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PRONUNCIATION OF UNNERVINGLY

unnervingly  [ʌnˈnɜːvɪŋlɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UNNERVINGLY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Unnervingly is an adverb.
The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WHAT DOES UNNERVINGLY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of unnervingly in the English dictionary

The definition of unnervingly in the dictionary is in a manner that makes you feel worried or uncomfortable.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH UNNERVINGLY


approvingly
əˈpruːvɪŋlɪ
believingly
bɪˈliːvɪŋlɪ
deceivingly
dɪˈsiːvɪŋlɪ
deservingly
dɪˈzɜːvɪŋlɪ
disapprovingly
ˌdɪsəˈpruːvɪŋlɪ
disbelievingly
ˌdɪsbɪˈliːvɪŋlɪ
drivingly
ˈdraɪvɪŋlɪ
grievingly
ˈɡriːvɪŋlɪ
improvingly
ɪmˈpruːvɪŋlɪ
livingly
ˈlɪvɪŋlɪ
lovingly
ˈlʌvɪŋlɪ
movingly
ˈmuːvɪŋlɪ
observingly
əbˈzɜːvɪŋlɪ
reprovingly
rɪˈpruːvɪŋlɪ
revivingly
rɪˈvaɪvɪŋlɪ
thrivingly
ˈθraɪvɪŋlɪ
unapprovingly
ˌʌnəˈpruːvɪŋlɪ
unbelievingly
ˌʌnbɪˈliːvɪŋlɪ
undeservingly
ˌʌndɪˈzɜːvɪŋlɪ
unswervingly
ʌnˈswɜːvɪŋlɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE UNNERVINGLY

unneath
unnecessarily
unnecessariness
unnecessary
unneeded
unneedful
unneedfully
unnegotiable
unneighborly
unneighboured
unneighbourly
unnerve
unnerved
unnerving
unnest
unnetted
unneurotic
unnewsworthy
unnilhexium
unnilpentium

WORDS THAT END LIKE UNNERVINGLY

accordingly
amazingly
astonishingly
correspondingly
exceedingly
increasingly
interestingly
irritatingly
knowingly
overwhelmingly
seemingly
shockingly
sickeningly
singly
sparingly
strikingly
strongly
stunningly
surprisingly
unknowingly
willingly

Synonyms and antonyms of unnervingly in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «unnervingly» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF UNNERVINGLY

Find out the translation of unnervingly to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of unnervingly from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «unnervingly» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

令人不安
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

desconcertantemente
570 millions of speakers

English

unnervingly
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

unnervingly
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

unnervingly
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

unnervingly
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

unnervingly
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

unnervingly
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

unnervingly
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tidak sihat
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

entnervend
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ドキッとするほど
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

무서울
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Unnervingly
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

unnervingly
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

unnervingly
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Unnervingly
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

unnervingly
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

unnervingly
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

denerwująco
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

unnervingly
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

enervant
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

unnervingly
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

unnervingly
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

unnervingly
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

unnervingly
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of unnervingly

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «UNNERVINGLY»

The term «unnervingly» is normally little used and occupies the 109.022 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «UNNERVINGLY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «unnervingly» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «unnervingly» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about unnervingly

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNNERVINGLY»

Discover the use of unnervingly in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to unnervingly and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Haunting My Ghosts: A Novel Experience
statement. were. laid. to. rest. unnervingly. on. me. Within the concrete confines of Hannah's council house, my head swirling, my stomach thick with bile, we swore an oath never to talk about the incident with anyone else, ever. At home ...
No Lle Blake, 2012
2
Winner of the National Book Award: A Novel of Fame, Honor, ...
Winner of the National Book Award, the long-awaited novel from the author of the acclaimed collection, Jenny and the Jaws of Life, is an unusual and wonderful novel that is somehow able to be at once bleak and hilarious, light-hearted and ...
Jincy Willett, 2010
3
Women of Owu
This is an African retelling of Euripides: an unnervingly topical story of a people and a beloved city destroyed by the brutality of war.
Femi Osofisan, 2006
4
William Faulkner: Seeing Through the South
10), she's pointing to the obvious closeness of the two college friends, but the word “fratricide” strikes unnervingly close to the aura of incest among the Sutpen children and the new suitor, and incest strikes unnervingly close to Mr. Compson's ...
John T. Matthews, 2011
5
The Wellspring
“Hey, Mike—you okay?” Parker asked. Michael responded by collapsing onto his side on the cafeteria floor with an unnervingly loud thud, accompanied by an unnervingly loud shudder of breath, both of which brought Mrs. Lyons, the off— duty ...
Todd Kreisman, 2007
6
House of Fun: 20 Glorious Years in Parliament
After an unnervingly long climb, you suddenly dip into the longest and fastest drop anywhere in the world. What makes it even more gut-wrenching is that the train is turning round 90 degrees on its own axis, so that you resume at right- angles ...
Hoggart, Simon
7
Shakespeare's Tragedies: A Guide to Criticism
In all its iterations, the name of king is unnervingly labile, but no less potent for being so. It would define itself as the opposite of the blasphemous savagery the play calls “Macbeth,” imagining itself, stable and singular, as a benign principle of  ...
Emma Smith, 2008
8
Anno Frankenstein
“Things have progressed too far for us to stop now,” Olbricht stated in a voice that was too unnervingly quiet and unnervingly calm, given the current topic of conversation. “The Icarus Project is nearing its final phase. If we don't act now there ...
Jonathan Green, 2011
9
The Novel Now: Contemporary British Fiction
Nye's trademark is the exploitation and despoiling of historical mythologies, the creation of someone unnervingly, sometimes disagreeably, real from a fabric of possibilities. Neither Ackroyd nor Nye saw themselves as initiators of a literary ...
Richard Bradford, 2009
10
The President's Cabinet: Gender, Power, and Representation
Characteristically, she is almost unnervingly confident that she can make a difference as Secretary of Health and Human Services.46 As in the biographical articles for other women secretaries-designate, Shalala received a curiously qualified ...
MaryAnne Borrelli, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNNERVINGLY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term unnervingly is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Humble beginnings: an unnervingly moving portrait of Melvyn Bragg
Even more unnerving, my heart felt full, the way it might do at a family wedding, or even a funeral. Bragg seemed suddenly to be standing proxy not only for ... «New Statesman, Jul 15»
2
Smallville and Arrow posters unnervingly similar
Hey there MoviePilot fans, this is just a quick post to point something out that I have found that has neglected to be mentioned and I just find it amusing so I want ... «moviepilot.com, Jul 15»
3
Campaign-Speak, 2016 Edition
Seventeen months before the general election, the language from the Presidential candidates, such as Marco Rubio, has been unnervingly free of thought. «The New Yorker, Jun 15»
4
4 Unnervingly Conservative Quotes From The Supreme Court's Gay …
At long last, the Supreme Court has rendered a decision that legalizes same sex marriage across all 50 states in the U.S. The decision was made public on ... «Bustle, Jun 15»
5
The Affair is weirdly, unnervingly unsexy - but I'm addicted
The Affair is weirdly, unnervingly unsexy - but I'm addicted ... The Affair is weirdly, unnervingly unsexy, and I write as someone who often daydreams about West ... «New Statesman, May 15»
6
Japanese TV star Matsuko Deluxe's android clone hosts own show
'It's unnervingly real,' said one commentator of the programme Matsuko Matsuko, which premiered at the weekend. Mr Deluxe, who is popular in Japan for his ... «Daily Mail, Apr 15»
7
Last McDonalds Burger Sold In Iceland Still Looks Unnervingly Fresh
On that fateful day Hjörtur Smárason purchased the last cheeseburger to grace Iceland and decided that instead of eating it he'd keep it and see what happened ... «Huffington Post UK, Jan 15»
8
Attack on Titan Characters Made Unnervingly Real
They're not one-to-one scale, and are slightly smaller than real people—something, I think, that keeps them from venturing completely into totally unnerving ... «Kotaku, Jan 15»
9
'Your Lithopedion' offers an unnervingly funny look at a marriage …
Glenn Aucoin and Rebecca Elizabeth Hollingsworth as serial killer Lithopedion and his nameless wife in Lux et Umbra's production of New Orleans playwright ... «NOLA.com, Jan 15»
10
Body horror doesn't get more unnervingly plausible than this
What's uniquely unnerving about this little-seen French psychodrama is that the protagonist, Esther (played by De Van), has no particular reason for taking the ... «A.V. Club Denver/Boulder, Nov 14»

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