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nerve-racking

/ˈnɝv ˌɹækɪŋ/

nerve-racking adjective: intensely irritating or distressing to the nerves.

Adjective

nerve-racking (comparative more nerve-racking, superlative most nerve-racking)

  1. Intensely irritating or distressing to the nerves.
    • His own greeting was equally cordial. "Still exploring!" he cried, as he shook them by the hand. "We will hope your new experiences will not be so nerve-racking as our last."1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019
    Synonyms:
    gut-wrenching

nerve-racking meaning in Malayalam and Kannada

nerve-racking in Malayalam

anxious, stressful, worrying
ഉദ്വേഗഭരിതമായ, ഉദേഗജനകമായ, പിരിമുറുക്കമുള്ള, ഉത്കണ്ഠാജനകം, ഉദ്വേഗകരമായ, ആധിപിടിപ്പിക്കുന്ന

nerve-racking in Kannada

ನರಪೀಡಕ, ನರಹಿಂಸಕ, ನರಗಳಿಗೆ ಆಯಾಸವನ್ನು ಉಂಟುಮಾಡುವ

Synonyms of nerve-racking

Forms of nerve-racking

comparativemore nerve-racking
superlativemost nerve-racking
alternative formnerve-wracking

Origin of nerve-racking

1812.

Words formed from nerve-racking

Questions about nerve-racking

What does nerve-racking mean?
Nerve-racking means intensely irritating or distressing to the nerves.
What is nerve-racking in Malayalam?
Nerve-racking in Malayalam is ഉദ്വേഗഭരിതമായ, ഉദേഗജനകമായ, പിരിമുറുക്കമുള്ള. See Nerve-racking meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is nerve-racking?
Nerve-racking is an adjective.
How do you pronounce nerve-racking?
Nerve-racking is pronounced /ˈnɝv ˌɹækɪŋ/ (US).

Words near nerve-racking in the dictionary

  1. nerve wrack
  2. nerve wracks
  3. nerve-jangling
  4. nerve-rack
  5. nerve-racked
  6. nerve-racking
  7. nerve-rackingly
  8. nerve-racks
  9. nerve-shredder
  10. nerve-shredders
  11. nerve-shredding

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nerve-racking (page history and authors); nerve-racking (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); nerve-racking (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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