alarmist

From alarm +‎ -ist.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˈlɑɹmɪst/

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alarmist (plural alarmists)

1. One who causes others to become alarmed without cause.

   Synonyms: fearmonger, panicmonger, scaremonger

   I don't mean to be an alarmist, but I do think you should prepare yourself for the worst.

   • 1939 November 20, “Canadian Secrecy”, in Time:

     No German troops were mobilized along Canada's border last week, no Canadian cities had been bombed, and only by the remotest flight of fancy could alarmists see the Dominion as a battleground.

• alarm
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alarmist

1. Of or relating to causing others to become alarmed without cause.
   • 1979, Peter Flynn, Brazil: a political analysis, →ISBN, page 186:

     This deliberately alarmist scaremongery has since been repeated on various occasions, notably in Brazil before 1964 and in Chile under Allende.

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Borrowed from French alarmiste

• IPA^(key): /aː.lɑrˈmɪst/

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• Hyphenation: alar‧mist
• Rhymes: -ɪst

alarmist m (plural alarmisten, diminutive alarmistje n)

1. alarmist

Borrowed from French alarmiste.

alarmist m (plural alarmiști, feminine equivalent alarmistă)

1. alarmist