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Definition of Alarming
1. Adjective. Frightening because of an awareness of danger.
Similar to: Appalling, Dismaying, Atrocious, Frightful, Horrible, Horrifying, Ugly, Awful, Dire, Direful, Dread, Dreaded, Dreadful, Fearful, Fearsome, Frightening, Horrendous, Horrific, Terrible, Baleful, Forbidding, Menacing, Minacious, Minatory, Ominous, Sinister, Threatening, Bloodcurdling, Hair-raising, Nightmarish, Chilling, Scarey, Scary, Shivery, Shuddery, Creepy, Creepy-crawly, Formidable, Redoubtable, Unnerving, Ghastly, Grim, Grisly, Gruesome, Macabre, Sick, Hairy, Petrifying, Stupefying, Terrific, Terrifying
Antonyms: Unalarming
Definition of Alarming
1. a. Exciting, or calculated to excite, alarm; causing apprehension of danger; as, an alarming crisis or report. -- A*larm"ing*ly, adv.
Definition of Alarming
1. Verb. (present participle of alarm) ¹
2. Adjective. causing apprehension, fear or alarm; frightening ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Alarming
1. alarm [v] - See also: alarm
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alarming
Literary usage of Alarming
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"blindness, and I still hope that I may be saved from that great calamity, though
there are alarming indications, increasing rather than diminishing, ..."
2. The Friend of Peace by Noah Worcester, Massachusetts Peace Society (1821)
"24,1819, have presented to the public some facts which may justly be regarded as
lamentable and alarming j among which arc the following:— ..."
3. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the by James Terry White (1895)
"On June 16th of that year the progress of his disease became so alarming that the
... On July 21st an alarming relapse set in, and from that time the entire ..."
4. The Growth of British Policy: An Historical Essay by John Robert Seeley (1895)
"These designs of Louis were the more alarming because his power was so vast and
... James in England assumed a position equally alarming as far as his own ..."
5. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1900)
"OPERATION FOR APPENDICITIS ATTENDED BY alarming HEMORRHAGE CONTROLLED BY HAEMOSTATIC
FORCEPS LEFT ON THE VESSEL. By the courtesy of my colleague, ..."
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