nail-bitingadjective [ before noun ]
uk/ˈneɪlˌbaɪ.tɪŋ/us/ˈneɪlˌbaɪ.t̬ɪŋ/A nail-biting situation is very exciting or worrying because you do not know how it will end:
Germany won the championship after a nail-biting final.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Causing anxiety and worry
- alarming
- bite
- catch up with sb
- come back to bite sb idiom
- come back/home to roost idiom
- flap
- frighten sb/sth away/off
- get/go beyond a joke idiom
- give sb the jitters idiom
- gnaw
- harass
- joke
- sweat
- tense
- troubling
- unnerve
- unsettling
- weigh
- weigh on sb/sth
- weigh sb down
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