nerve-rackingadjective
also nerve-wracking uk/ˈnɜːvˌræk.ɪŋ/us/ˈnɝːvˌræk.ɪŋ/Something that is nerve-racking is difficult to do and causes a lot of worry for the person involved in it:
My wedding was the most nerve-racking thing I've ever experienced.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Causing anxiety and worry
- alarming
- bite
- catch up with sb
- come back to bite sb idiom
- come back/home to roost idiom
- flap
- frighten sb/sth away/off
- get/go beyond a joke idiom
- give sb the jitters idiom
- gnaw
- harass
- joke
- sweat
- tense
- troubling
- unnerve
- unsettling
- weigh
- weigh on sb/sth
- weigh sb down
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