adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In an alarming manner; so as to excite alarm or apprehension.
1787. Burns, Lett., 60, Wks. 1875, 349. Alarmingly ill of a sore throat.
1856. Froude, Hist. Eng., I. 8. So far from increasing, manufactures had alarmingly declined.
