Upset

Quick meaning: Upset is an adjective meaning (of a person, predicative only) Angry, distressed, or unhappy.

Meaning

(of a person, predicative only) Angry, distressed, or unhappy.

More Meanings

1. (of a stomach or gastrointestinal tract) Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to vomit.
2. (uncountable) Disturbance or disruption.
3. (countable, sports, politics) An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win.
4. (automobile insurance) An overturn.
5. An upset stomach.
6. (mathematics) 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.
7. (aviation) 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.

Example Sentences

He was upset when she refused his friendship.

Bryan came home from school with an upset tummy.

His stomach was upset, so he didn't want to move.

My children often get upset with their classmates.

Word Forms

• upsets
• upsetting

Synonyms for upset

Depending on context, synonyms include angry, disruption, disturbance, distraction, agitate, bother.

Antonyms for upset

Common opposites include alleviate, appease, calm, comfort, compose, quieten.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include troubled, distressed, worried, perturbation, disturb, trouble.

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