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Synonyms for alarming

Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb alarm

Sense 1:

dismay, alarm, appal, appall, horrify
frighten, fright, scare, affright

Sense 2:

alarm, alert
warn

Similarity of adj alarming

1 sense of alarming

Sense 1:

alarming (vs. unalarming)
appalling, dismayingatrocious, frightful, horrifying, horrible, uglyawful, dire, direful, dread(prenominal), dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terriblebaleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threateningbloodcurdling, hair-raising, nightmarishchilling, scarey, scary, shivery, shudderycreepy, creepy-crawlyformidable, redoubtable, unnervingghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sickhairypetrifyingstupefyingterrific, terrifying