alarmist

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   One who causes others to become alarmed without cause.

   • I don't mean to be an alarmist, but I do think you should prepare yourself for the worst.
   • 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.
2. 2

   Of or relating to causing others to become alarmed without cause.

   • 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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