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scaremonger

scaremonger noun: someone who spreads worrying rumours or needlessly alarms people.

Noun

scaremonger (plural scaremongers)

  1. Someone who spreads worrying rumours or needlessly alarms people.
    • I have refrained from giving actual names and dates, for obvious reasons, and have therefore been compelled, even at the risk of being again denounced as a scaremonger, to present the facts in the form of fiction—fiction which, I trust, will point its own patriotic moral.1909, William Le Queux, Spies of the Kaiser

Verb

scaremonger (third-person singular simple present scaremongers, present participle scaremongering, simple past and past participle scaremongered)

  1. To spread worrying rumours.
    • We're not scaremongering / This is really happening, happening2000, “Idioteque”, in Kid A, performed by Radiohead
    • If no new cases come from the Buff Club exposure site, it will be hard to believe politicians scaremongering that the delta variant is so infectious that all you have to do is walk past an infected person to get it.2021 July 2, The NT News, Darwin, page 23, column 2

scaremonger meaning in Malayalam

scaremonger in Malayalam

prophet of doom, alarmist, Cassandra
ഭീതിപരത്തുന്നവൻ, അകാരണമായി ഭയം ജനിപ്പിക്കുന്നവൻ, കൂട്ടഭീതിയുണ്ടാക്കുവാൻ ദുർവ്വാസനയുള്ളവൻ, ദോഷെെകദൃക്ക്, ഛിദ്രദർശി, ദോഷവശംമാത്രം കാണുന്നവൻ

Synonyms of scaremonger

Forms of scaremonger

Noun
pluralscaremongers
Verb
third-person singular presentscaremongers
present participlescaremongering
past participlescaremongered
pastscaremongered

Origin of scaremonger

From scare + monger.

Words formed from scaremonger

Questions about scaremonger

What does scaremonger mean?
Scaremonger means someone who spreads worrying rumours or needlessly alarms people.
What is scaremonger in Malayalam?
Scaremonger in Malayalam is ഭീതിപരത്തുന്നവൻ, അകാരണമായി ഭയം ജനിപ്പിക്കുന്നവൻ, കൂട്ടഭീതിയുണ്ടാക്കുവാൻ ദുർവ്വാസനയുള്ളവൻ. See Scaremonger meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is scaremonger?
Scaremonger can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of scaremonger?
The plural of scaremonger is scaremongers.

Words near scaremonger in the dictionary

  1. scareheaded
  2. scareheading
  3. scareheads
  4. scareless
  5. scarelore
  6. scaremonger
  7. scaremongered
  8. scaremongerer
  9. scaremongerers
  10. scaremongering
  11. scaremongers

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: scaremonger (page history and authors); scaremonger (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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