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[ uh-lahr-mist ] / əˈlɑr mɪst / SEE SYNONYMS FOR alarmist ON THESAURUS.COM
nouna person who tends to raise alarms, especially without sufficient reason, as by exaggerating dangers or prophesying calamities. Origin of alarmistFirst recorded in 1795–1805; alarm + -ist OTHER WORDS FROM alarmista·larm·ism, nounWords nearby alarmistAlaric, à la rigueur, alarm, alarm clock, alarming, alarmist, alarm reaction, alar spine, alarum, alarums and excursions, alary Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for alarmistBut no longer seen as alarmist, MSF are the heroes with GOAL, an Irish NGO, and the International Medical Corps among others. In Sierra Leone, the Plague Is Closing in Around Us|Ned Eustace|October 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST I agree, of course, that health advice is alarmist, and increasingly contradictory. If You're Fat You've Only Got Yourself to Blame|Emma Woolf|April 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST They're not, but the alarmist numbers are more likely to get media attention. Department of Awful Statistics: Are Mass Shootings Really On the Rise?|Megan McArdle|January 28, 2013|DAILY BEAST Brzezinski is by no means an alarmist of the “yellow-peril” strain in American history. Does America Still Matter? Zbigniew Brzezinski’s ‘Strategic Vision’|Harold Evans|July 6, 2012|DAILY BEAST
The best news for friends of Israel in the AIPAC speech is that Obama shares the alarmist view of an Iranian nuclear weapon. Obama's Eye for an Eye: Jerusalem for No Iranian Nukes|David Frum|March 5, 2012|DAILY BEAST Laying aside all alarmist talk and panicky solutions, let us put that knotty problem in its proper perspective. Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to 2006|Various An alarmist by nature, an aristocrat by party, he carried to an unreasonable excess his horror of popular turbulence. The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, Vol. 2 (of 4)|Thomas Babington Macaulay Price had drawn his alarmist conclusions from rough estimates founded on the revenue returns. Life of Adam Smith|John Rae He was no alarmist, but he knew only too well the meaning of a big general Indian rising. The Watchers of the Plains|Ridgewell Cullum A sudden access of fury on the part of the alarmist at the knocker, spurred them on with quaking hearts. The Black Bag|Louis Joseph Vance
British Dictionary definitions for alarmist
nouna person who alarms or attempts to alarm others needlessly or without due grounds a person who is easily alarmed adjectivecharacteristic of an alarmist Derived forms of alarmistalarmism, nounCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to alarmistpessimist, scaremonger |