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say it: uhn-NURVD
unnerved is an adjective meaning "deprived of courage and strength". 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.