🔍 牛津詞典
🔍 朗文詞典
🔍 劍橋詞典
🔍 柯林斯詞典
🔍 麥美倫詞典
🔍 韋氏詞典 🎯

檢索以下詞典:
(Mr. Ng 不推薦使用 Google 翻譯!)
最近搜尋:
BNC: 7554 COCA: 7719

— alarming

adjective [more alarming; most alarming]
BNC: 7554 COCA: 7719

alarming

adjective

alarm·​ing ə-ˈlär-miŋ How to pronounce alarming (audio)
: causing people to feel danger or alarm or to be worried or frightened
alarming news
The statistics revealed an alarming increase in childhood obesity.
alarmingly
ə-ˈlär-miŋ-lē
adverb
an alarmingly high rate of infection

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Trump’s remarks are even more alarming given the unprecedented spike in threats against the FBI since the search of Mar-a-Lago. Dean Obeidallah, CNN, 4 Sep. 2022 But users who clicked through Apple’s update-advisory page to see descriptions of individual fixes got a more alarming cybersecurity story. Rob Pegoraro, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2022 The evidence of accelerating climate change has become more alarming, with California as dry as dust and much of the world suffering through record heat and drought, along with the drought-deluge cycle associated with climate change. Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2022 The yolk the hatchlings draw their energy from in the early stages of life depleted at an alarming rate, forcing the sharks to learn how to forage for food much earlier in life. Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2022 The fire approached at an alarming rate and razed my house. Judith Magyar, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022 Lake Mead, which provides water to roughly 25 million people in Arizona, Nevada, California and Mexico, is losing water at an alarming rate amid an extraordinary, multi-year drought made worse by the climate crisis. Elise Hammond, CNN, 16 Aug. 2022 Escobar illegally prescribed opioids at an alarming rate between 2015 and 2019, including to people who didn’t medically need them, prosecutors said. Adam Ferrise, cleveland, 4 Aug. 2022 Twitter warned Thursday that governments around the globe are asking the company to remove content or snoop on private details of user accounts at an alarming rate. Amanda Seitz, ajc, 28 July 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

from present participle of alarm entry 2

First Known Use

1658, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of alarming was in 1658
BNC: 7554 COCA: 7719
alarming

adjective

VERBS | ADVERB VERBSbe, seem令人恐懼;好像令人恐懼find sth覺得⋯可怕I find the prospect of being without work extremely alarming.我預期可能會失業,覺得特別害怕。ADVERBextremely, fairly, very, etc.極其/相當/非常讓人擔心particularly格外令人擔憂a little, slightly, etc.有點兒/略有些令人擔憂

👨🏻‍🏫 Mr. Ng 韋氏詞典 📚 – mw.mister5️⃣.net
切換為繁體中文
Site Uptime