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un·nerv·ing

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. formidable, redoubtable, unnervingadjective

    inspiring fear

    "the formidable prospect of major surgery"; "a tougher and more redoubtable adversary than the heel-clicking, jackbooted fanatic"- G.H.Johnston; "something unnerving and prisonlike about high grey wall"

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of UNNERVING in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of UNNERVING in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of UNNERVING in a Sentence

  1. Bryden Teich:

    I think everyone thinks it's going to work its way out, but at the same time, it's a little bit unnerving what's going on over there and the lack of control that they seem to have on the situation.

  2. Mark Clawson:

    It's a lot more fun today than it was yesterday, yesterday it was just too unnerving.

  3. Salman Ahmed:

    What Mr Rajan wanted was to build a stronger institution and that cannot be one person, the market understands that. What's unnerving is the timing.

  4. Abdullah Karasu:

    But I doubt it's finished ... This silence is ominous. It's almost as unnerving as the rockets landing.

  5. Joyce Stranger:

    I love cats. I love their grace and their elegance. I love their independence and their arrogance, and the way they lie and look at you, summing you up, surely to your detriment, with that unnerving, unwinking, appraising stare.

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