Upset vs. Angry

Upset (adjective)

Angry, distressed{{,}} or unhappy.

“He was upset when she refused his friendship.”

“My children often get upset with their classmates.”

Upset (adjective)

Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to vomit.

“His stomach was upset, so he didn’t want to move.”

Upset (noun)

Disturbance or disruption.

“My late arrival caused the professor considerable upset.”

Upset (noun)

An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win.

Upset (noun)

An overturn.

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

Upset (noun)

An upset stomach.

Upset (noun)

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.

Upset (verb)

To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.

“I’m sure the bad news will upset him, but he needs to know.”

Upset (verb)

To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).

“Introducing a foreign species can upset the ecological balance.”

“The fatty meat upset his stomach.”

Upset (verb)

To tip or overturn (something).

Upset (verb)

To defeat unexpectedly.

“Truman upset Dewey in the 1948 US presidential election.”

Upset (verb)

To be upset or knocked over.

“The carriage upset when the horse bolted.””

Upset (verb)

To set up; to put upright.

Upset (verb)

To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end.

Upset (verb)

To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.

Angry (adjective)

Displaying or feeling anger.

“His face became angry.”

“An angry mob started looting the warehouse.”

Angry (adjective)

Inflamed and painful.

“The broken glass left two angry cuts across my arm.”

Angry (adjective)

Dark and stormy, menacing.

“Angry clouds raced across the sky.”