Definitions for alarmist

alarmist a·larm·ist

Spelling: [uh-lahr-mist]
IPA: /əˈlɑr mɪst/

Alarmist is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 410 anagrams from letters in alarmist (aailmrst).

Definitions for alarmist

noun

  1. a person who tends to raise alarms, especially without sufficient reason, as by exaggerating dangers or prophesying calamities.

adjective

  1. of or like an alarmist.

Origin of alarmist

First recorded in 1795-1805; alarm + -ist

Examples for alarmist

I am no alarmist and I do not presume to say that there will be serious trouble.

In short, he acted as an alarmist, not as a dispenser of justice.

The best news for friends of Israel in the AIPAC speech is that Obama shares the alarmist view of an Iranian nuclear weapon.

"Watch the depots," was the unanimous cry that followed this alarmist statement.

But no longer seen as alarmist, MSF are the heroes with GOAL, an Irish NGO, and the International Medical Corps among others.

I agree, of course, that health advice is alarmist, and increasingly contradictory.

They're not, but the alarmist numbers are more likely to get media attention.

Oh, I was afraid of appearing an alarmist, and I thought it might be only a patrol.

Then he swore at the alarmist: "You blamed monkey," he pointed to the cottonwood.

Brzezinski is by no means an alarmist of the “yellow-peril” strain in American history.

Word Value for alarmist
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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