Skip to content

upsetting

adjective

  1. cause emotional or physical anguish
L342270 on Wikidata ↗

Wiktionary

adj

  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. Conceited; presumptuous.

noun

  1. An overturning or disarrangement.

    the upsettings of all their careful plans

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of upset
upsetting — meaning, definition (adjective) · Vinony