alarm
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
fear resulting from the awareness of danger
Types & categories
- fearfulness hypernym
Related & opposite
- alarming attribute
- unalarming attribute
- alert derivation
- alarm derivation
Sense 2 verb
fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised
I was horrified at the thought of being late for my interview
Types & categories
Related & opposite
Sense 3 noun
a device that signals the occurrence of some undesirable event
Types & categories
- device hypernym
- automobile horn hyponym
- burglar alarm hyponym
- smoke alarm hyponym
- horn hyponym
- siren hyponym
Sense 4 verb
warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness
The empty house alarmed him
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- warning signal derivation
- alert derivation
- alarm derivation
- alert derivation
Sense 5 noun
an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger
Types & categories
- signal hypernym
- torpedo hyponym
- air alert hyponym
- burglar alarm hyponym
- fire alarm hyponym
- foghorn hyponym
- horn hyponym
- red flag hyponym
- siren hyponym
- tocsin hyponym
Related & opposite
- alert derivation
Sense 6 noun
a clock that wakes a sleeper at some preset time
Types & categories
- clock hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attribute | Related & opposite | alarming |
| 1 | attribute | Related & opposite | unalarming |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | alert |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | alarm |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | fearfulness |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | alarm |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | horror |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | alarmist |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | fright |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | shock |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | device |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | automobile horn |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | burglar alarm |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | smoke alarm |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | horn |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | siren |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | warning signal |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | alert |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | alarm |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | alert |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | warn |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | wake |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | alert |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | signal |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | torpedo |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | air alert |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | burglar alarm |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | fire alarm |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | foghorn |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | horn |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | red flag |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | siren |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | tocsin |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | clock |