NERVE-RACKING Synonyms

• causing or tending to cause anger or resentment

• frightening because of an awareness of danger

• eagerly desirous

• causing or fraught with or showing anxiety

• causing an emotional disturbance

• causing mental discomfort

• causing distress or worry or anxiety

• bad; unfortunate

• extremely alarming

• discouraging through fear

• in or of a state of physical or nervous tension

• pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat')

• taut or rigid; stretched tight

• a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time

• become stretched or tense or taut

• increase the tension on

• become tense, nervous, or uneasy

• cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious

• inspiring fear

• causing an emotional disturbance

• not reassuring; tending to cause anxiety

• causing distress or worry or anxiety

• disturb the composure of

• extremely irritating to the nerves

• hard to endure

• extremely irritating to the nerves