WORRIMENT

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A difficulty that causes anxiety

Synonyms:

inconvenience; troublesomeness; worriment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("worriment" is a kind of...):

difficultness; difficulty (the quality of being difficult)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "worriment"):

awkwardness; cumbersomeness; unwieldiness (trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape)

flea bite (a very minor inconvenience)

fly in the ointment (an inconvenience that detracts from the usefulness of something)

unwieldiness (the quality of being difficult to direct or control by reason of complexity)

Derivation:

worry (be worried, concerned, anxious, troubled, or uneasy)