English dictionary
upset
nounPronunciation
ˈʌpsɛt
Parts of speech
Definitions
noun
- Disturbance or disruption.
- An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win.
- (automobile insurance) 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.
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.
Example sentences
My late arrival caused the professor considerable upset.
"collision and upset": impact with another object or an overturn for whatever reason.
I’m sure the bad news will upset him, but he needs to know.
Introducing a foreign species can upset the ecological balance.
Truman upset Dewey in the 1948 US presidential election.
The carriage upset when the horse bolted.
He was upset when she refused his friendship.
His stomach was upset, so he didn't want to move.