worrywart

American  

[wur-ee-wawrt, wuhr-] / ˈwɜr iˌwɔrt, ˈwʌr- /

noun

1. a person who tends to worry habitually and often needlessly; pessimist; fussbudget.

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Etymology

Origin of worrywart

First recorded in 1930–35; worry + wart

Example Sentences

In the financial crisis of 2008-09, the investment bank Goldman Sachs had a secret weapon: Its CEO, Lloyd Blankfein, was a lifelong worrywart with plenty of tricks for calming his own frazzled nerves.

From The Wall Street Journal

“We are realists, but we are not worrywarts either,” he said.

From MarketWatch

So I think there’ll be this raised consciousness, but there will still be this view that risk managers are cautious worrywarts.

From Scientific American

This medium, which humanity progressed without for 10 millennia, suddenly seemed to some worrywarts as vital as oxygen and proteins, and as perishable as the planet.

From Washington Post

“I’m sorry I was such a worrywart,” she said one day as I was doing her baking.

From Literature

Related Words

• cynic
• worrier