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. Richard Bland:

   It was very special, very nerve-wracking, i was OK when I got onto the tee. A little bit nervous because you’re just about to start a major championship. But then once the announcer said, ‘ Right, it’s 30 seconds guys, ’ you’re like, this is it. This is what it’s all about.

2. Niklas Edin:

   It’s going to be a super, super interesting final, i think it might be nerve-wracking to play, but I think it’s going to be a super well-played game.

3. 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.

4. Rupert Werff:

   This is a very exciting but nerve-wracking time for us, the first juvenile allosaurus was just a couple of limb bones and three ribs, so this is by far the most intact specimen.

5. Nick Hague:

   It's nerve wracking. All the emotions that are going to be kind of coursing through me, you're leaving family for an extended period of time, so it can be stressful.