Synonyms of alarming

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adjective

as in terrifying

causing fear

an alarming rise in her fever, causing the doctor to fear the worst

Synonyms & Similar Words

• terrifying
• frightening
• scary
• formidable
• horrible
• terrible
• intimidating
• shocking
• startling
• horrifying
• dread
• fearful
• eerie
• dreadful
• troubling
• creepy
• disturbing
• dire
• ghastly
• frightful
• direful
• gruesome
• horrendous
• forbidding
• fearsome
• disconcerting
• spine-chilling
• eery
• threatening
• redoubtable
• unnerving
• dismaying
• trying
• discouraging
• hair-raising
• disquieting
• perturbing
• daunting
• demoralizing
• distressing
• weird
• hideous
• appalling
• grisly
• nightmarish
• macabre
• awful
• horrid
• monstrous
• bone-chilling
• atrocious
• grewsome

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• reassuring
• comforting
• soothing
• calming
• relaxing
• inviting
• consoling
• tranquilizing
• quieting
• nonthreatening
• tranquillizing
• lulling
• pacifying
• nonintimidating

alarming

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verb

variants also alaruming

present participle of alarm

1

as in frightening

to strike with fear

I don't want to alarm you, but I think you should know there's a bear on your back porch

Synonyms & Similar Words

• frightening
• scaring
• shocking
• spooking
• terrifying
• horrifying
• startling
• worrying
• panicking
• terrorizing
• scarifying
• frighting
• appalling
• affrighting
• upsetting
• dismaying
• astounding
• amazing
• shaking
• making one's flesh crawl
• disconcerting
• distressing
• giving one the creeps
• making one's flesh creep
• disquieting
• unnerving
• unsettling
• daunting
• dispiriting
• distracting
• discomforting
• jolting
• awing
• shaking up
• perturbing
• emasculating
• bowling over
• demoralizing
• disturbing
• chilling
• psyching (out)
• undoing
• flooring
• unmanning
• discomposing
• unstringing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• reassuring
• comforting
• assuring
• soothing
• cheering
• consoling
• encouraging
• inspiring
• solacing
• heartening
• emboldening
• steeling

2

as in worrying

to trouble the mind of; to make uneasy

alarmed at the skyrocketing cost of home heating fuel

Synonyms & Similar Words

• worrying
• dismaying
• distressing
• concerning
• upsetting
• disturbing
• disquieting
• unsettling
• discomforting
• annoying
• perturbing
• angering
• distracting
• bothering
• agitating
• unhinging
• ailing
• derailing
• exercising
• undoing
• freaking (out)
• exasperating
• irritating
• fussing
• aggravating
• discomposing
• getting
• confusing
• flurrying
• disconcerting
• frazzling
• distempering
• vexing
• embarrassing
• weirding out
• hagriding
• harassing
• galling
• haunting
• irking
• bugging
• nettling
• jarring
• disheartening
• pestering
• mortifying
• discomfiting
• plaguing
• fretting
• unnerving
• harrying
• riling
• chafing
• discouraging
• confounding
• grating
• bedeviling
• piquing
• daunting
• dispiriting
• putting off
• rattling
• putting out
• peeving
• demoralizing
• chivvying
• chivying
• discountenancing
• shaking up
• flustering
• abashing
• nonplussing
• fazing
• nonplusing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• soothing
• calming
• quieting
• composing
• settling
• tranquilizing
• alleviating
• allaying
• tranquillizing
• assuaging
• pacifying
• appeasing
• mollifying
• conciliating
• placating
• propitiating