Usually means: Causing extreme anxiety or tension.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word nerve-racking:

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  1. nerve-racking: Merriam-Webster
  2. nerve-racking: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. nerve-racking: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. nerve-racking, nerve-racking: Collins English Dictionary
  5. nerve-racking: Vocabulary.com
  6. nerve-racking: Wordnik
  7. nerve-racking: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. nerve-racking: Wiktionary
  9. nerve-racking: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. nerve-racking: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. nerve-racking: Dictionary.com
  12. nerve-racking: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. nerve-racking: Rhymezone
  14. nerve-racking: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. nerve-racking: FreeDictionary.org
  16. nerve-racking: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. nerve-racking: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nerve-racking: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Intensely irritating or distressing to the nerves.

Similar:
stressful, nerve-wracking, trying, disagreeable, nerve-wrecking, nerve-jangling, nervewracking, nervelike, nervous, nervy, more...

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stressful, anxiety-inducing, nerve-wracking, heart-pounding, more...

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Similar:
stressful, nerve-wracking, trying, disagreeable, nerve-wrecking, nerve-jangling, nervewracking, nervelike, nervous, nervy, more...

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stressful, anxiety-inducing, nerve-wracking, heart-pounding, more...



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