| 例句 |
alarmingadjective causing fearan alarming rise in her fever, causing the doctor to fear the worst dire, direful, dread, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, forbidding, formidable, frightening, frightful, ghastly, hair-raising, horrendous, horrible, horrifying, intimidating, redoubtable, scary, shocking, spine-chilling, terrible, terrifying daunting, demoralizing, disconcerting, discouraging, dismaying, disquieting, distressing, disturbing, perturbing, startling, threatening, troubling, trying, unnervingbone-chilling, creepy, eerie(also eery), weirdappalling, atrocious, awful, grisly, gruesome(also grewsome), hideous, horrid, macabre, monstrous, nightmarish calming, comforting, consoling, inviting, lulling, pacifying, quieting, reassuring, relaxing, soothing, tranquilizing(also tranquillizing)nonintimidating, nonthreatening to strike with fearI don't want to alarm you, but I think you should know there's a bear on your back porch affrighting, frightening, frighting, horrifying, panicking, scarifying, scaring, shocking, spooking, startling, terrifying, terrorizing appalling, bowling over, dismaying, flooring, jolting, shaking, shaking upamazing, astounding, awingchilling, daunting, demoralizing, dispiriting, emasculating, psyching (out), undoing, unmanning, unnerving, unstringingdiscomforting, discomposing, disconcerting, disquieting, distracting, distressing, disturbing, perturbing, unsettling, upsetting, worrying giving one the creeps, making one's flesh creep(or making one's flesh crawl) reassuring assuring, cheering, comforting, consoling, solacing, soothingemboldening, encouraging, heartening, inspiring, steeling to trouble the mind of; to make uneasyalarmed at the skyrocketing cost of home heating fuel agitating, ailing, bothering, concerning, derailing, discomforting, discomposing, dismaying, disquieting, distempering, distracting, distressing, disturbing, exercising, flurrying, frazzling, freaking (out), fussing, hagriding, perturbing, undoing, unhinging, unsettling, upsetting, weirding out, worrying aggravating, angering, annoying, bugging, chafing, chivying(or chivvying), exasperating, fretting, galling, getting, grating, harassing, harrying, irking, irritating, nettling, peeving, pestering, piquing, putting off, putting out, riling, vexingbedeviling, haunting, plaguingabashing, confounding, confusing, discomfiting, disconcerting, discountenancing, embarrassing, fazing, flustering, jarring, mortifying, nonplussing(also nonplusing), rattling, shaking updaunting, demoralizing, discouraging, disheartening, dispiriting, unnerving calming, composing, quieting, settling, soothing, tranquilizing(also tranquillizing) allaying, alleviating, assuagingappeasing, conciliating, mollifying, pacifying, placating, propitiating in 1658 |