Unnerving

Definition: Unnerving

Unnerving

Adjective

1. 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".

Sounds Captioned with "Unnerving".

Play	Caption
	Horror movie; bloodcurdling; chilling; creepy; hair-raising; hairy; horrendous; horrifying; spine-chilling; spooky; terrifying; unnerving.
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Use in Literature: Unnerving

Title	Author	Quote
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	Douglas Adams	Perhaps it was that he smiled slightly too broadly and gave people the unnerving impression that he was about to go for their neck.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Usage Frequency: Unnerving

"Unnerving" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 76.32% of the time. "Unnerving" is used about 114 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	76.32%	87	35,390
Adjective (general or positive)	21.93%	25	69,787
Noun (proper)	0.88%	1	339,140
Noun (singular)	0.88%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	114	N/A

Modern Translation: Unnerving

Language		Translations for "unnerving"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		失掉勇�" (unnerve, unnerved). (various references)

French		énervant. (various references)

German		entnervend (enervating). (various references)

Hungarian		nyugtalanító (disconcerting, disquieting, disturbing, troublesome, vexing), elbátortalanító (discouraging). (various references)

Pig Latin		ervingunnay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations & Misspellings: Unnerving

Derivations
	Words beginning with "unnerving": unnervingly. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Unnerving" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: runnering, unerving. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Rhyming with "Unnerving"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "unnerving" (pronounced uner"ving)
4	-er" v i ng	conserving, curving, deserving, observing, preserving, reserving, serving, undeserving, unswerving.
3	-v i ng	absolving, achieving, approving, arriving, behaving, believing, braving, calving, caregiving, carving, caving, conceiving, conniving, craving, deceiving, delving, depriving, deriving, disapproving, disbelieving, dissolving, diving, driving, earthmoving, engraving, evolving, forgiving, giving, grieving, halving, having, heaving, improving, interleaving, interweaving, involving, jiving, leaving, lifesaving, living, loving, misbehaving, misgiving, moving, paving, perceiving, proving, raving, receiving, relieving, reliving, removing, resolving, retrieving, reviving, revolving, revving, saving, shaving, shelving, shoving, sieving, skydiving, solving, starving, staving, striving, surviving, thanksgiving, thieving, thriving, unbelieving, unforgiving, waiving, waving, weaving.
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Anagrams: Unnerving

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-g-i-n-n-n-r-u-v"
	-2 letters: enuring, nerving, running.
	-3 letters: ginner, gunnen, gunner, rennin.
	-4 letters: ennui, given, giver, inner, inure, inurn, reign, renig, renin, riven, ruing, unrig, urine, venin.
	-5 letters: genu, gien, girn, give, grin, grue, nevi, nine, rein, ring, rive, ruin, rune, rung, urge, vein, vier, vine.
	Words containing the letters "e-g-i-n-n-n-r-u-v"
	+2 letters: overrunning, unnervingly.
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