Alarmist

/əˈlɑɹmɪst/

Synonyms for "alarmist" (18 found)

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Closest matches (4)

Noun(1 words)
Adjective(1 words)
coercive rhetoric

Strong matches (5)

Related words (9)

Related word relations

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More general

5 entries
communicatorevaluative descriptorhumanpejorative adjectiveperson

More specific

8 entries
alarmist claimalarmist forecastalarmist framingalarmist projectionalarmist rhetoricalarmist warningcatastrophistdoom monger

Collocations

9 entries
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Inflections

3 entries
alarmistsmore alarmistmost alarmist

Derivations

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Sample sentences

3 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

I don't mean to be an alarmist, but I do think you should prepare yourself for the worst.

Source: wiktionary

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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