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A person who tends to worry excessively, especially over minor or unlikely problems.
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- such a worrywart
- call someone a worrywart
- a lifelong worrywart
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Her brother called her a worrywart for checking the tickets twice.
The household’s worrywart had already planned for a canceled train.
He laughed at being a worrywart, but still packed a spare key.
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Primary category: fear. Forms: Singular worrywart; plural worrywarts. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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