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worrier

[ wur-ee-er, wuhr- ]

noun

  1. a person who tends to fret or be tormented by anxious or disturbing thoughts:

    As an obsessive worrier, I often sense danger where others sense nothing.



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Blair calls himself “absolutely a long-term optimist” about peace in the Middle East, but “absolutely a short-term worrier.”

Already too thin and always a chronic worrier, photos show the first lady visibly smaller in the months after the shooting.

The superintendent of a division of line the far side of the Missouri was a worrier, and was personally watching the progress.

In advising the constitutional worrier the chief trouble the physician finds is an active opposition on the part of the patient.

These physical characteristics suggest the makings of a first class "fuss" and inveterate worrier.

The worrier must learn to realize that he is looking at his sensations, as he does everything else, through a microscope.

There is no more danger of insanity attacking the worrier and the delicate than the robust and the indifferent.

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