alarmed
adjUS /əˈlɑɹmd/ · UK /əˈlɑːmd/
1
Having an alarm fitted.
- This door is alarmed.
2
Worried; anxious; panicky.
- I'm extremely alarmed about the army outside my house.
- Thomas, the groom, in the act of drinking, put down the jug alarmed before his master. Thomas’s master felt the honour keenly.1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 2, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume I, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849, →OCLC:
- Derived terms
- alarmedly, nonalarmed, unalarmed