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Worried vs Troubled - What's the difference?

worried | troubled |

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)
  • 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

    * *

    troubled

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Anxious, worried, careworn.
  • *
  • *: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.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (trouble)