upset
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
arts
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aviation
business
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government
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insurance
lifestyle
mathematics
metallurgy
metalworking
natural-sciences
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politics
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Etymology: From Middle English upset (“the act of setting up; establishment”), from Middle English upsetten, corresponding to up- + set. Cognate with Middle Low German upset (“setup; arrangement”).
Base: set
Affixes: up-
Inflected forms:
form: more upset
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most upset
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: upsets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: upsets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: upsetting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: upset
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: upset
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Angry, distressed, or unhappy
pos: adj
tags: predicative
examples: He was upset when she refused his friendship.
My children often get upset with their classmates.
We were shocked when we asked a disruptive man in the front row to move to the back, and when he subsequently left, the producer's helpers were so upset for him they gave him two free tickets to the next 'women's music' production.
gloss: Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to vomit.
pos: adj
examples: His stomach was upset, so he didn't want to move.
Bryan came home from school with an upset tummy.
gloss: Disturbance or disruption.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: My late arrival caused the professor considerable upset.
gloss: An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: But it is probably the biggest upset for the away side since Ronnie Radford smashed a famous goal as Hereford defeated Newcastle 2-1 in 1972.
Sanders’s win in Michigan was one of the greatest upsets in modern political history.
The sudden rise of Shah’s party is a stunning upset for the small Himalayan country of 30 million wedged between India and China.
gloss: An overturn.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: "collision and upset": impact with another object or an overturn for whatever reason.
gloss: An upset stomach.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: “Bob, let's cancel the baby sitter. With this upset stomach, I can't go out tonight.”
“Sure you can, Liz! Try Pepto-Bismol. Hospital tests prove it relieves upsets. And it's great for indigestion or nausea, too!”
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was the unfavorable interaction of severe vertical air drafts and large longitudinal control displacements resulting in a longitudinal upset from which a successful recovery was not made.
gloss: A woven row supporting the foundation rods for the uprights of a basket.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Willow basket making, an artisan inserting bye-stakes in the upsets.
gloss: To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I’m sure the bad news will upset him, but he needs to know.
gloss: To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Introducing a foreign species can upset the ecological balance.
The fatty meat upset his stomach.
gloss: To tip or overturn (something).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 1924, W. D. Ross translator, Aristitle, Metaphysics, Book 1, Part 9, The Classical Library, Nashotah, Wisconsin, 2001.
But this argument, which first Anaxagoras and later Eudoxus and certain others used, is very easily upset; for it is not difficult to collect many insuperable objections to such a view.
gloss: To defeat unexpectedly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Truman upset Dewey in the 1948 US presidential election.
gloss: To be upset or knocked over.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The carriage upset when the horse bolted.
[T]he locomotive exploded and upset, and was completely wrecked.
gloss: To set up; to put upright.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: R. of Brunne
with sail on mast upset
gloss: To thicken and shorten a soft or heated piece of metal, by forging or hammering on the end, to shape, for example, rivets or internal combustion engine valves.
pos: verb
gloss: To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.
pos: verb
gloss: To support with an upset (type of woven row).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Very coarse work is sided up without an upsett, or is upsetted with a pair instead of a wale.
Synonyms: in a tizzy
agitate
freak
bother
bring down
discompose
disconcert
enturbulate
disturb
mortify
perturb
put out
ruffle
throw off balance
unsettle
upset
flurry
Antonyms: alleviate
appease
calm
comfort
compose
quieten
Derived words: upset price
upset stomach
jet upset
process upset
upset the pot
upsetting thermometer
upset the applecart
upset the natives
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: ontsteld
lang: Afrikaans
word: omgekrap
lang: Bulgarian
word: разстроен
roman: razstroen
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 唔舒服
roman: m⁴ syu¹ fuk⁶
lang: Dutch
word: overstuur
lang: Dutch
word: van streek
lang: Finnish
word: sekaisin
lang: French
word: dérangé
lang: French
word: perturbé
lang: French
word: bouleversé
lang: French
word: remué
lang: German
word: verstimmt
lang: German
word: gereizt
lang: German
word: nervös
lang: German
word: verkorkst
lang: German
word: verdorben
lang: Hungarian
word: elrontott (gyomor/has)
lang: Khmer
word: ទល់ពោះ
roman: tʊəl pʊəh
lang: Khmer
word: ហល់ផ្ទៃ
roman: hal ptey
lang: Khmer
word: អជីរណា
roman: a’ciirea’naa
lang: Polish
word: rozstrojony
lang: Romanian
word: deranjat
lang: Swedish
word: orolig