harriedEnglishOxford American Thesaurusharried adjective it was full of harried women with crying children: harassed, hard-pressed, beleaguered, agitated, flustered, bothered, troubled, distressed, vexed, beset, hagridden, hounded, plagued, tormented; informal hassled, up against it; British, informal under the cosh. ▷antonyms untroubled.