Antonyms for alarm
əˈlɑrmalarm

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1. alarm

   Alarm, according to its derivation all'arme, "to arms," is an arousing to meet and repel danger, and may be quite consistent with true courage. Affright and fright express sudden fear which, for the time at least, overwhelms courage. The sentinel discovers with alarm the sudden approach of the enemy; the unarmed villagers view it with affright. Apprehension, disquietude, dread, misgiving, and solicitude are in anticipation of danger; consternation, dismay, and terror are overwhelming fear, generally in the actual presence of that which is terrible, though these words also may have an anticipative force. Timidity is a quality, habit, or condition, a readiness to be affected with fear. A person of great timidity is constantly liable to needless alarm and even terror. Compare FEAR.

   Antonyms:
   assurance, calmness, confidence, repose, security

   Synonyms:
   affright, apprehension, consternation, dismay, disquietude, dread, fear, fright, misgiving, panic, solicitude, terror, timidity

   Preposition:
   Alarm was felt in the camp, among the soldiers, at the news.

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1. alarmnoun

   Antonyms:
   confidence, security, quiet

   Synonyms:
   apprehension, fright, fear, timidity, consternation, tocsin, war-cry, war-note, reveille, dread, affright, disquietude, dismay

2. alarmverb

   Antonyms:
   compose, embolden, reassure, rally

   Synonyms:
   warn, wake, terrify, intimidate, frighten

Matched Categories

1. • Device
   • Signal
   • Warn

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1. alarm, dismay, consternationnoun

   fear resulting from the awareness of danger

   Synonyms:
   warning device, alarum, warning signal, consternation, alarm clock, alert, alarm system, discouragement, dismay, disheartenment

2. alarm, warning device, alarm systemnoun

   a device that signals the occurrence of some undesirable event

   Synonyms:
   warning device, alarum, warning signal, consternation, alarm clock, alert, alarm system, dismay

3. alarm, alert, warning signal, alarumnoun

   an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger

   Synonyms:
   warning device, alarum, warning signal, consternation, alarm clock, qui vive, alert, alarm system, alerting, dismay

4. alarm clock, alarmverb

   a clock that wakes a sleeper at some preset time

   Synonyms:
   warning device, alarum, warning signal, consternation, alarm clock, alert, alarm system, dismay

5. dismay, alarm, appal, appall, horrifyverb

   fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised

   "I was horrified at the thought of being late for my interview"; "The news of the executions horrified us"

   Synonyms:
   depress, dismay, appall, dispirit, outrage, shock, appal, deject, demoralise, horrify, offend, scandalise, get down, demoralize, cast down, scandalize, alert

6. alarm, alertverb

   warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness

   "The empty house alarmed him"; "We alerted the new neighbors to the high rate of burglaries"

   Synonyms:
   dismay, appall, appal, horrify, alert

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1. alarmnoun

   Synonyms:
   warning, signal, apprehension, terror, consternation trepidation, fright, panic, dismay

2. alarmverb

   Synonyms:
   terrify, frighten, scare, appall, daunt, unnerve, intimidate

How to use alarm in a sentence?

1. President Nicolas Maduro:

   We are declaring a state of alarm.

2. Phyllis Woods:

   I was just watching with increasing alarm and dismay.

3. Henry Hon:

   The conscience is the innate mechanism God created in human nature to sound an inner alarm in an attempt to prevent people from taking harmful actions.

4. John Lyon:

   This is a public health crisis, and it is time to sound the alarm, to ensure that everyone takes proper action to protect themselves and their neighbors ; for the health and safety of all of us in Rockland County.

5. Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers:

   I don’t think this is a time for panic or alarm, this is not 2008, where people needed to be worried about where they could get their money…It absolutely is not that.

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