Synonyms for Upsetting:

• adj.

  •aggravating (adjective)
  • exasperating,
  • Irksome,
  • grating,
  • vexing,
  • Enraging,
  • antagonizing,
  • infuriating,
  • Bedeviling,
  • pestering,
  • Harassing,
  • irritating,
  • tormenting,
  • aggravating,
  • exacerbating,
  • teasing,
  • inflaming,
  • bothersome,
  • annoying.
  •confusing (adjective)
  • disorienting.
  •demoralizing (adjective)
  • de moralizing,
  • de-moralizing.
  •disagreeable (adjective)
  • unpalatable,
  • dragger,
  • painer,
  • objectionable.
  •disruptive (adjective)
  • off-base,
  • out of line,
  • troublemaking,
  • out-of-order,
  • out-of-line.
  •disturbing (adjective)
  • inconvenient,
  • alarming,
  • pessimistic,
  • consequential,
  • impeding,
  • perplexing,
  • provoking,
  • ominous,
  • startling,
  • laborious,
  • onerous,
  • Discomforting,
  • dismaying,
  • foreboding,
  • uncertain,
  • creepy,
  • tiresome,
  • prophetic,
  • unpleasant,
  • sinister,
  • burdensome,
  • hard,
  • toilsome,
  • severe,
  • difficult,
  • threatening,
  • worrying,
  • wearisome,
  • gloomy,
  • Discommoding,
  • frightening.
  •embarrassing (adjective)
  • in-convenient,
  • unpropitious,
  • most discomfiting,
  • most discommoding,
  • dis-commodious,
  • most rattling,
  • uneasy,
  • more discomfiting,
  • most mortifying,
  • more rattling,
  • un easy,
  • un-easier,
  • un-propitious,
  • more discommodious,
  • un-comfortable,
  • dis concerting,
  • more bewildering,
  • most discommodious,
  • most disconcerting,
  • most compromising,
  • most exasperating,
  • be-wildering,
  • dis commodious,
  • un easiest,
  • more compromising,
  • un propitious,
  • un-easy,
  • un seemly,
  • more exasperating,
  • in convenient,
  • ex asperating,
  • most bewildering,
  • un-easiest,
  • un-seemly,
  • dis-concerting,
  • most troubling,
  • in-commodious,
  • more discommoding,
  • un-seemliest,
  • be wildering,
  • ex-asperating,
  • un seemlier,
  • un seemliest,
  • in commodious,
  • un-seemlier,
  • in-opportune,
  • in opportune,
  • more troubling,
  • more disconcerting,
  • more mortifying,
  • un comfortable,
  • un easier.
  •exceptionable (adjective)
  • un wanted,
  • un-wanted.
  •grievous (adjective)
  • in tolerable,
  • un bearable,
  • dis quieting,
  • dis-quieting,
  • more heart-rending,
  • more heart rending,
  • most heart-rending,
  • heart rending,
  • in-tolerable,
  • more wounding,
  • most afflicting,
  • most heart rending,
  • egregious,
  • most wounding,
  • more afflicting,
  • un-bearable.
  •hurtful (adjective)
  • pre judicial,
  • dis advantageous,
  • un-kind,
  • most hurting,
  • un kind,
  • un kindest,
  • mischievous,
  • un-kinder,
  • pre-judicial,
  • more hurting,
  • dis-advantageous,
  • un kinder,
  • un-kindest.
  •nerve-racking (adjective)
  • more aggravating,
  • nerve racking,
  • most aggravating,
  • most stressful,
  • nerveracking,
  • stressful,
  • more stressful.
  •objectionable (adjective)
  • exceptionable.
  •Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • nerve-racking,
  • confusing,
  • terrific,
  • Infestive,
  • trying,
  • distressful,
  • unsettling,
  • poignant,
  • heart-rending,
  • Rankling,
  • unsatisfactory,
  • thorny,
  • no good,
  • for the birds,
  • not up to par,
  • troublous,
  • hurtful,
  • not good enough,
  • worrisome,
  • disruptive,
  • tight,
  • demoralizing,
  • grievous,
  • disagreeable,
  • disturbing,
  • troublesome,
  • perturbing,
  • Discommodious,
  • vexatious.
  •poignant (adjective)
  • in tenser,
  • more agitating,
  • in-tenser,
  • in-tensest,
  • most agitating,
  • in tense,
  • in-tense.
  •revolutionary (adjective)
  • mutinous,
  • rebellious,
  • revolutionary,
  • upheaving,
  • restructuring.
  •sad (adjective)
  • more dejecting,
  • dis composing,
  • tear jerking,
  • tearful,
  • dis-composing,
  • more discomposing,
  • more disheartening,
  • most dejecting,
  • dis-heartening,
  • most discomposing,
  • most disheartening,
  • dis heartening,
  • most saddening,
  • tearjerking,
  • de-pressing,
  • more saddening,
  • de pressing.
  •terrific (adjective)
  • more terrorizing,
  • most terrorizing.
  •thorny (adjective)
  • more harassing,
  • most harassing.
  •tight (adjective)
  • ex-acting,
  • pre carious,
  • pre-carious,
  • ex acting.
  •troublesome (adjective)
  • more murder,
  • in tractable,
  • un-governable,
  • more infestive,
  • most infestive,
  • most vexing,
  • in festive,
  • up hill,
  • more vexing,
  • in-tractable,
  • in-festive,
  • most murder,
  • up-hill.
  •trying (adjective)
  • pro vocative,
  • pro-vocative.
  •unsatisfactory (adjective)
  • un worthy,
  • un satisfactory,
  • dis-appointing,
  • not up par,
  • un-desirable,
  • un suitable,
  • dis appointing,
  • un desirable,
  • un-satisfactory,
  • not par,
  • un worthier,
  • un worthiest,
  • junkier,
  • un-worthiest,
  • un acceptable,
  • not to par,
  • junkiest,
  • un welcome,
  • for birds,
  • un-acceptable,
  • un-suitable,
  • un-worthier.
  •unsettling (adjective)
  • un settling,
  • un-settling.
  •worrisome (adjective)
  • most unnerving,
  • un nerving,
  • un-nerving,
  • more unnerving.

• n.

  •confusion (noun)
  • de-moralization,
  • up settings,
  • dis-arranging,
  • be wilderments,
  • disarrangings,
  • dis-orientations,
  • dis tractions,
  • unsettlings,
  • up-settings,
  • confoundings,
  • up setting,
  • upsettings,
  • de-moralizations,
  • dis arranging,
  • abashings,
  • disturbings,
  • dis-tractions,
  • be-wilderment,
  • mixup mystifications,
  • dis-traction,
  • de moralizations,
  • dis orientation,
  • up-setting,
  • dis orientations,
  • be-fuddling,
  • be fuddling,
  • be-wilderments,
  • dumbfoundings,
  • embarrassings,
  • de moralization,
  • perplexings,
  • dis traction,
  • embroilings,
  • be wilderment,
  • un-settlings,
  • discomfitings,
  • tanglings,
  • stirring ups,
  • obscurings,
  • Clutterings,
  • un settlings,
  • befuddlings,
  • dis-orientation.
  •disconcerting (noun)
  • disconcerting.
  •displeasing (noun)
  • displeasing.
  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • pother,
  • mixup mystification,
  • blurrings,
  • disorientations,
  • stirring up,
  • disorientation,
  • Addlings.

• v.

  •aggravating (verb)
  • troubling,
  • Fretting,
  • Discomposing,
  • hassling,
  • peeving,
  • baiting,
  • Harrying,
  • badgering,
  • irking,
  • chafing,
  • Arousing,
  • Envenoming,
  • needling,
  • Bothering,
  • nagging.
  •agitating (verb)
  • jolting,
  • shaking,
  • quavering,
  • shuddering,
  • Flustering,
  • churning,
  • shivering,
  • agitating,
  • stirring,
  • disquieting,
  • palpitating,
  • quivering,
  • twitching,
  • quaking,
  • jarring.
  •deranging (verb)
  • tumbling,
  • Misplacing,
  • meddling,
  • Hashing,
  • mixing up,
  • Ruffling,
  • Messing,
  • Disarranging,
  • Dislocating,
  • Whisking,
  • tossing,
  • Scrambling,
  • Blurring,
  • Disorganizing,
  • Rummaging,
  • swirling,
  • Mussing,
  • Cluttering,
  • capsizing,
  • Roughening,
  • Deranging,
  • fermenting,
  • scattering,
  • Muddling,
  • tousling,
  • Displacing,
  • roiling,
  • Convulsing,
  • Jumbling,
  • Botching,
  • tampering,
  • Rumpling,
  • rippling,
  • confounding,
  • Mislaying,
  • Disordering,
  • Disheveling,
  • whipping.
  •inverting (verb)
  • upending,
  • Transposing,
  • Overturning,
  • Reversing,
  • upturning,
  • changing,
  • Inverting.
  •revolting (verb)
  • rebelling,
  • revolting,
  • Mutinying,
  • shaking up,
  • Overthrowing.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • pitiable,
  • grim,
  • depressing,
  • affecting,
  • piteous,
  • moody,
  • unhappy,
  • soul-destroying,
  • melting,
  • mournful,
  • shattering,
  • disheartening,
  • cheerless,
  • miserable,
  • sadly,
  • regrettable,
  • gut-wrenching,
  • lachrymose,
  • confusion,
  • discouraging,
  • elegiac,
  • heartbreaking,
  • unfortunate,
  • distressing.
  •
  • pathetic,
  • touching,
  • pitiful,
  • painful,
  • tragic,
  • dismal,
  • agonizing,
  • bittersweet,
  • intrusive,
  • sentimental.
  •
  • dark.
  •
  • black,
  • sad,
  • terrible,
  • bitter.
  •awkward
  • embarrassing.
  •tiring
  • wearing.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • blue,
  • invite,
  • turn upside down,
  • Overcoming,
  • bewilder,
  • bewilderment,
  • derange,
  • provocative,
  • nettlesome,
  • desperate,
  • chilling,
  • overwhelm,
  • discompose,
  • defy,
  • inopportune,
  • humiliating,
  • overthrow,
  • undermining,
  • harass,
  • inappropriate,
  • electrical,
  • taut,
  • inflammatory,
  • appalling,
  • troubled,
  • turn over,
  • exhilarating,
  • maddening,
  • wretched,
  • overwhelming,
  • astounding,
  • awful,
  • exciting,
  • reprehensible,
  • confuse,
  • mind-blowing,
  • ill-fated,
  • pain,
  • amazing,
  • oppressive,
  • frustrating,
  • penetrating,
  • distract,
  • disconcert,
  • acute,
  • tense,
  • downfall,
  • off-putting,
  • Distracting,
  • stir,
  • conquest,
  • lamentable,
  • tough,
  • impressive,
  • suspenseful,
  • galling,
  • agitate,
  • Angering,
  • confound,
  • ghastly,
  • enigmatic,
  • arouse,
  • inundate,
  • outrageous,
  • harmful,
  • overturn,
  • damaging,
  • ruinous,
  • answer,
  • victory,
  • traumatic,
  • pull down,
  • inauspicious,
  • intense,
  • hapless,
  • stinging,
  • blow down,
  • triumph,
  • puzzling,
  • baffling,
  • saddening,
  • enrage,
  • torturous,
  • tiring,
  • piquant,
  • overmastering,
  • galvanic,
  • heartrending,
  • racking,
  • contradiction,
  • cliff-hanging,
  • anxious,
  • stabbing,
  • inflame,
  • distraction,
  • horrific,
  • unnerving,
  • fretful,
  • catastrophic,
  • rough,
  • heart-breaking,
  • heavy,
  • clutter,
  • lugubrious,
  • destruction,
  • bewildering,
  • execrable,
  • Shaming,
  • disadvantageous,
  • subversion,
  • setback,
  • offend,
  • horrifying,
  • turnover,
  • shocking,
  • moving,
  • irritate,
  • pandemonium,
  • shameful,
  • reversal,
  • challenging,
  • tip over,
  • Plaguing,
  • demanding,
  • problematical,
  • serious,
  • striking,
  • astonishing,
  • mystifying,
  • plaguy,
  • nerve-wracking,
  • dolorous,
  • charged,
  • ill-omened,
  • capsize,
  • excite,
  • push down,
  • electric,
  • disorder,
  • blow over,
  • fraught,
  • calamitous,
  • pungent,
  • be inverted,
  • sombre,
  • agitation,
  • daunting,
  • disturbance,
  • unwieldy,
  • rout,
  • breathtaking,
  • vex,
  • upsetter,
  • Overset,
  • strained,
  • consuming,
  • tragical,
  • injurious,
  • awesome,
  • telling,
  • disarray,
  • inexpedient,
  • superfluity,
  • surprising,
  • commotion,
  • squeezing,
  • wake,
  • thrilling,
  • intoxicating,
  • Downthrow,
  • knock over,
  • rollover,
  • woeful,
  • ill timed,
  • awkward,
  • ravishing,
  • deplorable,
  • perturb,
  • horrible,
  • thrashing,
  • overpowering,
  • forlorn,
  • hideous,
  • throwing down,
  • displace,
  • mean,
  • heart-stirring,
  • piercing,
  • dreadful,
  • traumatizing,
  • wounding,
  • superabundance,
  • chaos,
  • educe,
  • topple,
  • dispiriting,
  • mortifying,
  • Star-crossed,
  • abominable,
  • evoke,
  • problematic,
  • Disrupting,
  • demolition,
  • too bad,
  • stimulative,
  • mysterious,
  • terrifying,
  • refutation,
  • wrong,
  • cumbersome,
  • sorrowful,
  • untimely,
  • intricate,
  • taxing,
  • provoke,
  • disastrous,
  • dislodge,
  • kindle,
  • harrowing,
  • offensive,
  • squelch,
  • bad,
  • ill-starred,
  • unlucky,
  • melancholy,
  • Discomfiting,
  • incensing,
  • enkindle,
  • staggering,
  • bother,
  • hopeless,
  • rebuttal,
  • funereal,
  • defeat,
  • stimulating,
  • tantalizing,
  • crushing,
  • upset,
  • excruciating,
  • heady,
  • elicit,
  • menacing,
  • soul-stirring,
  • disturb,
  • denial,
  • bring down,
  • discomfit,
  • redundancy,
  • Fatiguing,
  • suspensive,
  • plethora,
  • grave,
  • morose.

Paraphrases for Upsetting:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    unnerving, upset.

• Forward Entailment

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    changing.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    annoying, appalling, confusing, embarrassing, frustrating, harrowing, intrusive, troubling, uncomfortable, unpleasant, unsettling.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    affecting, altering, annoying, breaking, challenging, complaining, compromising, confusing, demolishing, devastating, dismantling, disturbing, eroding, hitting, hurting, impair, interfering, intruding, irritating, provoking, questioning, ravaging, reflecting, riding, ruining, shattering, shifting, smashing, spoiling, spurring, stimulating, toppling, touching, troubling, wrecking, Afflicting, Amending, Boosting, Bothering, Breaching, Bridging, Derailing, Destroying, Distorting, Encountering, Endangering, Harassing, Harming, Impacting, Impairing, Implicating, Infringing, Interrupting, Jeopardizing, Modifying, Overcoming, Overthrowing, Overturning, Reversing, Risking, Sacrificing, Violating, Contravening, Curtailing, Prejudicing, Subverting, undermining, raping, destabilizing, fuelling, sabotaging, bugging, jeopardising, unravelling, stupid, uprooting.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    disruptive, distressing, disturbing, painful, shocking, Distracting.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    heartbreaking, Disrupting.

Antonyms for Upsetting:

• adj.

  • disturbing
    easy, soothing, calming, convenient, happy, good, pleasing, delightful, encouraging, helpful, nice, pleasant, agreeable, settling, facile, comforting.