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单词 alarmist
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Definition of alarmist in English:

alarmist

noun əˈlɑːmɪstəˈlɑrməst
  • Someone who exaggerates a danger and so causes needless worry or panic.

    大惊小怪者,杞人忧天者

    the problem is a fabrication by alarmists
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The Bush Administration itself, whether for reasons of politics or ignorance, has also given intellectual ground to alarmists in the climate change debate.
    • To my mind there are, on this issue, two kinds of people: alarmists and fools.
    • Assuming, that is, that the danger is as bad as alarmists are saying.
    • But if misguided privacy alarmists have their way, the benefits of the next generation of bar codes may be denied or delayed.
    • The few who warned against the dangers of nuclear were dismissed as alarmists or even hysterics.
    • For decades, alarmists have been crying wolf with proclamations that the world is running out of oil.
    • Population alarmists looked at this essentially Catholic continent and shuddered.
    • I don't think we are being alarmists in our fears as they have been borne out in the past.
    • It is not just alarmists who are asking this question.
    • Hopefully, as more and more locales change their policies toward recycling, the politicians will quit listening to the eco-utopian alarmists and start being prudent with taxpayer dollars.
    • An intelligence expert even told Wilkinson: ‘Those of us who believed the threat was there were called alarmists and pessimists, but we called ourselves realists.’
    • The current heatwave in Europe is letting alarmists have a field day, allowing them to spout all sorts of rubbish without people noticing.
    • And that's accepting the dire predictions about warming of the global warming alarmists, which I do not.
    • But I draw the line at alarmists like Dionne, who thrust their fingers into the air to discover ‘chilling effects’ in the everyday conflicts between the state and press.
    • Listening to the obesity alarmists talk about this, you would think that one out of every 20 kids have Type - 2 diabetes, or at least one out of every 100.
    • They argue that the problem does not exist, or has been grossly exaggerated, and they call the reformers alarmists, fanatics, scaremongers, prophets of doom and so on.
    • Back in Siemiatycze, however, Radomski believes alarmists in the West who fear an invasion of immigrants have got it wrong.
    • An improved climate: ‘Every year, environmental alarmists claim we have taken another step on the road to ruin.’
    • … It would be wrong to conclude that we should join the alarmists in their prophesies of doom.
    • We have become alarmists practicing junk science and spreading fear of everything in our environment.
    Synonyms
    scaremonger, gloom-monger, doom-monger, voice of doom, doomster, doomsayer, doom merchant, Cassandra
    fatalist, pessimist, killjoy, misery
    informal doom and gloom merchant, wet blanket
adjective əˈlɑːmɪstəˈlɑrməst
  • Creating needless worry or panic.

    大惊小怪的,耸人听闻的

    alarmist rumours

    耸人听闻的谣传。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • At the same time, he sought to dismiss scare stories and alarmist reports in sections of the press, and stressed that Britain would continue to offer a warm welcome to genuine migrant workers and refugees.
    • But then, perhaps I'm slightly alarmist or paranoid?
    • In common with most alarmist theories, the concerns have been blown up out of all proportion to what is actually happening on the ground - but that does not mean that all is quiet on the south-east Asian front.
    • But Rice kept on saying these alarmist things nevertheless.
    • This, conceded the correspondent, ‘laid the ground for every conceivable rumour’, and contributed to alarmist reports in the Western media about the scale of the damage.
    • Canada's alarmist post-9/11 legislation will be given another careful look coast to coast, and it's all starting here.
    • If he warns of a terror attack, he is playing alarmist politics.
    • Global salvationism thus combines alarmist visions and diagnoses with confidently radical collectivist prescriptions for the world.
    • If Spiegel is being alarmist this reaction is far preferable to pretending nothing is happening or imagining away the underlying problems that lend Nazi imagery its power.
    • Unfortunately, this isn't some alarmist theory.
    • Even less alarmist academics thought that it had to worsen things, but as soon as it passed (even before it took effect), more poor people began looking for and getting jobs.
    • Of course, dictatorships issue this sort of alarmist propaganda all the time. U.S. troops on the parallel can't sneeze without Pyongyang accusing them of germ warfare.
    • Some people have worried that parts of the series were overly alarmist.
    • For the less gullible among us, the administration's alarmist rhetoric in 2002 was a grim farce, and the unfolding of the nightmare we see today was a foregone conclusion.
    • It triggered off right away some alarmist reactions at some of the mailing lists I have subscribed to, since it suggests a ‘crackdown’.
    • Brian Caton, general secretary of the Prison Officers Association, said the claims were not alarmist and warned that the situation in prisons across the country was getting worse.
    • What is the rational response to Shelby's alarmist words?
    • I have long been skeptical of alarmist demographic projections for the Palestinians, so the above-mentioned report doesn't surprise me.
    • Notwithstanding superficial Western reportage and alarmist propaganda by Arab Sunnis, Arab Shias do not obey the commands of Iranian Shias.
    • MR MULHOLLAND, I found your particular brand of negative alarmist journalism quite entertaining when I first started reading your column.
    Synonyms
    gloomy, dismal, pessimistic, negative, defeatist, downbeat, gloom-ridden, cynical, bleak, grim, fatalistic, black, sombre, drab, dreary

Derivatives

  • alarmism

  • noun əˈlɑːmɪz(ə)məˈlɑrmˌɪzəm
    • A theory I have is that the alarmism about television and children is a kind of anti-feminism (intentional or unintentional).
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The tidal wave caused by global warming alarmism has hit me.
      • But I pointedly and publicly criticized my colleagues when they engaged in alarmism and selective reporting.
      • The meat and drink of this alliance is alarmism, anxiety and fear [fear’].
      • This multi-disciplinary study concludes that climate alarmism is unwarranted and counterproductive for the developed world and particularly for the world's energy poor.

Rhymes

palmist, psalmist

Definition of alarmist in US English:

alarmist

nounəˈlɑrməstəˈlärməst
  • Someone who is considered to be exaggerating a danger and so causing needless worry or panic.

    大惊小怪者,杞人忧天者

    Example sentencesExamples
    • … It would be wrong to conclude that we should join the alarmists in their prophesies of doom.
    • They argue that the problem does not exist, or has been grossly exaggerated, and they call the reformers alarmists, fanatics, scaremongers, prophets of doom and so on.
    • For decades, alarmists have been crying wolf with proclamations that the world is running out of oil.
    • An improved climate: ‘Every year, environmental alarmists claim we have taken another step on the road to ruin.’
    • But if misguided privacy alarmists have their way, the benefits of the next generation of bar codes may be denied or delayed.
    • The Bush Administration itself, whether for reasons of politics or ignorance, has also given intellectual ground to alarmists in the climate change debate.
    • Assuming, that is, that the danger is as bad as alarmists are saying.
    • To my mind there are, on this issue, two kinds of people: alarmists and fools.
    • Hopefully, as more and more locales change their policies toward recycling, the politicians will quit listening to the eco-utopian alarmists and start being prudent with taxpayer dollars.
    • Listening to the obesity alarmists talk about this, you would think that one out of every 20 kids have Type - 2 diabetes, or at least one out of every 100.
    • An intelligence expert even told Wilkinson: ‘Those of us who believed the threat was there were called alarmists and pessimists, but we called ourselves realists.’
    • Population alarmists looked at this essentially Catholic continent and shuddered.
    • Back in Siemiatycze, however, Radomski believes alarmists in the West who fear an invasion of immigrants have got it wrong.
    • The current heatwave in Europe is letting alarmists have a field day, allowing them to spout all sorts of rubbish without people noticing.
    • And that's accepting the dire predictions about warming of the global warming alarmists, which I do not.
    • The few who warned against the dangers of nuclear were dismissed as alarmists or even hysterics.
    • I don't think we are being alarmists in our fears as they have been borne out in the past.
    • But I draw the line at alarmists like Dionne, who thrust their fingers into the air to discover ‘chilling effects’ in the everyday conflicts between the state and press.
    • It is not just alarmists who are asking this question.
    • We have become alarmists practicing junk science and spreading fear of everything in our environment.
    Synonyms
    scaremonger, gloom-monger, doom-monger, voice of doom, doomster, doomsayer, doom merchant, cassandra
adjectiveəˈlɑrməstəˈlärməst
  • Creating needless worry or panic.

    大惊小怪的,耸人听闻的

    alarmist rumors

    耸人听闻的谣传。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Brian Caton, general secretary of the Prison Officers Association, said the claims were not alarmist and warned that the situation in prisons across the country was getting worse.
    • For the less gullible among us, the administration's alarmist rhetoric in 2002 was a grim farce, and the unfolding of the nightmare we see today was a foregone conclusion.
    • Global salvationism thus combines alarmist visions and diagnoses with confidently radical collectivist prescriptions for the world.
    • At the same time, he sought to dismiss scare stories and alarmist reports in sections of the press, and stressed that Britain would continue to offer a warm welcome to genuine migrant workers and refugees.
    • MR MULHOLLAND, I found your particular brand of negative alarmist journalism quite entertaining when I first started reading your column.
    • Notwithstanding superficial Western reportage and alarmist propaganda by Arab Sunnis, Arab Shias do not obey the commands of Iranian Shias.
    • Of course, dictatorships issue this sort of alarmist propaganda all the time. U.S. troops on the parallel can't sneeze without Pyongyang accusing them of germ warfare.
    • But Rice kept on saying these alarmist things nevertheless.
    • What is the rational response to Shelby's alarmist words?
    • If he warns of a terror attack, he is playing alarmist politics.
    • In common with most alarmist theories, the concerns have been blown up out of all proportion to what is actually happening on the ground - but that does not mean that all is quiet on the south-east Asian front.
    • This, conceded the correspondent, ‘laid the ground for every conceivable rumour’, and contributed to alarmist reports in the Western media about the scale of the damage.
    • I have long been skeptical of alarmist demographic projections for the Palestinians, so the above-mentioned report doesn't surprise me.
    • Even less alarmist academics thought that it had to worsen things, but as soon as it passed (even before it took effect), more poor people began looking for and getting jobs.
    • It triggered off right away some alarmist reactions at some of the mailing lists I have subscribed to, since it suggests a ‘crackdown’.
    • If Spiegel is being alarmist this reaction is far preferable to pretending nothing is happening or imagining away the underlying problems that lend Nazi imagery its power.
    • Canada's alarmist post-9/11 legislation will be given another careful look coast to coast, and it's all starting here.
    • But then, perhaps I'm slightly alarmist or paranoid?
    • Some people have worried that parts of the series were overly alarmist.
    • Unfortunately, this isn't some alarmist theory.
    Synonyms
    gloomy, dismal, pessimistic, negative, defeatist, downbeat, gloom-ridden, cynical, bleak, grim, fatalistic, black, sombre, drab, dreary
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