- harried
- adjectivetroubled persistently especially with petty annoyances-
harassed working mothers
-a harried expression
-her poor pestered father had to endure her constant interruptions
-the vexed parents of an unruly teenager
• Similar to: ↑troubled* * *
adjworried, anxious, agitated, troubled, bothered, distressed, harassed, hard-pressed, pressured, pressurized, plagued, tormented, ravaged, besetCOLLOQ. hassled* * *
▶ adjective HARASSED, beleaguered, flustered, agitated, bothered, vexed, beset, plagued; informal hassled, up against it.* * *
adjective: beset by disturbing problems or anxieties : harassedas harried as innkeepers coping with a full house — Mary McGrory
a rather harried journalist trying to produce a maximum of copy — Edmund Wilson
Useful english dictionary. 2012.