upset
upset is a 5-letter English word with 25 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, adjective, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To set up; to put upright. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive verb. To set up; to put upright.
- transitive verb. To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end.
- transitive verb. To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.
- transitive verb. To overturn, overthrow, or overset; as, to upset a carriage; to upset an argument.
- transitive verb. To disturb the self-possession of; to disorder the nerves of; to make ill; as, the fright upset her.
- intransitive verb. To become upset.
- adjective. Set up; fixed; determined; -- used chiefly or only in the phrase upset price; that is, the price fixed upon as the minimum for property offered in a public sale, or, in an auction, the price at which property is set up or started by the auctioneer, and the lowest price at which it will be sold.
- noun. The act of upsetting, or the state of being upset; an overturn; as, the wagon had an upset.
- noun. an improbable and unexpected victory
"the biggest upset since David beat Goliath"
- noun. the act of upsetting something
"he was badly bruised by the upset of his sled at a high speed"
- noun. the act of disturbing the mind or body
"his carelessness could have caused an ecological upset"
"she was unprepared for this sudden overthrow of their normal way of living"
- noun. a tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging
- noun. a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning
"the doctor prescribed some medicine for the disorder"
"everyone gets stomach upsets from time to time"
- noun. an unhappy and worried mental state
"there was too much anger and disturbance"
"she didn't realize the upset she caused me"
- verb. disturb the balance or stability of
"The hostile talks upset the peaceful relations between the two countries"
- verb. defeat suddenly and unexpectedly
"The foreign team upset the local team"
- verb. form metals with a swage
- verb. move deeply
"This book upset me"
"A troubling thought"
- verb. cause to lose one's composure
- verb. cause to overturn from an upright or normal position
"The cat knocked over the flower vase"
"the clumsy customer turned over the vase"
- adjective. used of an unexpected defeat of a team favored to win
"the Bills' upset victory over the Houston Oilers"
- adjective. thrown into a state of disarray or confusion
"troops fleeing in broken ranks"
"a confused mass of papers on the desk"
- adjective. afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief
"too upset to say anything"
"spent many disquieted moments"
- adjective. having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottom
"an overturned car"
"the upset pitcher of milk"
- adjective. mildly physically distressed
"an upset stomach"
Synonyms
overturn, turnover, derangement, overthrow, swage, disorder, disturbance, perturbation, disturb, trouble, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, untune, broken, confused, disordered, disquieted, distressed, disturbed, worried, overturned, upturned
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in upset:
Common word forms
upsets, upsetted, upsetter, upsetment, upsetting
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