Skip to definition.
Get the FREE one-click dictionary software for Windows.


Adjective: upsetting  úp'se-ting
  1. Causing an emotional disturbance
    "an upsetting experience"
    - disconcerting
Verb: upset (upset,upsetting)  úp'set
  1. Disturb the balance or stability of
    "The hostile talks upset the peaceful relations between the two countries"
     
  2. Cause to lose one's composure
    - discompose, untune, disconcert, discomfit
     
  3. Cause profound worry; make to feel uncomfortable or anxious
    "This book upset me"
    - disturb, trouble
     
  4. Cause to overturn from an upright or normal position
    "the clumsy customer upset the vase"
    - overturn, tip over, turn over, knock over, bowl over, tump over
     
  5. Form metals with a swage
    - swage
     
  6. Defeat suddenly and unexpectedly
    "The foreign team upset the local team"

See also: displeasing, upsetter

Type of: affect, arouse, defeat, displace, disturb, elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, forge, form, get the better of, impress, kindle, mold [N. Amer], mould [Brit, Cdn], move, overcome, provoke, raise, shape, strike, touch, work

Encyclopedia: Upset