Usually means: Causing worry, fear, or shock.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word alarming:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. alarming: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. alarming: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. alarming: Collins English Dictionary
  4. alarming: Vocabulary.com
  5. Alarming, alarming: Wordnik
  6. alarming: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. alarming: Wiktionary
  8. alarming: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. alarming: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. alarming: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Alarming, alarming: Dictionary.com
  12. alarming: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Alarming: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. alarming: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. alarming: Rhymezone
  16. Alarming: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. alarming: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. alarming: Free Dictionary
  19. alarming: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. alarming: Dictionary/thesaurus
  21. alarming: Merriam-Webster.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. alarming: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. alarming: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. alarming: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. alarming: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See alarm as well.)

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adjective:  Causing apprehension, fear or alarm; frightening.

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