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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who worries or harasses (himself or others); one who is given to worrying or who harasses with anxious forebodings.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who worries.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A person who worries a great deal, especially unnecessarily.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun thinks about unfortunate things that might happen

Etymologies

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worry +‎ -er

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