Usually means: Disturbed or disappointed by unexpected event.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. upset: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. upset: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. upset: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. upset: Collins English Dictionary
  5. upset: Vocabulary.com
  6. Upset, upset: Wordnik
  7. upset: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. upset: Wiktionary
  9. upset: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. upset: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. upset: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. upset: Dictionary.com
  13. upset (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. upset: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Upset (band), Upset (competition), Upset (horse), Upset (sports), Upset: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Upset: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. upset: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. upset: Rhymezone
  19. upset: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. upset: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. upset: Free Dictionary
  22. upset: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. upset: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. upset: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. upset: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. UPSET: Acronym Finder
  2. upset: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. upset: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Upset: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sports Terms (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See upseting as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (of a person, predicative only) Angry, distressed, or unhappy.
adjective:  (of a stomach or gastrointestinal tract) Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to vomit.
noun:  (uncountable) Disturbance or disruption.
noun:  (countable, sports, politics) An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win.
noun:  (automobile insurance) An overturn.
noun:  An upset stomach.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (basketry) A woven row supporting the foundation rods for the uprights of a basket.
verb:  (transitive) To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
verb:  (transitive) To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).
verb:  (transitive) To tip or overturn (something).
verb:  (transitive) To defeat unexpectedly.
verb:  (intransitive) To be upset or knocked over.
verb:  (obsolete) To set up; to put upright.
verb:  To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end.
verb:  To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.
verb:  (transitive, basketry) To support with an upset (type of woven row).

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