worry
Naija
Alternative forms
- understand 0.66 1148, tink 0.65 588, complain 0.64 431, feel 0.64 1488, think 0.64 2296, pain 0.64 627, fear 0.64 1340, disturb 0.63 183, careful 0.63 106
Etymology
English 'worry'.
Pronunciation
- wɔ́rì
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 30
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 352
- Frequency in raw corpus: 863
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 409
The word is used more orally than in written texts.
Adjective
worry: to trouble, be agitated, anxious -- Definition in Naija?
- Egbokhare
- I no dey worry myself sey e no come. — no translation
Derived forms
Synonymes
- understand 0.66 1148, tink 0.65 588, complain 0.64 431, feel 0.64 1488, think 0.64 2296, pain 0.64 627, fear 0.64 1340, disturb 0.63 183, careful 0.63 106
Antonymes
- understand 0.66 1148, tink 0.65 588, complain 0.64 431, feel 0.64 1488, think 0.64 2296, pain 0.64 627, fear 0.64 1340, disturb 0.63 183, careful 0.63 106
Translations
- English: to trouble, be agitated, anxious