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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: 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" [syn: formidable, redoubtable, unnerving]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe something as unnerving, you mean that it makes you feel worried or uncomfortable. It is very unnerving to find out that someone you see every day is carrying a potentially deadly virus. = disconcerting ADJ