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Upset   /əpsˈɛt/  /ˈəpsˌɛt/   Listen
Upset

adjective
1.
Afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief.  Synonyms: disquieted, distressed, disturbed, worried.  "Spent many disquieted moments" , "Distressed about her son's leaving home" , "Lapsed into disturbed sleep" , "Worried parents" , "A worried frown" , "One last worried check of the sleeping children"
2.
Thrown into a state of disarray or confusion.  Synonyms: broken, confused, disordered.  "A confused mass of papers on the desk" , "The small disordered room" , "With everything so upset"
3.
Used of an unexpected defeat of a team favored to win.
4.
Mildly physically distressed.
5.
Having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottom.  Synonyms: overturned, upturned.  "The upset pitcher of milk" , "Sat on an upturned bucket"
verb
(past & past part. upset; pres. part. upsetting)
1.
Disturb the balance or stability of.
2.
Cause to lose one's composure.  Synonyms: discomfit, discompose, disconcert, untune.
3.
Move deeply.  Synonyms: disturb, trouble.  "A troubling thought"
4.
Cause to overturn from an upright or normal position.  Synonyms: bowl over, knock over, overturn, tip over, tump over, turn over.  "The clumsy customer turned over the vase" , "He tumped over his beer"
5.
Form metals with a swage.  Synonym: swage.
6.
Defeat suddenly and unexpectedly.
noun
1.
An unhappy and worried mental state.  Synonyms: disturbance, perturbation.  "She didn't realize the upset she caused me"
2.
The act of disturbing the mind or body.  Synonyms: derangement, overthrow.  "She was unprepared for this sudden overthrow of their normal way of living"
3.
A physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning.  Synonym: disorder.  "Everyone gets stomach upsets from time to time"
4.
A tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging.  Synonym: swage.
5.
The act of upsetting something.  Synonyms: overturn, turnover.
6.
An improbable and unexpected victory.  Synonym: overturn.



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"Upset" Quotes from Famous Books



... "She is terribly upset. You see, the Squire was the only father she had ever known; and had he been really so he could not have been kinder. It is a grievous loss to me also, after ten years of happiness here; but I have had but little time to think of my own loss yet, I have been too occupied ...
— Colonel Thorndyke's Secret • G. A. Henty
... mental calculation is a typical case of this sort of attention. But often the readjustment is more difficult. Factors are introduced which at first refuse to be reconciled with the rest of the conscious content. The attentive equilibrium is upset, and there are violent shifts back and forth as it seeks to recover itself. These are the cases of violent emotion. Between these two extremes comes every shade of difficulty in the readjustment, and of consequent intensity in emotional ...
— Sex and Society • William I. Thomas
... more prominent, the child begins to turn its face away from the light because it makes its eyes smart, and complains not so much of soreness as of a peppery, burning, itching sensation in its nose and throat. The tongue is coated, the stomach mildly upset; the little patient is more uncomfortable and fretful than seriously ill. This condition drags on, without apparently getting anywhere, for from two to four days, during which time it is often very difficult even for the most experienced physician ...
— Preventable Diseases • Woods Hutchinson
... outside withdrew across the street to grapple with the problem before them. It was obviously impossible for civilized men to sacrifice Sam, even if they could catch him—which they could not. Sam had bolted through the dining-room, upset the Chinaman in the kitchen, and fallen over a bucket of ashes in the coal-shed in his flight for freedom. He had not stopped at that, but had scurried off up the railroad track. The general opinion among the spectators was that he had, by this time, ...
— The Uphill Climb • B. M. Bower
... for the bear costume made its wearer clumsy and he awkwardly tripped and nearly upset Patty. But she good-naturedly tried the steps over and over until they ...
— Patty Blossom • Carolyn Wells


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