unnerveverb [ T ]
uk/ʌnˈnɜːv/us/ʌnˈnɝːv/to make someone feel less confident and slightly frightened:
I think it unnerved me to be interviewed by so many people.
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
- suspenseful
- sweat
- tense
- troubling
- unsettling
- weigh
- weigh on sb/sth
- weigh sb down
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unnerving
adjective uk/ʌnˈnɜː.vɪŋ/us/ʌnˈnɝː.vɪŋ/
Meeting a twin brother I didn't know I had was an unnerving experience.
unnervingly
adverb uk/ʌnˈnɜː.vɪŋ.li/us/ʌnˈnɝː.vɪŋ.li/