upset
IPA: ʌpsˈɛt
noun
- (uncountable) Disturbance or disruption.
- (countable, sports, politics) An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win.
- (automobile insurance) An overturn.
- An upset stomach.
- (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.
- (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.
verb
- (transitive) To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
- (transitive) To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).
- (transitive) To tip or overturn (something).
- (transitive) To defeat unexpectedly.
- (intransitive) To be upset or knocked over.
- (obsolete) 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.
adjective
- (of a person) Angry, distressed, or unhappy.
- (of a stomach or gastrointestinal tract, referred to as stomach) Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to vomit.
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Examples of "upset" in Sentences
- The test results were upsetting.
- It was upsetting, to say the least.
- It is upsetting to see the accusation.
- He was greatly upset by her loquacity.
- Anything that reminds you is upsetting.
- Placating the upset people is not so easy.
- His disregard for the way of things is upsetting.
- Is the ranking for one of the shows upsetting you
- This was the largest upset in the history of boxing.
- Are the editors upset with the density of the article or the content