nerve-racking

English

Alternative forms

nerve-wracking

Etymology

1812.[1]

Adjective

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

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

See also

pain-racked

References

“nerve-racking” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.

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