Pronunciations
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/ˈʌnˈnɜːvɪŋ/
Adjective
Causing a deprivation of courage, strength, confidence, etc.
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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.
Adjective
inspiring fear
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the formidable prospect of major surgery
something unnerving and prisonlike about high grey wall