worrisomer

Adjective

worrisome (comparative more worrisome or (rare, nonstandard) worrisomer, superlative most worrisome or (rare, nonstandard) worrisomest)

1. Causing worry; perturbing or vexing.
   • He ’s got a cow, too; she ’s got the worrisomest horns ever was. I believe she ’s a steer anyway.1909 February 6, Frances Boyd Calhoun, “Sweetheart and Partner”, in Miss Minerva and William Green Hill, Chicago, Ill.: The Reilly & Britton Co., published 16 February 1909, page 35

   Synonyms:

   worryful

2. Inclined to worry.
   • I use to would perform that song when I was singin in Chance’s band. We had a real sweet, dreamy, Dinah Washington-kinda arrangement of it that’d make even the worrisomest drunk pipe down and listen.1988, Al Young, chapter 14, in Seduction by Light, New York, N.Y.: Delta Fiction, →ISBN, page 128