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Word Meanings - ALARMED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Aroused to vigilance; excited by fear of approaching danger; agitated; disturbed; as, an alarmed neighborhood; an alarmed modesty. The white pavilions rose and fell On the alarmed air. Longfellow.

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  • ANXIOUSLY
    In an anxious manner; with painful uncertainty; solicitously.
  • APPREHENSIVENESS
    The quality or state of being apprehensive.
  • FEARFULNESS
    The state of being fearful.
  • ALARM
    1. A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy. Arming to answer in a night alarm. Shak. 2. Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warming sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger. Sound an alarm in
  • CAREFULLY
    In a careful manner.
  • ALARMABLE
    Easily alarmed or disturbed.
  • TIMIDITY
    The quality or state of being timid; timorousness; timidness.
  • TIMID
    Wanting courage to meet danger; easily frightened; timorous; not bold; fearful; shy. Poor is the triumph o'er the timid hare. Thomson. Syn. -- Fearful; timorous; afraid; cowardly; pusillanimous; faint- hearted; shrinking; retiring. -- Tim"id*ly,
  • ANXIOUSNESS
    The quality of being anxious; great solicitude; anxiety.
  • FRIGHTEN
    To disturb with fear; to throw into a state of alarm or fright; to affright; to terrify. More frightened than hurt. Old Proverb. (more info) Etym:
  • CAUTIOUSNESS
    The quality of being cautious.
  • SUSPICIOUS
    1. Inclined to suspect; given or prone to suspicion; apt to imagine without proof. Nature itself, after it has done an injury, will ever be suspicious; and no man can love the person he suspects. South. Many mischievous insects are daily at work
  • FEARFULLY
    In a fearful manner.
  • ALARMIST
    One prone to sound or excite alarms, especially, needless alarms. Macaulay.
  • FEARFUL
    1. Full of fera, apprehension, or alarm; afraid; frightened. Anxious amidst all their success, and fearful amidat all their power. Bp. Warburton. 2. inclined to fear; easily frightened; without courage; timid. What man is there that is fearful
  • TIMOROUS
    1. Fearful of danger; timid; deficient in courage. Shak. 2. Indicating, or caused by, fear; as, timorous doubts. "The timorous apostasy of chuchmen." Milman. -- Tim"or*ous*ly, adv. -- Tim"or*ous*ness, n.
  • TERRIFICALLY
    In a terrific manner.
  • TIMIDOUS
    Timid. Hudibras.
  • ALARMED
    Aroused to vigilance; excited by fear of approaching danger; agitated; disturbed; as, an alarmed neighborhood; an alarmed modesty. The white pavilions rose and fell On the alarmed air. Longfellow.
  • CAREFULNESS
    Quality or state of being careful.
  • INCAUTIOUS
    Not cautious; not circumspect; not attending to the circumstances on which safety and interest depend; heedless; careless; as, an incautious step; an incautious remark. You . . . incautious tread On fire with faithless embers overspread. Francis.
  • FATIMITE; FATIMIDE
    Descended from Fatima, the daughter and only child of Mohammed. -- n.
  • INTIMIDATORY
    Tending or serving to intimidate.
  • INTIMIDATE
    To make timid or fearful; to inspire of affect with fear; to deter, as by threats; to dishearten; to abash. Now guilt, once harbored in the conscious breast, Intimidates the brave, degrades the great. Johnson. Syn. -- To dishearten; dispirit; abash;
  • OVERANXIOUS
    Anxious in an excessive or needless degree. -- O"ver*anx"ious*ly, adv.
  • OVERCAREFUL
    Too careful. Shak.

 

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