Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb unnerve
1 sense of unnerve
Sense 1
faze, unnerve, enervate, unsettle -- (disturb the composure of)
=> upset, discompose, untune, disconcert, discomfit -- (cause to lose one's composure)
Antonyms of adj unnerving
1 sense of unnerving
Sense 1
formidable, redoubtable, unnerving -- (inspiring fear; "the formidable prospect of major surgery"; "a tougher and more redoubtable adversary than the heel-clicking, jackbooted fanatic"- G.H.Johnston; "something unnerving and prisonlike about high grey wall")
INDIRECT (VIA alarming) -> unalarming -- (not alarming; assuaging alarm)
Similarity of adj unnerving
1 sense of unnerving
Sense 1
formidable, redoubtable, unnerving -- (inspiring fear; "the formidable prospect of major surgery"; "a tougher and more redoubtable adversary than the heel-clicking, jackbooted fanatic"- G.H.Johnston; "something unnerving and prisonlike about high grey wall")
=> alarming (vs. unalarming) -- (frightening because of an awareness of danger)