causing worry and fear:
an alarming increase in the number of cases of skin cancer * The rainforests are disappearing at an alarming rate.
alarmingly adverb:
Prices have risen alarmingly.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for alarming is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is alarming a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, alarming is tagged as adjective.
Does alarming appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — alarming appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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