upset
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
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”).
PronunciationEdit
- Noun
- Adjective, verb
AdjectiveEdit
upset (comparative more upset, superlative most upset)
- (of a person) Angry, distressed, or unhappy.
- He was upset when she refused his friendship.
- My children often get upset with their classmates.
- (of a stomach or gastrointestinal tract, referred to as stomach) Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to vomit.
- His stomach was upset, so he didn't want to move.
SynonymsEdit
- (angry, distressed, unhappy): See angry, distressed and unhappy
- in a tizzy
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
angry, distressed, unhappy
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of a stomach
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NounEdit
upset (countable and uncountable, plural upsets)
- (uncountable) Disturbance or disruption.
- My late arrival caused the professor considerable upset.
- (countable, sports, politics) An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win.
- 2011 January 8, Paul Fletcher, “Stevenage 3 - 1 Newcastle”, in BBC[1]:
- 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.
- 2016 March 9, Harry Enten, “What The Stunning Bernie Sanders Win In Michigan Means”, in FiveThirtyEight[2]:
- Sanders’s win in Michigan was one of the greatest upsets in modern political history.
- (automobile insurance) An overturn.
- "collision and upset": impact with another object or an overturn for whatever reason.
- An upset stomach.
- 1958 May 12, advertisement, Life, volume 44, number 19, page 110 [3]:
- "Bob, let's cancel the babysitter. With this upset stomach, I can't go out tonight.
- "Try Pepto-Bismol. Hospital tests prove it relieves upsets. And it's great for indigestion or nausea, too!"
- 1958 May 12, advertisement, Life, volume 44, number 19, page 110 [3]:
- (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.
- 1965 June 1, Civil Aeronautics Board, “Synopsis”, in Aircraft Accident Report: Northwest Airlines, Inc., Boeing 720B, N724US, Near Miami, Florida, February 12, 1963[4], retrieved 25 November 2022, page 1:
- 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.
SynonymsEdit
- (disturbance, disruption): disruption, disturbance
- (unexpected victory of a competitor):
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
disturbance, disruption
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sports: unexpected victory of a competitor
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automobile insurance term
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upset stomach
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VerbEdit
upset (third-person singular simple present upsets, present participle upsetting, simple past and past participle upset)
- (transitive) To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
- I’m sure the bad news will upset him, but he needs to know.
- (transitive) To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).
- Introducing a foreign species can upset the ecological balance.
- The fatty meat upset his stomach.
- (transitive) To tip or overturn (something).
- 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.
- 1924, W. D. Ross translator, Aristitle, Metaphysics, Book 1, Part 9, The Classical Library, Nashotah, Wisconsin, 2001.
- (transitive) To defeat unexpectedly.
- Truman upset Dewey in the 1948 US presidential election.
- (intransitive) To be upset or knocked over.
- The carriage upset when the horse bolted.
- (obsolete) To set up; to put upright.
- R. of Brunne
- with sail on mast upset
- R. of Brunne
- 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.
SynonymsEdit
- (make someone angry, distressed or unhappy): See anger, distress, forset, and sadden
- (disturb, disrupt, adversely alter): disrupt, disturb, forset, turn upside down
- (tip, overturn): invert, overturn, forset, tip, tip over, tip up, turn over, turn upside down
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
make (a person) angry, distressed or unhappy
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disturb, disrupt, unfavorably alter
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tip, overturn
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