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Troubled or preoccupied by strong anxiety or existential unease.
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- angst-ridden narrator
- angst-ridden adolescence
- angst-ridden reflections
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The angst-ridden narrator questioned every decision she had made.
His letters became more angst-ridden as the departure approached.
An angst-ridden monologue replaced the confident speech he had planned.
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- angst-ridden
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Primary category: fear. Forms: Comparative more angst-ridden; superlative most angst-ridden. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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