Crossword clues for unnerving
unnerving
Wiktionary
unnerving
vb. (present participle of unnerve English)
WordNet
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 gray wall" [syn: formidable, redoubtable]
Usage examples of "unnerving".
The realization that she was experiencing the symptoms of a major anxiety attack was more unnerving than the antagonistic source.
After she and Giles discovered the reason underlying her unnerving experience, she intended to find out.
They drove on a mile, the only sound the unnerving hum of the tires on the cold road.
The equipment hissed away with an unnerving sound like a child sucking too hard through a straw.