Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

nerve-wracked

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.45 in modern English

Syllables: nerve-wracked
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Alternative form of nerve-racked.

Example Sentences

"Amateur traders get nerve-wracked, and tend to sell short of their predetermined exit points."
"I dropped to my knees in the Saint Aquinas chapel every single night for two weeks straight and dialed the divine Dr. Phil for guidance, implicitly blaming him for my woes: You created my pitiful self-consciousness and nerve-wracked sexuality with your religious rules and prohibitions —do something about it!"
"With regard to the latter, she wrote of “the undeniable calmative value of the motion picture as a relaxation for nerve-wracked humanity.""

Inflected Forms

more nerve-wracked (comparative) most nerve-wracked (superlative)

Questions

What does nerve-wracked mean?: Alternative form of nerve-racked.

How to pronounce nerve-wracked

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