Thesaurus / unnerving
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The electric pulse guns have lots of tiny needles and are unnerving to behold.
MRNA TECHNOLOGY GAVE US THE FIRST COVID-19 VACCINES. IT COULD ALSO UPEND THE DRUG INDUSTRYWALTER ISAACSONJANUARY 11, 2021TIMEWhile the move befitted Netflix’s “earn your place each year” corporate ethos, it has unnerved employees within its original programming division and been followed by three more content executives leaving the company.
DIGITAL PUBLISHERS HUNT FOR HOME ON CONNECTED TVTIM PETERSONNOVEMBER 4, 2020DIGIDAYI think there can be nothing else in life quite like the unnerving realisation that rumour and scandal are afoot about one.
THE NEW MACHIAVELLIHERBERT GEORGE WELLSBut when Bart looked in the mirror he felt no unexpected shock, only an unnerving revulsion.
THE COLORS OF SPACEMARION ZIMMER BRADLEYThe darkness was intense, the narrow passage draughty, and the column thrilled and quivered in an unnerving manner.
THE PILLAR OF LIGHTLOUIS TRACYHis eyes, frowning beneath wrinkled brows, seemed to ask if he were not the victim of some unnerving hallucination.
THE PILLAR OF LIGHTLOUIS TRACYThey were dark and beautifully shaped and made an almost unnerving contrast with her corn-coloured hair.
DECEMBER LOVEROBERT HICHENSIt dropped with deadly effect upon the sorest spot of all, completely unnerving him.
THE WENDIGOALGERNON BLACKWOODBut though the unnerving under-thought would not begone, the scene within the great room held me fast by eye and ear.
THE MASTER OF APPLEBYFRANCIS LYNDEA fearful crash, indeed; but a material sound—a relief from its weird, unnerving prelude.
THE SIEGE OF KIMBERLEYT. PHELANWORDS RELATED TO UNNERVING
- abhorrent
- appalling
- atrocious
- awe-inspiring
- awesome
- awful
- beastly
- dangerous
- desperate
- dire
- disastrous
- disturbing
- dread
- dreaded
- dreadful
- extreme
- fearful
- frightful
- ghastly
- gruesome
- harrowing
- hateful
- hideous
- horrendous
- horrid
- horrifying
- inconvenient
- loathsome
- monstrous
- obnoxious
- odious
- offensive
- petrifying
- poor
- repulsive
- revolting
- rotten
- serious
- severe
- shocking
- unfortunate
- unnerving
- unpleasant
- unwelcome
- vile
- abhorrent
- appalling
- atrocious
- awe-inspiring
- awesome
- awful
- beastly
- dangerous
- desperate
- dire
- disastrous
- disturbing
- dread
- dreaded
- dreadful
- fearful
- frightful
- ghastly
- gruesome
- harrowing
- hateful
- hideous
- horrendous
- horrid
- horrifying
- inconvenient
- loathsome
- monstrous
- obnoxious
- odious
- offensive
- petrifying
- poor
- repulsive
- revolting
- rotten
- serious
- severe
- shocking
- unfortunate
- unnerving
- unpleasant
- unwelcome
- vile
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.