Definitions for unnerving

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. formidable, redoubtable, unnerving(adj)

    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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Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

unnerving(adjective)

to make someone feel nervous or discouraged

The look on his face unnerved her.; an unnerving silence/experience.

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