- upset
- v1. overturn, turn over, overset, throw over, push over, knock over or down; upend, tip over, capsize, keel or keel over, turn topsy-turvy, turn upside down, invert, reverse; topple, tumble, precipitate, Inf. spill.2. perturb, disquiet, discompose, discountenance, agitate, ruffle, fluster, flutter, flurry, distract, unsettle, put out; unnerve, unman, disconcert, Inf. faze, daunt, dismay, Inf. throw off balance; shock, jolt, jar, rattle, pull one up short; trouble, worry, scare, frighten, Inf. shake up, unhinge, traumatize, Inf. give [s.o.] fits, freak out, alarm, stun; anger, infuriate; sadden, grieve, bring to tears, make [s.o.] cry.3. put out of order, mess up, dishevel, turn topsyturvy; scatter, strew about, litter; disarrange, jumble, muddle, mix up, shuffle, confuse, disorganize; spoil, Sl. gum up the works, Inf. discombobulate, Inf. rock the boat, Inf. make waves.4. defeat, beat, rout, discomfit, worst, thrash, Inf. whip, Sl. cream, Sl. shellac; overthrow, vanquish, conquer, triumph over, win out or out over, Inf. beat out, be victorious over, get the better of, displace, depose; destroy, crush, trounce, Inf. stomp, trample, ruin, demolish; quash, quell, squash, squelch.adj5. overturned, turned over, knocked over or down; capsized, tipped over, upside down, topsyturvy, inverted, reversed; toppled, tumbled, Inf. spilled.6. disordered, disarranged, disorganized, at sixes and sevens; confused, muddled, macaronic, jumbled, Inf. every which way; chaotic, entangled, snarled up; messy, disorderly, helter-skelter, littered, littery; untidy, unkempt, disheveled, slovenly, slatternly, sloppy.7. perturbed, disquieted, discomposed, discountenanced, ruffled, agitated, flustered, unsettled, distracted; unnerved, unmanned, disconcerted, Inf. fazed, daunted, dismayed, Inf. thrown off balance; distressed, disturbed, troubled, worried, frightened, scared, afraid; traumatized, Sl. freaked out, beside oneself, frantic, hysterical, unhinged; furious, angry, mad, Inf. fit to be tied, Inf. blue in the face; sad, tear-full, broken-hearted, grief-stricken.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.