Alarmist: alternatives and connections

Practicing abuse; prone to ill treat by coarse, insulting words or by other ill usage; as, an abusive author; an abusive fellow.

Needle-shaped; slender like a needle or bristle, as some leaves or crystals; also, having sharp points like needless.

Inclined to adventure; willing to incur hazard; prone to embark in hazardous enterprise; rashly daring; -- applied to persons.

Having the qualities of an ape; prone to imitate in a servile manner. Hence: Apelike; fantastically silly; foppish; affected; trifling.

To excite to action from a state of rest; to stir, or put in motion or exertion; to rouse; to excite; as, to arouse one from sleep; to…

Making undue claims and pretension; prone to arrogance.

A sound consisting of, or characterized by, a breath like the sound of h; the breathing h or a character representing such a sound; an…

A needless repetition of words in speaking or writing.

Something frightful, as a specter; anything imaginary that causes needless fright; something used to excite needless fear; also, somet…

A slaughterer; one who kills in large numbers, or with unusual cruelty; one who causes needless loss of life, as in battle.

A small box to hold a sailor's thread, needless, comb, etc.

An operation that consists in inserting needless in the part affected, and connecting them with the poles of a galvanic apparatus.

Upright, or having a vertical position; not inverted; not leaning or bent; not prone; as, to stand erect.

Having power to excite; tending or serving to excite; excitatory.

To call to activity in any way; to rouse to feeling; to kindle to passionate emotion; to stir up to combined or general activity; as,…

Prone to make excursions; wandering; roving; exploring; as, an excursive fancy.

Given to faction; addicted to form parties and raise dissensions, in opposition to government or the common good; turbulent; seditious…

Prone to giggling.