Alarms Synonyms and Antonyms

To notify (someone) of imminent danger or risk
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. warns
  2. forewarns
  3. cautions
  4. alerts
  5. admonishes
Fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. terrifies
  2. terrorizes
  3. fears
  4. scares
  5. startles
  6. horrifies
  7. frightens
  8. panics
  9. warns
  10. alerts
  11. upsets
  12. unnerves
  13. threatens
  14. shocks
  15. rouses
  16. appalls
  17. rattles
  18. petrifies
  19. perturbs
  20. intimidates
  21. excites
  22. disturbs
  23. disquiets
  24. daunts
  25. arouses
  26. surprises
  27. stresses
  28. dismays
  29. affrights
Antonyms:
  1. soothes
  2. reassures
  3. calms
  4. assures
  5. reposes
  6. gladdens
An automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. alerts
  2. cautions
  3. warnings
  4. notifications
Anything that gives a warning
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. calls
  2. signals
  3. horns
  4. bells
  5. screams
  6. squeals
  7. cries
  8. shouts
  9. blasts
  10. hoots
  11. trumpets
  12. drums
  13. whistles
  14. gongs
  15. buzzers
  16. sirens
Sudden fear or concern caused by the realization of danger or an impending setback.
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. fears

Alarms Sentence Examples

  • His wards gave off alarms again, this time indicating he had a visitor.

  • The press promulgated the wildest alarms as to the intentions of Louis Napoleon, who was represented as contemplating a sudden and piratical descent upon the English coast without pretext or provocation.

  • Another statue, "The Sluggard," of equal merit, was exhibited in 1886; and a charming statuette of a nude figure of a girl looking over her shoulder at a frog, called "Needless Alarms," was completed in the same year, and presented by the artist to Sir John Millais in acknowledgment of the gift by the latter of his picture, "Shelling Peas."

  • An attempt to intervene in the war of Russia and Austria against Turkey failed of its object; Prussia did not succeed in obtaining any concessions of territory from the alarms of the Allies, and the dismissal of Hertzberg in 17 9 1 marked the final abandonment of the anti-Austrian tradition of Frederick the Great.

  • His first acts, indeed, allayed the worst alarms of the Liberals; but it was soon apparent that the weight of the crown would be consistently thrown into the scale of the reactionary forces.

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