upset

Meanings

• an unhappy and worried mental state
  • "she didn't realize the upset she caused me"
• the act of disturbing the mind or body
  • "his carelessness could have caused an ecological upset"
• a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning
  • "everyone gets stomach upsets from time to time"
• a tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging
• the act of upsetting something
  • "he was badly bruised by the upset of his sled at a high speed"
• an improbable and unexpected victory
  • "the biggest upset since David beat Goliath"
• disturb the balance or stability of
  • "The hostile talks upset the peaceful relations between the two countries"
• cause to lose one's composure
• move deeply
  • "This book upset me"
• cause to overturn from an upright or normal position
• form metals with a swage
• defeat suddenly and unexpectedly
  • "The foreign team upset the local team"
• afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief
  • "too upset to say anything"
• thrown into a state of disarray or confusion
  • "with everything so upset"
• used of an unexpected defeat of a team favored to win
  • "the Bills' upset victory over the Houston Oilers"
• mildly physically distressed
  • "an upset stomach"
• having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottom
  • "the upset pitcher of milk"

Synonyms

bowl over, broken, confused, derangement, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, disorder, disordered, disquieted, distressed, disturb, disturbance, disturbed, knock over, overthrow, overturn, overturned, perturbation, swage, tip over, trouble, tump over, turn over, turnover, untune, upturned, worried