"worry stone" meaning in English

See worry stone in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: worry stones [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} worry stone (plural worry stones)
  1. A small, smooth polished stone or crystal designed for people to rub with their thumb to alleviate stress or anxiety. Wikipedia link: worry stone Synonyms: thumb stone, palm stone, fidget stone, comfort stone, soothing stone
    Sense id: en-worry_stone-en-noun-hoB5pxSv Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for worry stone meaning in English (0.8kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "worry stones",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "worry stone (plural worry stones)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A small, smooth polished stone or crystal designed for people to rub with their thumb to alleviate stress or anxiety."
      ],
      "id": "en-worry_stone-en-noun-hoB5pxSv",
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "thumb stone"
        },
        {
          "word": "palm stone"
        },
        {
          "word": "fidget stone"
        },
        {
          "word": "comfort stone"
        },
        {
          "word": "soothing stone"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "worry stone"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "worry stone"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "worry stones",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "worry stone (plural worry stones)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A small, smooth polished stone or crystal designed for people to rub with their thumb to alleviate stress or anxiety."
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "worry stone"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "thumb stone"
    },
    {
      "word": "palm stone"
    },
    {
      "word": "fidget stone"
    },
    {
      "word": "comfort stone"
    },
    {
      "word": "soothing stone"
    }
  ],
  "word": "worry stone"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (210104c and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.