Alarming
Alarming adjective - Causing fear.
Usage example: an alarming rise in her fever, causing the doctor to fear the worst
Threatening is a synonym for alarming. In some cases you can use "Threatening" instead an adjective "Alarming".
Threatening
Threatening adjective - Threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments.
Usage example: his threatening behavior
Alarming is a synonym for threatening in menacing topic. You can use "Alarming" instead an adjective "Threatening".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- disturbing and alarming
- disturbing and threatening
- forbidding and alarming
- forbidding and threatening
- baleful and alarming
- baleful and threatening
- sinister and alarming
- sinister and threatening
- dangerous and alarming
- dangerous and threatening
- ugly and alarming
- ugly and threatening
- black and alarming
- black and threatening
Both words in one sentence
- One episode of The Men from the Ministry opens with One and Two talking about a alarming national catastrophe that's threatening entire nation's pride.
Source: Not So Dire - Not So Dire: One episode opens with One and Two talking about an alarming national catastrophe that's threatening entire nation's pride.
- Subverted in the War of the Spider Queen series, where not only does Quenthel have no antidote to the poison she administers to a traitorous student, it is not even a poison per se, but rather an alarming-but-non-life-threatening overdose of alertness potion.
Source: Carrying the Antidote
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