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Definition: Unnerved |
UnnervedAdjective1. Deprived of courage and strength; "the steeplejack, exhausted and unnerved, couldn't hold on to his dangerous perch much longer". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unnerved" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dejection | Overcome; broken down, borne down, bowed down; heartstricken; (mental suffering); cut up, dashed, sunk; unnerved, unmanned; down fallen, downtrodden; broken-hearted; careworn. |
Impotence | Paralytic, paralyzed; palsied, imbecile; nerveless, sinewless, marrowless, pithless, lustless; emasculate, disjointed; out of joint, out of gear; unnerved, unhinged; water-logged, on one's beam ends, rudderless; laid on one's back; done up, dead beat, exhausted, shattered, demoralized; graveled; (in difficulty); helpless, unfriended, fatherless; without a leg to stand on, hors de combat, laid on the shelf. |
Weakness | Adjective: weak, feeble, debile; impotent; relaxed, unnerved; Verb: sapless, strengthless, powerless; weakly, unstrung, flaccid, adynamic, asthenic; nervous. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He could remember only that she had worn a shawl about her head like a cowl and that her dark eyes had invited and unnerved him. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Unnerved" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 84.51% of the time. "Unnerved" is used about 71 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 84.51% | 60 | 43,597 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 14.08% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 1.41% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 71 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
unnerved | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "unnerved"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 失掉勇" (unnerve, unnerving). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | entnervte (enervated). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | terkesima. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ervedunnay нервировать расстроенный. (various references) tức tối, bị l m suy nhược mất can đảm. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Unnerved" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unervee, unnervy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "unnerved" (pronounced unner"vd) |
| 3 | -er" v d | conserved, curved, deserved, observed, preserved, reserved, served, swerved, underserved, undeserved. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-n-n-r-u-v" | |
-1 letter: unnerve. | |
-2 letters: dunner, endure, enured, nerved, uneven, vender, vendue. | |
-3 letters: ender, endue, enure, nerve, never, nuder, revue, undee, under, venue. | |
-4 letters: deer, dene, dere, dree, dune, dure, durn, erne, even, ever, need, nene, nerd, neve, nude, nurd, rede, reed, rend, rude, rued, rune, unde, veer, vend. | |
-5 letters: dee, den, dev, due, dun, end, ere, ern. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-n-n-r-u-v" | |
+3 letters: unconverted, undeserving. | |
+4 letters: endeavouring. | |
+5 letters: overabundance, overburdening, overindulgent, rendezvousing. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 6E 65 72 76 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. -. . .-. ...- . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01101110 01100101 01110010 01110110 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n n e r v e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 006E 0065 0072 0076 0065 0064 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5580807184887170 |
| 1. Definition 2. Quotations: Fiction 3. Usage Frequency 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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