alarmed

Speech parts

1. alarmed - Adjective

2. alarmed - Verb

4. alarmed - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Alarm

Aroused to vigilance; excited by fear of approaching danger; agitated; disturbed; as, an alarmed neighborhood; an alarmed modesty.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

concerned nervous afraid worried shocked troubled anxious fearful uneasy frightened horrified distressed astonished intimidated cowardly
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Antonyms

pacific dauntless gallant valiant daredevil even
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Phrases with the word

be alarmed alarmed at not alarmed

Examples

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. H. L. Mencken

What?” Simon looked alarmed. ”I‘m not really sleeping with your mom, you know. I was just trying to get your attention. Not that your mom isn't a very attractive woman for her age. Cassandra Clare

There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes. Henry David Thoreau

Do not be alarmed by simplification, complexity is often a device for claiming sophistication, or for evading simple truths. John Kenneth Galbraith

I have long been alarmed by people's sheeplike acceptance of the term ‘computer technology' - it sounds so objective and inexorable - when most computer technology is really a bunch of ideas turned into conventions and packages. Ted Nelson

The men are much alarmed by certain speculations about women; and well they may be, for when the horse and ass begin to think and argue, adieu to riding and driving. Adelaide Anne Procter

Close letter words and terms

alarm whistle alarm-raising alarmable alarmed at alarmedly alarmer