alarming (a)

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type a
lex_filenum 00
def frightening because of an awareness of danger
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Attribute alarm, dismay, consternation
Antonym alarming → unalarming
Similar to appalling, dismaying; atrocious, frightful, horrifying, horrible, ugly; awful, dire, direful, dread(a), 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
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Similar to appalling, dismaying; atrocious, frightful, horrifying, horrible, ugly; awful, dire, direful, dread(a), 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
Antonym unalarming → alarming
Derived from adjective alarmingly → alarming
Attribute alarm, dismay, consternation

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