upset

Plural: upsets

Noun

• an unhappy and worried mental state
  • "she didn't realize the upset she caused me"
• the act of disturbing the mind or body
  • "his carelessness could have caused an ecological upset"
• a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning
  • "everyone gets stomach upsets from time to time"
• a tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging
• the act of upsetting something
  • "he was badly bruised by the upset of his sled at a high speed"
• an improbable and unexpected victory
  • "the biggest upset since David beat Goliath"
• Disturbance or disruption.
• An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win.
• An overturn.
• An upset stomach.
• An upper set; a subset (X,≤) of a partially ordered set with the property that, if x is in U and x≤y, then y is in U.
• The dangerous situation where the flight attitude or airspeed of an aircraft is outside the designed bounds of operation, possibly resulting in loss of control.
• A woven row supporting the foundation rods for the uprights of a basket.

Verb

Verb Forms: upset, upsetting, upsets

• To overturn, disturb, or cause emotional distress.
• disturb the balance or stability of
  • "The hostile talks upset the peaceful relations between the two countries"
• cause to lose one's composure
• move deeply
  • "This book upset me"
• cause to overturn from an upright or normal position
• form metals with a swage
• defeat suddenly and unexpectedly
  • "The foreign team upset the local team"
• To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
• To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).
• To tip or overturn (something).
• To defeat unexpectedly.
• To be upset or knocked over.
• To set up; to put upright.
• To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end.
• To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.
• To support with an upset (type of woven row).

Adjective Satellite

• afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief
  • "too upset to say anything"
• thrown into a state of disarray or confusion
  • "with everything so upset"
• used of an unexpected defeat of a team favored to win
  • "the Bills' upset victory over the Houston Oilers"
• mildly physically distressed
  • "an upset stomach"
• having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottom
  • "the upset pitcher of milk"

Adj

• Angry, distressed, or unhappy.
• Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to vomit.

Examples

• A surprising triple-word play could easily upset his opponent’s winning streak.
• Bryan came home from school with an upset tummy.
• He was upset when she refused his friendship.
• His stomach was upset, so he didn't want to move.
• Introducing a foreign species can upset the ecological balance.
• I’m sure the bad news will upset him, but he needs to know.
• My children often get upset with their classmates.
• My late arrival caused the professor considerable upset.
• The carriage upset when the horse bolted.
• The fatty meat upset his stomach.
• Truman upset Dewey in the 1948 US presidential election.

Synonyms

bowl over, broken, confused, derangement, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, disorder, disordered, disquieted, distressed, disturb, disturbance, disturbed, knock over, overthrow, overturn, overturned, perturbation, swage, tip over, trouble, tump over, turn over, turnover, untune, upturned, worried, affront, aggravate, aggrieve, agitate, anger, antagonize, attrist, awrath, begloom, begrieve, besorrow, bother, bring down, burn up, cheese off, contristate, cross, dash, deject, depress, desolate, dispirit, disrupt, disruption, distress, embitter, engrieve, enturbulate, envenom, forset, gall, get, get down, get one's back up, get someone's Irish up, get someone's dander up, get someone's goat, get to, grieve, grieven, honk off, in a tizzy, incense, inflame, infuriate, invert, madden, make angry, make someone see red, make someone's blood boil, moan, mortify, nark, offend, oppress, outrage, perturb, piss off, provoke, put out, put someone's back up, raise someone's hackles, raise someone's shag, rankle, rattle someone's cage, redress, right, rile, roil, rub the wrong way, rue, ruffle, ruffle some feathers, sadden, sadden up, set off, set up someone's birse, stand, steam, throw off balance, tick off, tip, tip up, tristitiate, turn upside down, ungladden, unhappy, unsettle, upend, upset

Antonyms

alleviate, appease, calm, comfort, compose, quieten

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