Antonyms of adj unalarming

1 sense of unalarming

Sense 1
unalarming (vs. alarming) -- (not alarming; assuaging alarm)

alarming (vs. unalarming) -- (frightening because of an awareness of danger)
        => appalling, dismaying -- (causing consternation; "appalling conditions")
        => atrocious, frightful, horrifying, horrible, ugly -- (provoking horror; "an atrocious automobile accident"; "a frightful crime of decapitation"; "an alarming, even horrifying, picture"; "war is beyond all words horrible"- Winston Churchill; "an ugly wound")
        => awful, dire, direful, dread (prenominal), dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible -- (causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse")
        => baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening -- (threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments; "a baleful look"; "forbidding thunderclouds"; "his tone became menacing"; "ominous rumblings of discontent"; "sinister storm clouds"; "a sinister smile"; "his threatening behavior"; "ugly black clouds"; "the situation became ugly")
        => bloodcurdling, hair-raising, nightmarish -- (extremely alarming)
        => chilling, scarey, scary, shivery, shuddery -- (provoking fear terror; "a scary movie"; "the most terrible and shuddery...tales of murder and revenge")
        => creepy, creepy-crawly -- (causing a sensation as of things crawling on your skin; "a creepy story"; "I had a creepy-crawly feeling")
        => formidable, redoubtable, unnerving -- (inspiring fear; "the formidable prospect of major surgery"; "a tougher and more redoubtable adversary than the heel-clicking, jackbooted fanatic"- G.H.Johnston; "something unnerving and prisonlike about high grey wall")
        => ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick -- (shockingly repellent; inspiring horror; "ghastly wounds"; "the grim aftermath of the bombing"; "the grim task of burying the victims"; "a grisly murder"; "gruesome evidence of human sacrifice"; "macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages"; "macabre tortures conceived by madmen")
        => hairy -- (hazardous and frightening; "hairy moments in the mountains")
        => petrifying -- (paralyzing with terror)
        => stupefying -- (shocking with surprise and consternation; "the stupefying impact of the tragedy")
        => terrific, terrifying -- (causing extreme terror; "a terrifying wail")

Similarity of adj unalarming

1 sense of unalarming

Sense 1
unalarming (vs. alarming) -- (not alarming; assuaging alarm)

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