alarming Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised
    horrify; dismay; alarm; appall; appal.
    • I was horrified at the thought of being late for my interview
    • The news of the executions horrified us
  2. verb warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness
    alarm; alert.
    • The empty house alarmed him
    • We alerted the new neighbors to the high rate of burglaries
  3. adjective frightening because of an awareness of danger

WordNet

A*larm"ing adjective
Definitions
  1. Exciting, or calculated to excite, alarm; causing apprehension of danger; as, an alarming crisis or report. -- A*larm"ing*ly, adv.

Webster 1913