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unalarming

unalarming

3.2
Not causing fear or worry
  • adjective
  • /ˌʌnəˈlɑrmɪŋ/
translation icon : tranquilizador
  • During the storm, the emergency services issued unalarming updates to reassure the public that help was available.

Examples

  • Instead, Mallory tried to put in unalarming order for Rebecca some of what Lenin had told him when she left them alone for a few minutes.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • The teacher's calm explanation was unalarming, helping the students feel more relaxed about the upcoming test.

  • The doctor delivered the news in an unalarming manner, which eased the patient's anxiety about the procedure.

Synonyms

nonthreatening
vsunalarming
4 3.8

Not likely to make someone feel afraid or unsafe

is more reassuring and calming than being merely unlikely to cause harm
unthreatening
vsunalarming
4 3.2

Not causing fear and looking harmless

is more reassuring and calming rather than merely lacking threat
unmenacing
vsunalarming
4.6

Not looking or sounding dangerous

is more calming and reassuring rather than only appearing harmless

Antonyms

alarming
94 3.7

Making people feel worried because something seems dangerous

How Alarming

terrifying
209 5.3
alarming
94 3.7
worrying
6 2.0
unalarming
3.2
harmless
231 1.0

Surface Forms

unalarming positive

Morphology

unalarming = alarming (transparent) = un + alarm + ing

Formed by adding the productive negation prefix 'un-' to the adjective 'alarming', yielding a direct negated meaning.

Etymology

Unalarming starts with un- meaning 'not' and comes from alarm, which began as the old Italian cry all'arme meaning 'to your weapons' and became a word for a 'warning'. So unalarming means 'not causing fear or worry', calm and reassuring.