English > alarming: 1 sense > adjective 1| Meaning | Frightening because of an awareness of danger. |
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| Attribute of | alarm, dismay, consternation | Fear resulting from the awareness of danger |
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| Narrower | appalling, dismaying | Causing consternation |
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| atrocious, frightful, horrifying, horrible, ugly | Provoking horror |
| awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible | Causing fear or dread or terror |
| baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening | threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments |
| bloodcurdling, hair-raising, nightmarish | Extremely alarming |
| chilling, scary, shivery, shuddery | Provoking fear terror |
| creepy, creepy-crawly | Causing a sensation as of things crawling on your skin |
| formidable, redoubtable, unnerving | inspiring fear |
| ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick | Shockingly repellent |
| hairy | hazardous and frightening |
| petrifying | paralyzing with terror |
| stupefying | shocking with surprise and consternation |
| terrific, terrifying | Causing extreme / extreme terror |
| Opposite | unalarming | not alarming |
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| Spanish | alarmante |
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| Catalan | alarmant |
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| Adverbs | alarmingly | in an alarming manner |
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