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say it: uhn-NURVD
unnerved is an adjective meaning "deprived of courage and strength". It is pronounced /ənˈnɝvd/ — uhn-NURVD. It carries one recorded sense.
deprived of courage and strength
“the steeplejack, exhausted and unnerved, couldn't hold on to his dangerous perch much longer”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for unnerved come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.