upsetting — Causing distress, worry, or emotional disturbance. Making someone feel troubled, anxious, or emotionally uncomfortable.
Part of speech: ADJECTIVE
Definition: Causing distress, worry, or emotional disturbance. Making someone feel troubled, anxious, or emotionally uncomfortable.
Pronunciation (IPA): /ˈʌpsetɪŋ/
Korean meaning: 속상하게 하는, 화나게 하는
Korean pronunciation: 업-셋-팅 (강세: 셋)
Example Sentences
- It's really upsetting when your phone dies right before an important call.
- The movie had an upsetting ending that made everyone cry.
- Finding out that pizza place closed down was genuinely upsetting.
upsetting
ADJECTIVE//ˈʌpsetɪŋ//
Causing distress, worry, or emotional disturbance. Making someone feel troubled, anxious, or emotionally uncomfortable.
Causing distress, worry, or emotional disturbance. Making someone feel troubled, anxious, or emotionally uncomfortable.
Sign up free to see all content
Etymology, AI images, rhymes, collocations & examples — all in one!
Start for Free
The more upsetting, the harder forgetting, the deeper regretting!
Sign up free to see all content
Etymology, AI images, rhymes, collocations & examples — all in one!
Start for Free🎤Pronunciation
🌳Etymology
Origin
From Middle English 'upset' meaning 'to set up' or 'to overturn,' combining 'up' (direction) and 'set' (to place). The emotional meaning of 'disturbing' developed from the literal sense of turning something upside down.
Sign up free to see all content
Etymology, AI images, rhymes, collocations & examples — all in one!
Start for Free🎵Rhyme
Sign up free to see all content
Etymology, AI images, rhymes, collocations & examples — all in one!
Start for Free📝Examples
“It's really upsetting when your phone dies right before an important call.”
“The movie had an upsetting ending that made everyone cry.”
“Finding out that pizza place closed down was genuinely upsetting.”
“She found the criticism about her work quite upsetting.”
Sign up free to see all content
Etymology, AI images, rhymes, collocations & examples — all in one!
Start for Free