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unnerving

adjective

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈʌnˈnɜːvɪŋ/

adj

  1. Causing a deprivation of courage, strength, confidence, etc.

    Presenting 14 unnerving segments, featured phobias include caetophobia (fear of hairs), henophobia (fear of young virgin girls), coprophobia (fear of feces), mysophobia (fear of contamination and germs), mazeophobia (fear of being lost), astrophobia (fear of celestial objects), mageirocophobia (fear of cooking) and oneirophobia (fear of dreams).

    The situation was unnerving, and dangerous.

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of unnerve