.As verbs the difference between worried and troubled
is that worried is past tense of worry while troubled is past tense of trouble.worried
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- She was worried about her son who had been sent off to fight in the war.