Definitions for alarmists

alarmists a·larm·ist

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

Alarmists is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 490 anagrams from letters in alarmists (aailmrsst).

Definitions for alarmists

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 alarmists

First recorded in 1795-1805; alarm + -ist

Examples for alarmists

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for alarmists
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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