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upset English

Meaning upset meaning

What does upset mean?
Definitions in simple English

upset Noun

— A disturbance or disruption. My late arrival caused the professor considerable upset. — An unexpected win. The Nimrods defeated the Blue Devils yesterday in a stunning upset.

upset Adjective

— Very angry or very sad. He was upset after someone said bad things to him very loudly. — Something is upset if it is in turned in the wrong direction like something that was dropped; turned in a direction with the bottom part up and the top part down. When they played with a ball in the room, a cup was upset and all the milk went onto the floor.

upset Verb

— If you upset someone, you make them angry, anxious, stressed, or unhappy. — If you upset something, you disturb it, disrupt it, or change it to make it worse. — If you upset something, you tip it or turn it upside down.

upset

— verb disturb the balance or stability of The hostile talks upset the peaceful relations between the two countries — verb cause to lose one's composure — verb (= trouble) move deeply This book upset me A troubling thought — adjective used of an unexpected defeat of a team favored to win the Bills' upset victory over the Houston Oilers — noun (= overthrow) the act of disturbing the mind or body his carelessness could have caused an ecological upset she was unprepared for this sudden overthrow of their normal way of living — noun (= disturbance) an unhappy and worried mental state there was too much anger and disturbance she didn't realize the upset she caused me — adjective (= disquieted, distressed, disturbed, worried) afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief too upset to say anything 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 — adjective (= broken, confused, disordered) thrown into a state of disarray or confusion troops fleeing in broken ranks a confused mass of papers on the desk the small disordered room with everything so upset — adjective mildly physically distressed an upset stomach — verb defeat suddenly and unexpectedly The foreign team upset the local team — noun the act of upsetting something he was badly bruised by the upset of his sled at a high speed — noun (= swage) a tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging — adjective (= overturned, upturned) having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottom an overturned car the upset pitcher of milk sat on an upturned bucket — noun an improbable and unexpected victory the biggest upset since David beat Goliath — noun (= disorder) a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning the doctor prescribed some medicine for the disorder everyone gets stomach upsets from time to time — verb (= swage) form metals with a swage — verb (= overturn, turn over, knock over) cause to overturn from an upright or normal position The cat knocked over the flower vase the clumsy customer turned over the vase he tumped over his beer

Synonyms upset synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as upset?

upset English » English

overturn disturb distress worry agitate angry overthrow trouble shock worried turn over sadden distressed annoy irritate disturbed disrupt confused capsize perplexed knock over dazed topple swage reverse overturned excite disturbance disordered disorder disconcert confuse bother annoyed turnover tip over stir up spill ruffle perturb fluster discompose damage anger tumble startle shake provoke perturbation offend

Topics upset topics

What do people use upset to talk about?
Language and thought Emotion Feel bad Sad

Upset
Language and thought Emotion Feel bad Sad

Dislike
Language and thought Emotion Feel bad

Angry
Physical actions Move Move in a direction Move down

Fall
Person Healthy Disease

Stomach illness

Conjugation upset conjugation

How do you conjugate upset?

upset · verb

Examples upset examples

How do I use upset in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Don't get upset!
Tom never seems to get upset no matter what Mary does.
My wife is very upset.
If I knew it was going to upset you so much, I wouldn't have mentioned it.
You still seem to be upset.
Tom isn't going to be upset if Mary doesn't do that.
Tom isn't likely to be upset.
Do you really think Tom is upset?
I know that Tom and Mary are upset.
I understand why Tom is upset.
Did Tom look upset?
I was kind of upset.
I know that you're upset with me.
Tom is quite upset.
Bruce was terribly upset when his girlfriend left him, but he soon got over it.
The cat upset the can of fish in order to eat the contents.
The news upset me.
The teacher was really upset and threw Johnny out of class.
Jane was upset.
Children get upset when things are not fair.
To have more than one problem before him at one time makes him irritable, upset and exasperated.
My stomach is often a bit upset after eating spicy food.
You look upset.
She is upset.
I'm sorry to upset your plans.
The journalist was too upset to distinguish vice from virtue.
It was a big upset when Hingis was eliminated in the first round.
Don't get upset about small things. Try to think of things like a rich person who can afford not to argue.
He tends to get upset over nothing.
My puppy died, and I'm terribly upset.
I was a little upset.
Don't be upset.

Movie subtitles

He's upset because we just saw some guy get shot in the face.
That's not why I'm upset, Sister Monica Joan.
I'm upset because he's going for three years.
You can't text me a thousand times every time you're upset, Eddie.
I'm not upset, I'm out of my fucking mind!
I'd hardly be this upset if she was after Dubois.
You're not upset about this?
So, you're not upset that I lied?
Why should you want to go searching for something and getting upset?
Gerda's last letter upset me so.
Don't be upset that I can't come tonight to your engagement party!
No need to get upset, we're both men.
What is that herb that made him so upset?
I know those newsmongers will upset me.
You'll get upset.
Don't be upset!
Just don't be upset if this doesn't work, okay?
She's really upset about it?
You wanted me to get upset.
I'm still upset about earlier.
I was upset, I didn't even have it in me to cry.
She had 3 brandies. She was very upset and angry.
I hope she can forgive me. It was my fault she was upset.
We've all been pretty upset.
You mustn't get upset, Franz.
I do not want to upset him.
I'm all upset tonight, Nick.
I'M VERY SORRY, BUT AS A MATTER OF FACT, I'M QUITE UPSET.
Because he seemed upset when he saw me, and it's always love that upsets a man, you know.
Some of the biggest and littlest men in history have been upset by love.
I mean, you said something before we left the house about having once been upset by a woman.
Madame shouldn't get so upset.
They've upset the settlement we reached last summer.
He doesn't want me to eat them, and naturally I don't want to upset him. Naturally not.
Naturally, you're upset.
Because you're beginning to upset me.

News and current affairs

And cheating did indeed upset the broader superpower relationship.
Even the Italian elections in late February seem not to have upset markets too much (at least so far).
His aim is to overturn the country's political establishment and upset the European Union by taking Italy out of the euro.
War and chaos in the Middle East or just a moral or political vacuum will directly affect and upset the security of the EU and all its member states.
No one on the Council wanted to upset Germany, for all of them recognized that the same problem could one day confront them.
Kissinger focuses on inter-state relations - on how, from one country's perspective, to avoid war with other countries while deterring them from aggression or other actions likely to upset a regional or global balance of power.
When America's misguided war in Iraq deposed Saddam Hussein in 2003, it upset a delicate balance.
The public is upset about top managers' salaries and the fact that big German companies fire workers despite record profits.
Maybe some Europeans and Japanese are upset that they have consistently earned such poor returns on their US investments.
Mental health services around the world are largely based on the assumption that being upset or disoriented is a sort of condition like medical illnesses.
But the popularity of Mayor Yurii Luzhkov has plummeted and an upset could be in the making.
But the 1991 Persian Gulf War upset whatever solace Israel could take from the past.
This rather un-Darwinian perspective so upset a British paleontologist, the late Beverly Halstead, that in 1984 he traveled to Kyoto to confront Imanishi.
But there are far more important issues - above all, freedom of speech, including the freedom to say and write things that annoy, even upset, many.
For a while, everybody played politely along; but the tricky double-think involved in this was exposed when the younger brother, Ed, won the leadership, by a razor-thin margin, in a last-minute upset.
But this is about vital European interests. War and chaos in the Middle East or just a moral or political vacuum will directly affect and upset the security of the EU and all its member states.
Sharply raising the government's already outsized profile in the economy will upset this delicate balance leading to slower growth in the future.
He becomes upset if he calls and I don't answer.
Better to stick to a tried and failed policy than to upset the apple cart, even if the apples were rotten.
Granted, Stalin's urges were bloody and violent, but the impulse to upset the applecart on a whim remains incredibly familiar to Russians.
No one on the Council wanted to upset Germany, for all of them recognized that the same problem could one day confront them. No warning was issued.

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