nerve-racking

English

Alternative forms

• nerve-wracking

Etymology

1812.

Adjective

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

1. intensely irritating or distressing to the nerves

Synonyms

• gut-wrenching

Derived terms

• nerve-rackingly

Translations

intensely irritating or distressing

• Danish: nervepirrende
• German: nervenzerfetzend (de), nervenaufreibend (de), nervenzermürbend
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: nervepirrende (no)

  Nynorsk: nervepirrande

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See also

• pain-racked