alarmingadjective
uk/əˈlɑː.mɪŋ/us/əˈlɑːr.mɪŋ/C1 causing worry or fear:
alarming news
There has been an alarming rise in the rate of inflation.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Causing anxiety and worry
- bite
- catch up with sb
- come back to bite sb idiom
- come back/home to roost idiom
- concerning
- flap
- get/go beyond a joke idiom
- give sb the jitters idiom
- gnaw
- harass
- haunt
- joke
- sweat
- tense
- troubling
- unnerve
- unsettling
- weigh
- weigh on sb/sth
- weigh sb down
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alarmingly
adverb uk/əˈlɑː.mɪŋ.li/us/əˈlɑːr.mɪŋ.li/
Alarmingly, the hole in the ozone layer has doubled in size this year.