I don't mean to be an alarmist, but I do think you should prepare yourself for the worst.
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Alarmist
//əˈlɑɹmɪst//
Synonyms for "alarmist" (7 found)
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Noun(1 words)
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Noun(2 words)
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28 translations across 12 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- паникьо́р noun (one who causes others to become alarmed without cause)
Catalan
1 entries- alarmista noun (one who causes others to become alarmed without cause)
Czech
2 entries- alarmistický adj (of or relating to causing others to become alarmed without cause)
- alarmista noun (one who causes others to become alarmed without cause)
Esperanto
2 entries- alarmistino noun (one who causes others to become alarmed without cause)
- alarmisto noun (one who causes others to become alarmed without cause)
Finnish
2 entries- alarmisti noun (one who causes others to become alarmed without cause)
- pelon lietsoja noun (one who causes others to become alarmed without cause)
French
1 entries- alarmiste noun (one who causes others to become alarmed without cause)
Galician
1 entries- alarmista noun (one who causes others to become alarmed without cause)
German
4 entries- Alarmist noun (one who causes others to become alarmed without cause)
- Alarmistin noun (one who causes others to become alarmed without cause)
- Angstmacher noun (one who causes others to become alarmed without cause)
- Angstmacherin noun (one who causes others to become alarmed without cause)
Polish
4 entries- alarmistyczny adj (of or relating to causing others to become alarmed without cause)
- alarmista noun (one who causes others to become alarmed without cause)
- panikarka noun (one who causes others to become alarmed without cause)
- panikarz noun (one who causes others to become alarmed without cause)
Portuguese
1 entries- alarmista noun (one who causes others to become alarmed without cause)
Russian
4 entries- аларми́ст noun (one who causes others to become alarmed without cause)
- аларми́стка noun (one who causes others to become alarmed without cause)
- паникёр noun (one who causes others to become alarmed without cause)
- паникёрша noun (one who causes others to become alarmed without cause)
Spanish
1 entries- alarmista noun (one who causes others to become alarmed without cause)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
No German troops were mobilized along Canada's border last week, no Canadian cities had been bombed, and only by the remotest flight of fancy could alarmists see the Dominion as a battleground.
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This deliberately alarmist scaremongery has since been repeated on various occasions, notably in Brazil before 1964 and in Chile under Allende.
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