Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person who needlessly alarms others, as by spreading exaggerated rumors of impending danger.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who excites alarm; one who is prone to raise an alarm, as by exaggerating bad news or prophesying calamities, particularly in regard to political or social matters.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One prone to sound or excite alarms, especially, needless alarms.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who causes others to become
alarmed without cause.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who alarms others needlessly
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word alarmist.
Examples
-
It is already really hard to justify the huge sensitivities in alarmist forecasts based on past warming — if past warming is lower, forecasts look even more absurd.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Why the Historical Warming Numbers Matter 2009
-
Just to be clear, being alarmist is not my nature nor how I write my posts.
-
When The Population Bomb was published in 1968, there were 3.5 billion people, and we were called alarmist -- technology could feed, house, clothe, educate, and provide great lives to even 5 billion people.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Paul 2011
-
It's not fun being called an "alarmist nutball," and often we are accused of pursuing something akin to religious zealotry.
Kelly Rigg: Climate Rapture: Creating a Heavenly Future Here on Earth Kelly Rigg 2011
-
It's not fun being called an "alarmist nutball," and often we are accused of pursuing something akin to religious zealotry.
Kelly Rigg: Climate Rapture: Creating a Heavenly Future Here on Earth Kelly Rigg 2011
-
It's not fun being called an "alarmist nutball," and often we are accused of pursuing something akin to religious zealotry.
Kelly Rigg: Climate Rapture: Creating a Heavenly Future Here on Earth Kelly Rigg 2011
-
She was even called an alarmist by some, but through it all she stayed the course.
Vince Flynn Collectors’ Edition #2 Vince Flynn 2010
-
She was even called an alarmist by some, but through it all she stayed the course.
Vince Flynn Collectors’ Edition #2 Vince Flynn 2010
-
She was even called an alarmist by some, but through it all she stayed the course.
Vince Flynn Collectors’ Edition #2 Vince Flynn 2010
-
She was even called an alarmist by some, but through it all she stayed the course.
Vince Flynn Collectors’ Edition #2 Vince Flynn 2010
dontcry commented on the word alarmist
We had one of these in my freshman dorm. She alarmed us night after night, with the fire alarm, for weeks on end before finally getting caught.
July 3, 2009