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UNNERVING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does unnerving mean?
• UNNERVING (adjective)
The adjective UNNERVING has 1 sense:
1. inspiring fear
Familiarity information: UNNERVING used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Inspiring fear
Synonyms:
formidable; redoubtable; unnerving
Context example:
something unnerving and prisonlike about high grey wall
Similar:
alarming (frightening because of an awareness of danger)
Context examples
It was an awesome thing to sleep in that ill-fated camp; and yet it was even more unnerving to do so in the jungle.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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