Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

nerve-racked

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.00 in modern English

Syllables: nerve-racked
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Experiencing nerve rack.

Example Sentences

"He was the last person a nerve-racked trader wanted to see."
"But as things are to-day it is scarcely an exaggeration to say that the majority of wives are left wakeful and nerve-racked to watch with tender motherly brooding, or with bitter and jealous envy, the slumbers of the men who, through ignorance and carelessness, have neglected to see that they too had the necessary resolution of nervous tension."
"Siana spent a nerve-racked night, searching her conscience as she tossed and turned."

Inflected Forms

more nerve-racked (comparative) most nerve-racked (superlative) nerveracked (alternative) nerve-wracked (alternative) nervewracked (alternative)

Questions

What does nerve-racked mean?: Experiencing nerve rack.

How to pronounce nerve-racked

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