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ALARMIST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does alarmist mean?
• ALARMIST (noun)
The noun ALARMIST has 1 sense:
1. a person who alarms others needlessly
Familiarity information: ALARMIST used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person who alarms others needlessly
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("alarmist" is a kind of...):
communicator (a person who communicates with others)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "alarmist"):
scaremonger; stirrer (a person who spreads frightening rumors and stirs up trouble)
Derivation:
alarm (fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised)
alarmism (needless warnings)
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