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upsetting

verbnounadjectivecommon in dialogue

An overturning or disarrangement.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of upsetpresent participle and gerund of upset

noun

  1. 1

    An overturning or disarrangement.

    the upsettings of all their careful plans

adjective

  1. 1

    Causing upset; distressing, unsettling, hurtful.

    He found taking his cat to the vet to be put down very upsetting.

    The bodies lying at the scene of the crash were an upsetting sight.

  2. 2

    Conceited; presumptuous.

Forms

plural
upsettings
comparative
more upsetting
superlative
most upsetting
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).