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Definition of Alarmingly
1. Adverb. In an alarming manner. "It grew alarmingly fast"
Definition of Alarmingly
1. Adverb. In an alarming way, frighteningly. ¹
2. Adverb. Causing fear or concern. ¹
3. Adverb. To an extent that causes alarm. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Alarmingly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alarmingly
Literary usage of Alarmingly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution: With an by Lorenzo Sabine (1864)
"Resignations upon Discreditable Pretexts, and alarmingly prevalent. The Public
Mind fickle, and Disastrous Changes in Congress. ..."
2. Letters of Charles Dickens to Wilkie Collins by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Georgina Hogarth (1891)
"You will have read about poor Thackeray's death—sudden, and yet not sudden, for
he had long been alarmingly ill. At the solicitation of Mr. Smith and some ..."
3. Eminent British Lawyers by Henry Roscoe (1830)
"In Hilary term he came up to town, for the purpose of attending his duties in
court, but again became alarmingly ill, with symptoms of drowsiness and stupor ..."
4. Personal Recollections of Thomas De Quincey by John Ritchie Findlay (1886)
"A month after this he was again alarmingly ill —see Page, vol. 2, p. 94.
APPENDIX CP 57. There is a lapse here in my notes which may be appropriately ..."
5. Notices of Brazil in 1828 and 1829 by Robert Walsh (1831)
"Empress taken alarmingly ill.—Means resorted to for her Recovery.—Affecting
Anecdotes of her amiable Disposition.—Revolting Conduct of her Camareira Death ..."
6. The Queens of England and Their Times: From Matilda, Queen of William the by Francis Lancelott (1858)
"In tho spring of 1645, Henrietta bc- I came so alarmingly ill, that her life was
despaired of. Charles therefore addressed his letters to her confidential ..."
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