alarmist

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a·larm·ist

(ə-lär′mĭst)

A person who needlessly alarms others, as by spreading exaggerated rumors of impending danger.

a·larm′ism n.

alarmist

(əˈlɑːmɪst)

1. a person who alarms or attempts to alarm others needlessly or without due grounds

2. a person who is easily alarmed

adj

characteristic of an alarmist

aˈlarmism n

a•larm•ist

(əˈlɑr mɪst)

n.

1. a person who tends to raise alarms, esp. without sufficient reason.

adj.

2. of or like an alarmist.

[1795–1805]

a•larm′ism, n.

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Noun

alarmist - a person who alarms others needlessly

communicator - a person who communicates with others

scaremonger, stirrer - a person who spreads frightening rumors and stirs up trouble

alarmist

adjective fatalistic, pessimistic, scaremongering some of the more alarmist reports

alarmist

noun

One who needlessly alarms others:

scaremonger.

Translations

allarmista

alarmist

[əˈlɑːmɪst]

A. ADJ → alarmista

B. N → alarmista mf

alarmist

[əˈlɑː^rmɪst] n → alarmiste mfalarm signal n → signal m d'alarmealarm system n → système m d'alarme

alarmist

n → Panikmacher(in) m(f), → Kassandra f (geh)

adj speech → Unheil prophezeiend attr; politician → Panik machend attr

alarmist

[əˈlɑːmɪst] n → allarmista m/f

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I had, however, the less diffidence in that it would have a technical interest for her, being indeed no other than a song of cycling a deux which had been suggested by one of those alarmist danger-posts always placed at the top of the pleasantest hills, sternly warning the cyclist that "this hill is dangerous,"--just as in life there is always some minatory notice-board frowning upon us in the direction we most desire to take.

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However, I don't want to depress you and play the alarmist so soon after your return to London.

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The far-famed secret agent [delta] of the late Baron Stott-Wartenheim's alarmist despatches was not the man to break into such mysteries.

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The other day I read in some paper or other an alarmist article on the tireless activity of the revolutionary parties.

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Come with me to Aldershot next week, and I will show you that those who say that we have no army are ignorant alarmists.

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Though not an alarmist, the author wonders what the ramifications would be today of such a sudden change of climate.

The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future

com), which linked to dozens of alarmist Y2K articles.

FALSE PROPHETS, REAL PROFITS

However, he admitted that while drafting it the team was "mindful of the disastrous consequences of an alarmist report".

Experts played down risk of BSE infection in vaccines

The virtues of The Heat Is On are diminished by its one-dimensional alarmist point of view.

The Heat is on: The High-Stakes Battle Over Earth's Threatened Climate

The general public, however, is only beginning to realize the enormous importance of this issue, as the alarmist media has, in the main, censored news regarding the hiatus and/or swamped any coverage of its impact on the falling "consensus" regarding the theory of anthropogenic (human-caused) global warming, or AGW.

Hiding the hiatus: global warming on pause: with C[O.sub.2] levels rising in the atmosphere from human causes, global-warming theory says that the Earth should be heating, but in fact, even alarmists agree that it's not

We have people who know nothing about climate science, like Sir David King your Chief Scientific adviser, who are alarmist and continually promote this ridiculous claim.