What is another word for upsetting?
651 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ ʌpsˈɛtɪŋ], [ ʌpsˈɛtɪŋ], [ ʌ_p_s_ˈɛ_t_ɪ_ŋ]Table of Contents
Similar words for upsetting:- aggravating (adjective)
- confusing (adjective)
- demoralizing (adjective)
- disagreeable (adjective)
- disruptive (adjective)
- disturbing (adjective)
- embarrassing (adjective)
- exceptionable (adjective)
- grievous (adjective)
- hurtful (adjective)
- nerve-racking (adjective)
- objectionable (adjective)
- poignant (adjective)
- revolutionary (adjective)
- sad (adjective)
- terrific (adjective)
- thorny (adjective)
- tight (adjective)
- troublesome (adjective)
- trying (adjective)
- unsatisfactory (adjective)
- unsettling (adjective)
- worrisome (adjective)
- confusion (noun)
- disconcerting (noun)
- displeasing (noun)
- aggravating (verb)
- agitating (verb)
- deranging (verb)
- inverting (verb)
- revolting (verb)
- other synonyms
- awkward
- tiring
- other relevant words
Synonyms for Upsetting:
adj.
•aggravating (adjective)- exasperating,
- Irksome,
- grating,
- vexing,
- Enraging,
- antagonizing,
- infuriating,
- Bedeviling,
- pestering,
- Harassing,
- irritating,
- tormenting,
- aggravating,
- exacerbating,
- teasing,
- inflaming,
- bothersome,
- annoying.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- more aggravating,
- nerve racking,
- most aggravating,
- most stressful,
- nerveracking,
- stressful,
- more stressful.
- 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.
- 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.
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.
v.
•aggravating (verb)- troubling,
- Fretting,
- Discomposing,
- hassling,
- peeving,
- baiting,
- Harrying,
- badgering,
- irking,
- chafing,
- Arousing,
- Envenoming,
- needling,
- Bothering,
- nagging.
- jolting,
- shaking,
- quavering,
- shuddering,
- Flustering,
- churning,
- shivering,
- agitating,
- stirring,
- disquieting,
- palpitating,
- quivering,
- twitching,
- quaking,
- jarring.
- 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.
Other synonyms:
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- 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.
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- pathetic,
- touching,
- pitiful,
- painful,
- tragic,
- dismal,
- agonizing,
- bittersweet,
- intrusive,
- sentimental.
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- dark.
- 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:
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Equivalence
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Forward Entailment
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Verb, gerund or present participle
changing.
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Independent
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Adjective
troubling, confusing, unsettling, frustrating, unpleasant, annoying, embarrassing, harrowing, intrusive, appalling, uncomfortable.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
stupid, destabilizing, hurting, Interrupting, stimulating, irritating, jeopardising, Jeopardizing, sabotaging, provoking, Bothering, questioning, devastating, uprooting, Overturning, toppling, Overthrowing, spurring, affecting, Overcoming, Destroying, Subverting, intruding, Encountering, Endangering, challenging, undermining, Contravening, interfering, compromising, Prejudicing, shattering, disturbing, altering, Implicating, complaining, demolishing, Afflicting, Reversing, impair, Impairing, Violating, Distorting, Derailing, Infringing, Sacrificing, Curtailing, dismantling, touching, Impacting, ruining, Harassing, Amending, eroding, raping, Boosting, spoiling, smashing, Breaching, fuelling, Harming, breaking, hitting, Risking, ravaging, reflecting, Modifying, wrecking, bugging, unravelling, shifting, riding, Bridging, troubling, confusing, annoying.
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Other Related
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Adjective
disturbing, distressing, shocking, Distracting, disruptive, painful.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
heartbreaking, Disrupting.
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Antonyms for Upsetting:
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disturbing
easy, soothing, calming, convenient, happy, good, pleasing, delightful, encouraging, helpful, nice, pleasant, agreeable, settling, facile, comforting.
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disturbing