Alarmist

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A person who needlessly alarms or attempts to alarm others, as by inventing or spreading false or exaggerated rumors of impending danger or catastrophe.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. One who causes others to become alarmed without cause.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One prone to sound or excite alarms, especially, needless alarms.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. One who excites alarm; one who is prone to raise an alarm, as by exaggerating bad news or prophesying calamities, particularly in regard to political or social matters.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a person who alarms others needlessly
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    communicator   
    Hyponym
    scaremonger    stirrer   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    scaremonger    pessimist    disquietist    terrorist   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    race-baiting    anticommunist    gun-slinging    anthropogenic    anti-muslim    doomsday    anticlimactic    'mlb    floppy-eared    simplistic   
     
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