upset

Meanings

Adjective

• Angry, distressed or unhappy.
• Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to vomit.

Noun

• Disturbance or disruption.
• An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win.
• An overturn.
• An upset stomach.
• 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.
• 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

• To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
• To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).
• To tip or overturn (something).
• To defeat unexpectedly.
• To be upset or knocked over.
• 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.

Related

Similar words

• See angry, distressed and unhappy
• disruption, disturbance
• (make someone angry, distressed or unhappy): See anger, distress, forset, and sadden
• disrupt, disturb, forset, turn upside down
• invert, overturn, forset, tip, tip over, tip up, turn over, turn upside down

Origin

• From Middle English upset, from Middle English upsetten, corresponding to up- + set. Cognate with Middle Low German upset.