alarming
adjUK /əˈlɑːm.ɪŋ/ · US /əˈlɑɹm.ɪŋ/
1
Causing apprehension, fear or alarm; frightening.
- Another stop at the 731-yard Sharpthorne Tunnel allowed the apprentices to see how a combination of water and a "chemical soup" is destroying the rails at an alarming rate.2024 March 20, Richard Foster, “Vital experience in an open-air classroom”, in RAIL, number 1005, page 60:
- Synonyms
- concerning, distressful, distressing, troubling, worrisome, worrying, alarming, nagging, unsettling
- Antonyms
- comforting
- Derived terms
- alarmingly, alarmingness, nonalarming, unalarming
- Related terms
- agonize, distress, hopelessness
- Hypernyms
- moving, unpleasant
- Coordinate terms
- agonizing, frightening, lamentable