Synonyms for nerve-wracking
nerve-wrack·ing

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1. nerve-wrackingadjective

   Synonyms:
   gut-wrenching

2. nerve-wrackingadjective

   Intensely distressing or irritating to the nerves.

   Synonyms:
   gut-wrenching

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1. nerve-racking, nerve-wracking, stressful, tryingadjective

   extremely irritating to the nerves

   "nerve-racking noise"; "the stressful days before a war"; "a trying day at the office"

   Synonyms:
   nerve-racking, stressful, trying

   Antonyms:
   agreeable

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1. List of paraphrases for "nerve-wracking":

   stressful, nerve-racking

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1. Thierry Chow:

   People born in the Rabbit year have to expect big changes health-wise, career-wise and relationship-wise. It could be a bit nerve-wracking, especially for those whose birth charts do n’t favor Water, but do remember it never is all bad. It may mean an opportunity to grow.

2. Ryder Wright:

   It’s pretty nerve-wracking sometimes, especially here the crowd is awesome, there’s no better feeling than the crowd here, sometimes it feels like there’s a little bit of pressure on you.

3. Joey Gonzalez:

   It was very nerve-wracking and a real barrier of entry because I thought it would be too hard.

4. Essential Quality:

   It got a little nerve wracking with both horses still to go and the rail still being out there, i think it'll be a good spot. He's got good tactical speed that he'll be able to get into a good position from there.

5. Jamie Lynn Spears:

   Last year was a big year of just me on the road, promoting my EP and doing that, and I kind of got away from the writing, the creating music process, which for the first five years before that I was always tuned in to writing, and really being connected to the process of that, and when I went back in to write, it was kind of nerve-wracking. It’s so bizarre, whenever you come back in. It’s a vulnerable process, and it was kind of nerve-wracking, but I feel like I’m getting back in the groove of it.