alarming
Meaning of alarming
adjective
- worrying or disturbing.
our countryside is disappearing at an alarming rate
- make (someone) feel frightened, disturbed, or in danger.
- be fitted or protected with an alarm.
this door is locked and alarmed between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m
late Middle English (as an exclamation meaning ‘to arms!’): from Old French alarme, from Italian allarme, from all' arme! ‘to arms!’.
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Hyphenation of alarming
alarm-ing
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- alarming is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
alarming synonyms
Meaning make (someone) afraid or anxious:
Meaning cause great fear or nervousness in; frighten:
Meaning feel or cause to feel panic:
Meaning cause to feel sudden shock or alarm:
Meaning make (someone) lose courage or confidence:
Meaning cause (someone) anxiety, sorrow, or pain:
Meaning make (someone) troubled or nervous:
Meaning make (someone) unhappy, disappointed, or worried:
Meaning make (someone) agitated or confused:
Meaning disorder or disarrange (someone's hair), typically by running one's hands through it:
Meaning disturb the composure of; unsettle:
Meaning cause (someone) to feel surprised and upset:
Meaning make (someone) feel intimidated or apprehensive:
Meaning cause (someone) to feel concern and distress:
Meaning make (someone) anxious:
Meaning cause to feel extreme fear:
Meaning create and maintain a state of extreme fear and distress in (someone); fill with terror:
Meaning make (someone) so frightened that they are unable to move:
Meaning make or cause to make a rapid succession of short, sharp knocking sounds:
Meaning frighten; unnerve:
Meaning making someone afraid or anxious; terrifying:
Meaning very surprising, astonishing, or remarkable:
Meaning causing one to lose courage or confidence; disconcerting:
Meaning causing indignation or disgust; offensive:
Meaning causing anxiety, sorrow or pain; upsetting:
Meaning causing unhappiness, disappointment, or worry:
Meaning causing one to feel unsettled:
Meaning causing anxiety or concern; unsettling:
Meaning causing concern and distress:
Meaning inducing feelings of anxiety or worry:
Meaning seeming difficult to deal with in prospect; intimidating:
Meaning causing anxiety; worrying:
Meaning acutely distressing:
Meaning frightening, especially in appearance:
Meaning causing or involving great suffering, fear, or unhappiness; extremely bad or serious:
Meaning having the ugly or frightening appearance of a monster:
Meaning unfriendly or threatening in appearance:
Meaning causing shock or dismay; horrific:
Meaning horrifying or frightening:
Meaning causing extreme fear:
Meaning frightening; causing fear:
alarming antonyms
Meaning serving or intended to remove someone's doubts or fears:
Translation of alarming
- Italian: inquietante, allarmante
- German: beunruhigend
- Spanish: inquietante
- French: inquiétant
- Portuguese: inquietante
Anagrams of alarming
Words that rhyme with alarming
Ming, ming, Temiskaming, antifoaming, ashaming, balsaming, beaming, befoaming, bemadaming, benaming, beshaming, blaming, breaming, buckraming, caaming, coaming, creaming, daydreaming, defaming, defoaming, deprograming, diagraming, dreaming, enflaming, enframing, enseaming, entaming, faming, flaming, foaming, framing, gaming, gleaming, gloaming, goddaming, haming, hoaming, inbeaming, infaming, inflaming, inseaming, instreaming, laming, leaming, loaming, madaming, mainstreaming, misframing, misnaming, misprograming
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