unnerved en · ADJ
Meanings
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Deprived of courage, strength, confidence, self-control, etc.
[…]Wrapped in around itself and self-befriended, His science needn't get him so unnerved. He had been too all out , too much extended . He slapped his breast to verify his purse And hugged himself for all his universe . […]
1995 October 14, Robert Frost, Richard Poirier, Robert Frost: Collected Poems, Prose, & Plays (LOA #81) (DE-601)374069697: Library of America series), Library of America, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 360:`Surely he dieth even now.' `True,' she said, with a start. `Oh, why did I not come before! I am unnerved - my hand trembles, even mine - and yet it is very easy.'
1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most unnerved | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more unnerved | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Translations (4)
mi māngi (deprived of courage, strength, confidence, self-control, etc.) · fi hermostunut (deprived of courage, strength, confidence, self-control, etc.) · es desnervado (deprived of courage, strength, confidence, self-control, etc.) · de entnervt (deprived of courage, strength, confidence, self-control, etc.)