思い悩む

Japanese

Kanji in this term
思 悩
おも
Grade: 2		 なや
Grade: S
kun’yomi

Verb

思い悩む (transitive, godan conjugation, hiragana おもいなやむ, rōmaji omoinayamu)

  1. worry about, fret about
    • 1932, Motojirō Kajii, のんきな患者:
      吉田 (よしだ)はこれまで一度 (いちど)もそんな経 (けい)験 (けん)をしたことがなかったので、そんなときは第一 (だいいち)にその不 (ふ)安 (あん)の原 (げん)因 (いん)に思 (おも)い悩 (なや)むのだった。
      Yoshida wa koremade ichido mo sonna keiken o shita koto ga nakatta node, sonna toki wa daiichi ni sono fuan no gen'in ni omoinayamu no datta.
      What worried Yoshida more than anything else was that he had never experienced anything like that before.

Synonyms

  • 思 (おも)い煩 (わずら)う (omoiwazurau)

References

  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.
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