Meaning

7 senses
  1. (uncountable)Disturbance or disruption.

    My late arrival caused the professor considerable upset.

  2. (countable)An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win.

    Überraschungssieg

    an improbable and unexpected victory

  3. (countable, uncountable)An overturn.

    "collision and upset": impact with another object or an overturn for whatever reason.

  4. (countable, uncountable)An upset stomach.

  5. (countable, uncountable)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.

  6. (countable, uncountable)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.

  7. (countable, uncountable)A woven row supporting the foundation rods for the uprights of a basket.

Examples

1714 sentences
  1. Tom is obviously a little upset.

    Том, очевидно, трохи засмучений. — deniko

  2. We didn't want to upset Tom.

    Ми не хотіли засмучувати Тома. — deniko

    ruМы не хотели расстраивать Тома. — odexed

  3. Tom appears to be quite upset.

    Том виглядає досить засмученим. — tikan0

    deTom scheint ganz aufgebracht zu sein. — raggione

  4. Tom told me you were upset.

    Том сказав мені, що ви засмучені. — Anjy

    ruТом сказал мне, что ты расстроен. — marafon

    deTom sagte mir, ihr wäret verstimmt. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  5. Are you still upset about that?

    Ти все ще цим засмучений? — deniko

Translations

4 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
sports: unexpected victory of a competitor:

Origin

From Middle English upset (“the act of setting up; establishment”), from Middle English up

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”).

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Forms

plural: upsets
Singularupset
Pluralupsets

regular

Synonyms

10 synonyms
disturbance, disruption:disturbanceB1distractionB2disruption
Close in meaning
  • the act of upsetting something:overturnturnover
  • the act of disturbing the mind or body:derangementoverthrow
  • a tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging:swage
  • an improbable and unexpected victory:overturn
  • a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning:disorder
  • an unhappy and worried mental state:disturbanceperturbation

Word family

3 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • be very upset
  • would be upset
  • be upset if
  • an upset stomach
  • to be upset
  • a little upset
  • was so upset
  • get upset
  • will be upset
  • still upset
  • upset stomach
  • an an upset

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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