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What is another word for
upsetting
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Adjective
Causing distress or discomfort
Offensive in nature
Requiring great skill or finesse in handling or treatment
Very objectionable, bad or unpleasant
Causing surprising negative emotions
Verb
To be irritating or upsetting, typically with repeated or unpleasant acts
To be triggering a passionate feeling or reaction
Present participle for to disturb mentally or emotionally
Present participle for to cause disarray or disorganization in the order of
Present participle for to knock over something
Present participle for to defeat in unexpected circumstances
Present participle for to cause disorder in
Noun
Disturbance or problems which interrupt an event, activity, or process
A cancellation or overturning of a decision or course of action
The state of being bewildered or unclear in one's mind about something
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Adjective
▲
Causing distress or discomfort
distressing
discomforting
confronting
discomposing
disquieting
distressful
disturbing
perturbing
traumatic
troublesome
troubling
trying
unsettling
bothersome
burdensome
difficult
disagreeable
discommoding
disconcerting
discouraging
dismaying
displeasing
irksome
nasty
painful
provoking
severe
toilsome
troublous
unpleasant
vexing
wearisome
worrisome
aggravating
agitating
annoying
consequential
depressing
disappointing
disruptive
foreboding
frightening
gloomy
harassing
hard
harrowing
hurtful
impeding
inconvenient
intrusive
irritating
laborious
nagging
ominous
onerous
perplexing
shocking
sinister
startling
threatening
tiresome
worrying
alarming
numbing
anxiety provoking
sad
dreadful
heartbreaking
dire
awful
unnerving
tragic
heartrending
agonizing
US
grim
grievous
terrible
agonising
UK
appalling
vexatious
lamentable
daunting
bitter
horrible
saddening
dismal
heart-rending
disheartening
unfortunate
woeful
regrettable
pitiful
galling
bad
nerve-racking
wretched
stressful
ghastly
gut-wrenching
poignant
horrifying
awkward
miserable
deplorable
horrid
horrific
hairy
distasteful
unwelcome
harsh
tormenting
dispiriting
sombre
UK
somber
US
excruciating
objectionable
pathetic
forbidding
taxing
concerning
cheerless
unpalatable
horrendous
hopeless
grave
frightful
bleak
melancholy
moving
macabre
affecting
exasperating
terrifying
offensive
doleful
tear-jerking
demoralizing
US
dreary
off-putting
unhappy
piteous
vile
fraught
frustrating
unlucky
tragical
tough
demoralising
UK
afflicting
sorrowful
pitiable
sorry
mournful
nerve-wracking
unpleasing
rotten
joyless
atrocious
pesky
scary
creepy
nightmarish
touching
sickening
foul
wicked
ugly
hideous
maddening
uncomfortable
gruesome
tricky
repugnant
plaguy
unfavourable
UK
pestilent
monstrous
oppressive
unfavorable
US
repellent
uncongenial
tense
nettlesome
intimidating
lurid
grisly
abominable
problematic
torturous
loathsome
pestiferous
nail-biting
cruel
unsavory
US
chilling
pestilential
infuriating
unsavoury
UK
thorny
obnoxious
rankling
disgusting
dangerous
solemn
drear
riling
afflictive
abrasive
heavy
direful
unspeakable
peeving
nauseating
niggling
dejecting
anxious
chafing
carking
nettling
undesirable
crushing
uneasy
embarrassing
nervous
formidable
discomfiting
icky
glum
restless
plaintive
melancholic
repulsive
rebarbative
pesty
plaguey
fearful
morose
dark
depressive
challenging
sticky
stirring
godawful
mortifying
harrying
morbid
emotional
desolate
jarring
hateful
comfortless
sour
inauspicious
unacceptable
poor
exacting
revolting
parlous
hellacious
pessimistic
prickly
funereal
intolerable
mean
rueful
black
perilous
precarious
anxious-making
rough
yucky
nauseous
heart-wrenching
abhorrent
demanding
yukky
flustering
stunning
unpropitious
unlovely
detestable
unpopular
tearful
devastating
arduous
drab
petrifying
lousy
menacing
scaring
impactful
sober
impressive
brutal
ignominious
hostile
disenchanting
lachrymose
disgraceful
undesired
odious
teasing
infernal
calamitous
grating
enraging
humourless
UK
humorless
US
confounded
outrageous
unwanted
austere
cussed
unamusing
bewildering
fearsome
terrific
wearing
abysmal
serious
nightmare
abject
grewsome
redoubtable
heart-breaking
shameful
repellant
teary
exigent
emotive
unfriendly
dolorous
very bad
hair-raising
spine-chilling
tedious
delicate
knotty
disastrous
unattractive
execrable
tight
injurious
tender
antagonizing
US
intense
forlorn
unkind
stupefying
astonishing
surprising
amazing
harmful
uninviting
egregious
sullen
hellish
affective
testing
astounding
antagonising
UK
staggering
overwhelming
gross
heart-warming
messy
pressing
discommodious
grotesque
unsightly
damaging
enough to try the patience of a saint
enough to drive you up the wall
troubled
sentimental
extreme
scarring
haunting
dampening
disconsolate
desolating
scandalous
mirthless
dispirited
dolesome
reprehensible
weighty
boring
distracting
cold
festering
distressed
unbearable
incommodious
expressive
hazardous
critical
sedate
unsatisfying
blameworthy
bedevilling
UK
obscene
lugubrious
murderous
stiff
hardhanded
inhuman
rugged
searing
problematical
ticklish
chancy
dodgy
iffy
punishing
telling
savage
heartstopping
heart-melting
dread
rancid
evil
noisome
fulsome
noxious
soul-stirring
dubious
spartan
suspect
questionable
punchable
bloodcurdling
tremendous
ill-advised
too bad
unrelenting
glaring
heinous
unpardonable
unforgivable
exceptionable
beastly
bedeviling
US
dramatic
unwished-for
from hell
straitened
dour
ill-fated
hard-pressed
sobering
inhospitable
shadowy
tortured
full of hardship
doubtful
strained
adverse
causing fear
ill-omened
treacherous
negative
life-threatening
jeopardous
apocalyptic
rocky
gnawing
prophetic
uncertain
irking
gory
disillusioning
wounding
puzzling
sorrowing
destabilising
UK
destabilizing
US
panicky
mind-blowing
embittering
depressed
invasive
unappetizing
shattering
antipathetic
nostalgic
godforsaken
squalid
confusing
barro
blue
evocative
unforgiving
crummy
derisible
dingy
plangent
pensive
warming
sordid
acute
offending
passionate
dissatisfying
catastrophic
impossible
unsatisfactory
stinking
diabolical
unendurable
bothering
powerful
untoward
baffling
repressing
wistful
uncool
grotty
grody
unappealing
dirty
eerie
despairing
tearing
inferior
sensitive
controversial
irritable
anguished
fierce
ruthless
fatiguing
brackish
rejected
uplifting
anticlimactic
hefty
indigent
scurvy
scungy
impoverished
sepulchral
weak
heartsickening
desperate
relentless
merciless
ferocious
flat
spooky
uphill
mephitical
revulsive
humiliating
inexcusable
heartwarming
terribly bad
excluded
sore
remorseless
great
not hopeful
not encouraging
strong
meagre
UK
hurting
meager
US
extremely upsetting
eldritch
baleful
intemperate
rigorous
inclement
extremely bad
god-awful
ill-favoured
UK
inadmissible
blood-curdling
spine-tingling
pressured
shaming
anxiety-inducing
degrading
emotionally moving
tiring
gruelling
UK
exhausting
unwished for
arousing affect
infestive
repressive
hard-hearted
strenuous
not wanted
ill-favored
US
grueling
US
demeaning
gray
US
ill-boding
grey
UK
jolting
discreditable
yucko
uncalled-for
flabbergasting
dislikable
dumbfounding
inspiring
extraordinary
drag
pain
accursed
blindsiding
compromising
a stinker of a
exciting
arousing
unexpected
emotionally exhausting
emotionally depleting
dumfounding
discountenancing
remarkable
impelling
unforeseen
dishonoring
US
dishonouring
UK
sudden
gripping
breathless
meaningful
striking
significant
rousing
sententious
thrilling
inopportune
rattling
unseemly
blush-making
toe-curling
eye-opening
jaw-dropping
emotionally draining
insufferable
vicious
sharp
violent
racking
heartbroken
piercing
insupportable
exquisite
suffering
grieving
tortuous
grief-stricken
vehement
forceful
stinging
torturing
afflicted
oppressed
stark
biting
too much
wrenching
dejected
a bit much
raging
agonized
US
beyond bearing
despondent
downcast
not to be borne
downhearted
wailing
down
crestfallen
woebegone
bewailing
penetrating
bemoaning
deploring
heartsick
weeping
ruinous
funeral
ungovernable
unsupportable
heartsore
overpowering
unmanageable
aching
destructive
mighty
brokenhearted
furious
regretful
pitiless
consuming
almighty
explosive
resounding
blistering
dolent
vigorous
forcible
too much to bear
heavy-hearted
potent
ruthful
excessive
broken-hearted
dynamic
beyond endurance
agonised
UK
down in the mouth
intensive
down in the dumps
shooting
enough to try the patience of Job
killing
stabbing
deadly
wild
peracute
mortal
low
lethal
hangdog
inconsolable
saddened
heavyhearted
droopy
inordinate
profound
uncontrollable
low-spirited
fiery
rampaging
rabid
uncontrolled
rampant
riotous
unrestrained
weepy
storming
unchecked
deep
unfettered
uncurbed
inflamed
unbridled
keen
emphatic
tormented
immoderate
hot
urgent
energetic
concentrated
peppery
convulsive
flaming
enraged
blustery
cast down
poverty-stricken
paroxysmal
turbulent
volcanic
frenzied
coercive
stormy
tumultuous
aroused
tempestuous
smart
in pain
past bearing
heavy-duty
last straw
scabrous
gale force
out of control
full of force
stringent
sucky
crippling
punitive
Spartan
blinding
uncoveted
unsustainable
charged
smarting
knifelike
feel-bad
tickly
crashing
invidious
bumpy
burning
cutting
unreasonable
commiserative
downbeat
itchy
scratchy
pounding
unsparing
no-win
intractable
recalcitrant
devastated
considerable
pain-filled
dirgeful
stern
inexorable
causing discomfort
ill-fitting
aggressive
anguishing
perverse
wayward
long-faced
major
in a blue funk
out of sorts
down and out
bummed out
fed up
let-down
not happy
in the dumps
wounded
unenviable
improper
harrowed
beyond the pale
embarrassed
cringeworthy
racked with suffering
cut up
racked with pain
angst-ridden
bowed down
enough to tax the patience of a saint
enough to test the patience of a saint
dicey
untimely
big
grinding
cringey
gnarly
struggling
in sorrow
in mourning
agonious
pained
agonous
enough already
full of sorrow
singing the blues
touchy
sick at heart
cringe-making
catchy
tricksy
spiny
fatal
thunderous
cyclonic
operose
all-powerful
death-dealing
touch-and-go
unsurpassable
enough
unsufferable
heavy-handed
more than flesh and blood can stand
more than one can stand
more than one can bear
more ❯
“Martin has just gone through a painful and
upsetting
divorce.”
Adjective
▲
Offensive in nature
offensive
disrespectful
objectionable
derogatory
discourteous
affronting
distasteful
exceptionable
hurtful
impertinent
impudent
insolent
provocative
abhorrent
contemptible
degrading
deplorable
disagreeable
disgusting
displeasing
insufferable
insulting
obnoxious
provoking
reprehensible
repugnant
rude
slighting
unacceptable
undesirable
unpleasant
unwelcome
wounding
censurable
impolite
inappropriate
insupportable
intolerable
uncivil
unmannerly
vexing
beyond the pale
out of line
out of order
spiteful
malicious
mean
unkind
nasty
cruel
snide
cutting
biting
vicious
catty
acerbic
barbed
insensitive
snarky
mordacious
sarky
acidulous
tactless
distressing
abusive
disparaging
scurrilous
contemptuous
vulgar
scandalous
dirty
hostile
low
coarse
hateful
annoying
detestable
inconsiderate
indecent
vindictive
personal
despiteful
crude
irritating
outrageous
humiliating
exasperating
mischievous
galling
shocking
painful
improper
prejudicial
unwanted
disgustful
unsatisfactory
loathly
unbearable
denigratory
belittling
contumelious
pejorative
uncomplimentary
derisive
disdainful
scornful
deprecatory
vituperative
depreciatory
derisory
demeaning
depreciative
derogative
denigrative
defamatory
opprobrious
sarcastic
decrying
detractive
vilifying
reproachful
scathing
libellous
UK
libelous
US
mocking
jeering
critical
reviling
negative
obloquious
foul
deprecating
vituperatory
violent
berating
calumniating
censorious
slanderous
blasphemous
sneering
discrediting
politically incorrect
supercilious
disapproving
maligning
cheeky
withering
calumniatory
damaging
ironical
familiar
intrusive
unfriendly
bitter
sharp
scolding
abrupt
curt
brusque
gruff
short
surly
blunt
ungracious
ridiculing
prejudiced
invective
bad-mannered
ill-mannered
unaware
mortifying
depreciating
castigating
repulsive
harsh
offhand
un-PC
scurril
vitriolic
upbraiding
truculent
scurrile
reproving
castigatory
sharp-tongued
unsympathetic
patronizing
US
rejecting
patronising
UK
contemning
despising
repudiating
arrogant
haughty
snobbish
condescending
imperious
proud
uppity
snooty
cavalier
sniffy
vain
snotty
scoffing
audacious
cool
snippy
bold
taunting
sardonic
hard
temperamental
hard-nosed
on your high horse
high and mighty
full of contempt
cold-shoulder
unfavourable
UK
detracting
traducing
unflattering
unfavorable
US
minimising
UK
diminishing
deflating
dishonouring
UK
discreditable
dishonoring
US
aspersing
malevolent
minimizing
US
fault-finding
more ❯
“Sally still hasn't forgiven you for that
upsetting
comment you made about her derriere.”
Adjective
▲
Requiring great skill or finesse in handling or treatment
ticklish
difficult
tricky
delicate
thorny
problematic
sensitive
knotty
sticky
prickly
tough
awkward
problematical
touchy
hairy
dodgy
troublesome
complicated
nasty
controversial
catchy
tricksy
complex
spiny
hard
intricate
involved
trying
taxing
vexatious
irksome
precarious
convoluted
worrying
bothersome
critical
risky
uncertain
dangerous
volatile
vexed
concerning
unstable
nice
chancy
rocky
unsteady
capricious
changeable
fickle
inconstant
mercurial
temperamental
variable
dicey
iffy
perplexing
unpleasant
baffling
nettlesome
formidable
harassing
severe
uncomfortable
embarrassing
puzzling
emotive
unpredictable
paradoxical
contentious
humiliating
uneasy
compromising
painful
cringey
cringeworthy
fiddly
cringe-making
loaded
gnarly
intractable
mystifying
tender
provocative
heated
divisive
scandalous
wicked
rough
catch-22
like herding cats
sophisticated
profound
strenuous
heavy
annoying
rugged
hair-trigger
laborious
kid-glove
operose
discomforting
subtle
touch-and-go
disconcerting
flustering
discomfiting
penetrating
searching
demeaning
distressing
degrading
embarrassed
inconvenient
untimely
discountenancing
discomposing
disturbing
excruciating
incommodious
exasperating
shameful
toe-curling
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Very objectionable, bad or unpleasant
ghastly
horrible
dreadful
awful
hideous
terrible
appalling
disgusting
horrid
horrendous
revolting
nasty
gruesome
shocking
repulsive
foul
loathsome
repellent
sickening
vile
offensive
unpleasant
repugnant
odious
distasteful
grisly
horrific
obnoxious
nauseating
abhorrent
disagreeable
monstrous
atrocious
nauseous
objectionable
obscene
beastly
detestable
hateful
noxious
displeasing
unpalatable
deplorable
nightmarish
despicable
contemptible
unsavory
US
unsavoury
UK
disgustful
loathly
reprehensible
insufferable
unacceptable
grewsome
terrific
nightmare
intolerable
godawful
undesirable
rebarbative
exceptionable
unbearable
weak
off-putting
sick-making
beyond the pale
from hell
horrifying
macabre
lurid
gross
grim
abominable
yucky
repellant
noisome
scandalous
rancid
ugly
fulsome
evil
putrid
vomitous
yucko
bogging
emetic
God-awful
stomach-turning
stomach-churning
gut-churning
vomit-inducing
frightful
terrorizing
US
fearful
disquieting
terrorising
UK
agitating
harrowing
unspeakable
disturbing
heinous
dreaded
hellacious
sickly
brackish
rocky
woozy
icky
execrable
rotten
skanky
lousy
stinking
grotty
uninviting
rank
sick
malodorous
fetid
US
mephitic
bad
smelly
unwelcome
foetid
UK
invidious
diabolical
dire
on the nose
niffy
olid
annoying
festy
unpleasing
scurvy
evil-smelling
foul-smelling
pongy
stinky
whiffy
funky
miasmal
irritating
hellish
mean
acrid
dirty
filthy
grubby
unappetizing
sordid
harsh
bitter
miserable
distressing
unsightly
outrageous
damnable
grody
unattractive
squalid
terrifying
murderous
poisonous
sorry
grotesque
creepy
yukky
wicked
pestiferous
unlovely
uncongenial
bloody
poison
pesky
sleazy
cringe-making
very unpleasant
infernal
pitiful
spine-chilling
wretched
pestilential
base
polluted
savage
sour
dislikeable
pitiable
unclean
uncleanly
soiled
opprobrious
paltry
brutal
bum
ungodly
unholy
bloodthirsty
grimy
ornery
dislikable
calamitous
violent
disastrous
fugly
disfigured
deformed
poor
gory
lamentable
bloodletting
woeful
blasted
fiendish
blood-and-guts
direful
grievous
very bad
reeking
infuriating
exasperating
censurable
as ugly as sin
unseemly
inadmissible
forbidding
repelling
disconcerting
discouraging
off-colour
UK
indecorous
uncool
cruddy
hateable
smudged
bedraggled
stained
mucky
besmirched
befouled
smutty
blackened
sullied
cheap
scummy
bemired
dusty
lame
black
dingy
draggled
sneaking
grungy
ratty
scabby
muddy
begrimed
off-color
US
yecchy
unsatisfactory
unsuitable
ill-favoured
UK
ill-favored
US
morbid
fearsome
pathetic
dismal
bestial
eerie
sanguine
troublesome
unendurable
irksome
shameful
disgraceful
abject
shabby
piteous
sanguinary
bilious
maddening
egregious
illegal
overpowering
vexatious
uncomfortable
flagrant
embarrassing
offending
biting
cutting
scabrous
unforgivable
blood-stained
slimy
excruciating
suffocating
hairy
fierce
hated
reviled
unwholesome
confounded
unfit
rude
unwanted
tasteless
galling
dismaying
cursed
reeky
baneful
hurtful
deleterious
harmful
unhealthy
injurious
deuced
shuddersome
infamous
danged
strong
high
musty
stenchy
fusty
pill
heel
very disgusting
doggone
squicky
cloying
surfeiting
scuzzy
freaking
inexpedient
goddamned
frowzy
frowsy
miasmic
frowsty
cussed
adverse
pigpen
ripe
darn
blood-and-thunder
unlikable
unappealing
doggoned
gnarly
dang
bothersome
not okay
durn
tragic
darned
for the birds
eye-watering
to be avoided
strictly for the birds
out of place
catastrophic
cataclysmic
ruinous
durned
devastating
curst
unfortunate
blimming
stressful
difficult
trying
hard
testing
tough
heavy
demanding
fraught
frustrating
pressured
taxing
traumatic
arduous
tiring
gruelling
UK
accursed
cotton-picking
dark
grueling
US
a stinker of a
a bummer of a
unhappy
desolate
doleful
unpropitious
forlorn
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Causing surprising negative emotions
amazing
bizarre
curious
peculiar
weird
eerie
fanciful
far-fetched
quaint
uncanny
baffling
befuddling
disconcerting
freakish
freaky
incomprehensible
inconceivable
mystifying
outlandish
preposterous
puzzling
queer
spooky
strange
unlikely
unusual
confounding
confusing
conspicuous
dumfounding
flustering
out of the ordinary
overwhelming
portentous
unexpected
unforeseen
unimaginable
unthinkable
whimsical
discomfiting
dismaying
jarring
jolting
nonplusing
nonplussing
unannounced
unanticipated
unwonted
muddling
shattering
uncommon
unordinary
Verb
▲
To be irritating or upsetting, typically with repeated or unpleasant acts
annoying
harassing
aggravating
antagonizing
US
bugging
exasperating
galling
getting
goading
irking
irritating
narking
nettling
peeving
pestering
riling
ruffling
vexing
frustrating
nagging
angering
bothering
displeasing
disturbing
hassling
incensing
infuriating
maddening
making angry
needling
provoking
teasing
agitating
getting to
incommoding
making cross
molesting
perturbing
troubling
worrying
badgering
bedeviling
US
bedevilling
UK
breaking
chafing
distressing
enraging
frosting
gnawing
grating
harrying
henpecking
nudging
persecuting
piquing
plaguing
riding
rubbing up the wrong way
spiting
beleaguering
burning up
driving crazy
driving to distraction
graveling
gravelling
rankling
antagonising
UK
bumming out
driving mad
eating
getting at
getting someone's goat
getting under your skin
getting up your nose
giving someone grief
giving someone the hump
hacking off
making your blood boil
teeing off
ticking off
winding up
cheesing off
driving round the bend
driving round the twist
driving up the wall
egging on
firing up
getting in your hair
getting on your wick
getting someone's dander up
getting your back up
hacking you off
heating up
making someone see red
making waves
turning off
working on
asking for it
getting on your nerves
giving someone the pip
putting your back up
hitting where one lives
inflaming
putting out
miffing
driving nuts
getting across
getting on someone's nerves
getting someone's wick
ruffling someone's feathers
getting in someone's hair
rattling someone's cage
trying someone's patience
getting on someone's tits
getting someone's hackles up
getting under someone's skin
making someone's hackles rise
getting someone's back up
offending
rasping
tormenting
outraging
affronting
hounding
fretting
griping
giving a hard time
exacerbating
humping
roiling
itching
baiting
getting your goat
disgruntling
rattling
dogging
hurting
picking on
rubbing the wrong way
getting on one's nerves
heckling
bullying
making somebody's hackles rise
taunting
disgusting
discomposing
insulting
paining
ruffling one's feathers
grating on
disquieting
wounding
rankling with
getting up someone's nose
fazing
iring
raising your hackles
getting your dander up
trying your patience
hectoring
flustering
stinging
perplexing
discomfiting
mortifying
enflaming
madding
depressing
trying
pecking at
steaming up
eating at
unsettling
dismaying
chivvying
afflicting
disconcerting
ailing
aggrieving
torturing
fussing
hazing
niggling
dissing
getting someone
abrading
driving bananas
sending into a rage
stirring up
putting someone's nose out of joint
grieving
besetting
unnerving
flurrying
pricking
distempering
discombobulating
jarring on
discountenancing
browbeating
mithering
disobliging
burning
getting your hackles up
gnawing at
picking at
rubbing you up the wrong way
working up
driving you up the wall
cutting to the quick
alarming
concerning
slighting
saddening
agonizing
US
discomforting
abusing
distracting
devilling
deviling
unhinging
victimizing
US
frazzling
shocking
ragging
criticizing
US
alaruming
oppressing
exciting
importuning
throwing
derailing
getting across someone
discommoding
prodding
hagriding
chivying
dissatisfying
rousing
exercising
empurpling
undoing
embittering
injuring
embarrassing
chagrining
crossing
hacking
tantalizing
US
hurting somebody's feelings
having a down on
going on at
grumbling at
weirding out
tantalising
UK
harping on at
breathing down someone's neck
freaking out
bending someone's ear
keeping after
criticising
UK
agonising
UK
wearing on
victimising
UK
having it in for
keeping on at
causing offense
discriminating against
ridiculing
confusing
mistreating
stressing
maltreating
terrorizing
US
confounding
gibing
ribbing
besieging
cursing
scolding
inconveniencing
scaring
berating
anguishing
straining
pursuing
scandalizing
US
intimidating
disrespecting
horrifying
chaffing
repelling
interrupting
jarring
inciting
nauseating
sickening
boring
bumming
disrupting
chiding
testing
grilling
umbraging
biting
stirring
browning off
finding fault
rattling one's cage
jangling
sticking in one's craw
finding fault with
terrorising
UK
trying the patience of
keeping complaining to
setting one's teeth on edge
making unhappy
acerbating
carping at
scandalising
UK
getting a rise out of
throwing off balance
zinging
making you see red
moaning at
making things hot for someone
putting down
pushing around
punishing unfairly
ill-treating
trolling
shaking up
leaning on
eating away at
making anxious
giving offence to
raising hell
guying
wigging
getting on someone
taxing
cutting
riling up
driving insane
souring
mocking
bristling
steaming
making an enemy of somebody
getting on the wrong side of
messing with
messing
pushing someon's buttons
pushing one's buttons
arousing hostility in
despairing
burdening
rattling someone's chain
taking a rise out of
starting
setting on
setting off
working into lather
putting on edge
hitting a sour note
getting on
setting on edge
boiling
making sore
crazing
blowing up
arousing
losing one's temper
tiring
frightening
pressing
racking
hanging up
getting even
upsetting the applecart
harming
giving the business
insisting on
slapping
weighing down
making trouble
stirring the pot
making you angry
whipping up
jeering
devastating
causing anxiety to
lying heavy on
tearing
sweating out
dunning
putting
tiffing
huffing
stewing
petting
tyrannizing
US
disappointing
discontenting
disaffecting
slandering
getting in the hair of
dumping on
razzing
giving the cold shoulder
taking the mickey
getting on the nerves of
taking the piss out of
making fun of
tyrannising
UK
confronting
dispraising
singling out
giving a zinger
festering
harrowing
shaking
pushing
strapping
making miserable
desolating
causing suffering to
martyring
doing a number on
weighing on
arousing anxiety in
pushing buttons
causing anguish to
making wretched
making it tough for
indisposing
nit-picking
cutting up
snubbing
repulsing
excruciating
revolting
obsessing
making someone fed up
disheartening
wearying
making discontented
becoming bored
grating at
having had enough
losing patience
eating up
causing annoyance to
causing resentment to
playing dirty
slurring
mispleasing
giving offence
humiliating
treading on someone's toes
curdling
scratching around
searching high heaven
ragging on
yapping at
booing
keying up
lashing at
turning on
immolating
demonizing
US
using
beating
running up the wrong way
mourning
pushing the buttons of
thumbing nose at
causing suffering
causing anguish
bleeding
causing sorrow
lambasting
nagging at
hissing
upbraiding
stacking the deck
demonising
UK
having your knife into
urging
egging
busting chops
moaning on at
busting someone's balls
taking it out on
carping
punishing
playing cat and mouse
putting through wringer
rubbing salt in wound
giving a bad time
mixing up
domineering
barracking
jibing at
shouting down
shouting at
shouting catcalls at
making game of
impeding
hindering
caviling
US
cavilling
UK
intruding upon
imposing on
bewildering
flummoxing
flooring
fuddling
cowing
affecting
putting into a flap
putting someone off their stroke
wearing
stumping
making nervous
throwing into tizzy
causing someone to lose their composure
putting off
throwing into a tizz
muddling
pothering
disordering
disarranging
making uneasy
making fretful
making a scene
showing ill will towards
pushing about
more ❯
Verb
▲
To be triggering a passionate feeling or reaction
exciting
provoking
inciting
riling
stirring up
fomenting
impassioning
inflaming
rallying
roiling
rousing
stirring
triggering
aggravating
agitating
animating
electrifying
firing up
goading
inspiring
instigating
arousing
enthusing
galvanizing
US
incensing
irking
priming
ruffling
stimulating
whipping up
baiting
charging
egging on
eliciting
encouraging
enlivening
grilling
kindling
piquing
pumping up
revving up
setting off
vexing
vivifying
winding up
working up
activating
angering
awakening
bringing about
bringing out
causing
charging up
commoving
energising
UK
energizing
US
enkindling
galvanising
UK
jolting
motivating
needling
pepping up
sparking off
touching off
triggering off
working into lather
chafing
discomposing
flustering
inducing
infuriating
intensifying
maddening
offending
shaking
shaking up
starting
taunting
waking up
feeding the fire
Verb
▲
Present participle for to disturb mentally or emotionally
distressing
disturbing
bothering
dismaying
troubling
agitating
disquieting
perturbing
worrying
alarming
discomposing
disconcerting
unsettling
flustering
ruffling
unnerving
grieving
discountenancing
displeasing
hassling
angering
frightening
hurting
inconveniencing
offending
shaking
throwing
annoying
bugging
discomforting
fretting
harassing
irking
irritating
pestering
plaguing
tormenting
vexing
ailing
disappointing
peeving
rattling
afflicting
concerning
derailing
discombobulating
fazing
frazzling
fussing
indisposing
miffing
narking
spooking
unhinging
wounding
alaruming
bewildering
confounding
cramping
crazing
debilitating
distempering
distracting
flipping
flooring
flurrying
hagriding
incapacitating
pothering
saddening
sickening
turning
undoing
egging on
firing up
flipping out
freaking out
getting at
getting to
picking on
stirring up
ticking off
winding up
bumming out
getting across
getting someone
hacking off
keying up
laying up
making waves
turning on
weirding out
giving someone grief
making a scene
rocking the boat
throwing off balance
giving a hard time
hurting somebody's feelings
getting on your wick
“She was highly sensitive, and we were constantly walking on eggshells trying not to
upset
her.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to cause disarray or disorganization in the order of
disordering
disturbing
overturning
confusing
disorganizing
unsettling
changing
deranging
disarranging
disarraying
discomposing
disheveling
dishevelling
disjointing
dislocating
disrupting
jumbling
muddling
unbalancing
hashing
rummaging
scrambling
shuffling
spoiling
tousling
messing up
mussing
reordering
reversing
rumpling
slopping
sloshing
subverting
tilting
turning
mixing up
throwing into disorder
turning inside-out
putting out of order
“The ship trembled slightly, enough to make one lose their balance, but not enough to
upset
anything.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to knock over something
toppling
upending
capsizing
tipping
tumbling
upturning
inverting
oversetting
pitching
spilling
knocking over
pushing over
tipping over
toppling over
turning topsy-turvy
keeling over
turning upside down
“Willie sprang on the top of the table and
upset
the bottle of ink upon Martha's manuscript.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to defeat in unexpected circumstances
conquering
defeating
overcoming
overthrowing
beating
toppling
routing
trouncing
vanquishing
outplaying
thrashing
capsizing
overpowering
overturning
owning
triumphing over
turning over
winning
worsting
getting the better of
“A rank outsider would
upset
the reigning champion.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to cause disorder in
disrupting
disturbing
confusing
disarranging
disordering
disorganizing
unsettling
jumbling
ruining
wrecking
interfering with
messing up
mixing up
throwing into chaos
throwing into confusion
throwing into disorder
throwing out
turning topsy-turvy
“Many activists and researchers claim that constant human intervention will
upset
the balance of nature.”
Noun
▲
Disturbance or problems which interrupt an event, activity, or process
disruption
disturbance
upset
disarray
confusion
disorganisation
UK
disorganization
US
disorder
derangement
interruption
break
division
interference
dislocation
disarrangement
disarranging
disordering
disorderliness
turmoil
confusing
stoppage
unsettling
discontinuation
hampering
impeding
obstruction
ruining
spoiling
suspension
wrecking
agitation
delay
delaying
retardation
undermining
commotion
distraction
separation
severance
splitting
trouble
destabilisation
UK
destabilization
US
holding up
weakening
displacement
disengagement
luxation
disconnection
discontinuity
misplacement
unhinging
disarticulation
subversion
relocation
movement
move
shift
breaking
intrusion
reordering
reshuffle
violation
rearrangement
compromise
putting out of joint
erosion
limitation
curb
check
infringement
more ❯
Noun
▲
A cancellation or overturning of a decision or course of action
reversal
overturning
undoing
overruling
repeal
abrogation
alteration
changing
countermanding
quashing
rescinding
revocation
veto
cancelation
US
change
disallowing
overriding
overthrow
repudiation
rollback
vetoing
annulment
cancellation
UK
invalidation
negation
nullification
rescindment
retraction
setting aside
voiding
withdrawal
disannulment
recall
recanting
rescission
abolition
dissolution
avoidance
defeasance
abandonment
abolishment
abatement
termination
abortion
calling
recision
dropping
calling off
elimination
vitiation
ending
deletion
discontinuation
removal
stopping
disaffirmation
voidance
obliteration
canceling
US
retracting
annihilation
revoking
abolishing
cancelling
UK
abandoning
erasing
discharge
breakup
turnabout
backpedaling
US
turnaround
doubleback
switch
scrapping
backpedalling
UK
suspension
axing
ditching
U-turn
volte-face
chopping
dumping
change in direction
erasure
expunction
denial
contradiction
refutation
rebuttal
disclaiming
disproval
refuting
end
eradication
destruction
extermination
suppression
extirpation
subversion
extinction
effacement
scrubbing
junking
excising
annulling
closure
wiping out
stamping out
doing away with
blotting out
closing down
more ❯
Noun
▲
The state of being bewildered or unclear in one's mind about something
confusion
bewilderment
puzzlement
perplexity
bafflement
mystification
dither
wonder
befuddlement
disorientation
wonderment
befuddling
discombobulation
discomfiture
distraction
doubt
fluster
muddle
uncertainty
bamboozlement
discomposure
disconcertion
perplexing
stupefaction
agitation
astonishment
bemusement
bewilderedness
chagrin
confounding
confusedness
daze
discomfiting
perturbation
shock
tangle
abashment
awkwardness
demoralisation
UK
demoralization
US
disconcertment
dumbfounding
embarrassment
flap
fog
lather
mixup
stew
unsettling
whirl
addling
blurring
cluttering
difficulty
maze
misperception
misunderstanding
obscuring
pother
surprise
tangling
turbulence
head-scratching
stirring up
stupor
distress
disquiet
consternation
haze
amazement
nervousness
uneasiness
mortification
trance
anxiety
unease
disturbance
worry
incomprehension
awe
trepidation
alarm
dismay
muddledness
startlement
upset
disbelief
incredulity
disquietude
hysteria
flusteredness
discomfort
fear
narcosis
nadaville
lala-land
apprehension
shame
apprehensiveness
concern
spin
dazedness
swoon
gauze
glaze
inquietude
surprize
obfuscation
disorder
vexation
egg on one's face
derangement
panic
frenzy
tizzy
humiliation
suspicion
malaise
questioning
nonplus
trouble
speechlessness
doubtfulness
deliriousness
anxiousness
blankness
sweat
concernment
muddlement
numbness
nervosity
solicitude
agita
fogginess
defeat
turmoil
insanity
madness
mania
disappointment
harassment
excitement
delirium
unrest
astoundment
fright
state of shock
affront
mental fogginess
disruption
disarray
skepticism
US
dumbfoundedness
edginess
confoundment
quandary
cluelessness
giddiness
dwaal
scepticism
UK
not understanding
lack of comprehension
comedown
qualms
misgiving
self-consciousness
being confused
being bewildered
frustration
dwam
undoing
dubiety
upheaval
care
blindness
vagueness
obscurity
jumble
tension
emotion
state of stupefaction
disillusion
marvel
curiosity
confused state
nervous excitement
state of confusion
state of bewilderment
state of disorientation
trancelike state
bother
obliviousness
perplexion
feverishness
fever
mental unclarity
disorientedness
perplexedness
crazedness
discord
abstraction
disgrace
ignominy
admiration
dishonour
UK
dishonor
US
indignity
annoyance
irritation
anger
inconvenience
lack of understanding
abasement
degradation
grief
hurt
grievance
torment
hassle
shake-up
humbling
horror
terror
stunner
commotion
queasiness
turn-up
dislocation
mental distress
dumbfoundment
condescension
dread
resignation
something else
dementia
dementedness
one for the books
flabbergastment
astoundedness
flabbergast
blow
loss of face
irrationality
state
scare
alarum
funk
fearfulness
put down
trauma
bring down
tizz
swivet
bombshell
devastation
cold sweat
jam
fight-or-flight reaction
crush
cold feet
rush
hallucination
lunacy
incoherence
calenture
revelation
whammy
temporary insanity
temporary madness
injury
thunderbolt
earthquake
encounter
rude awakening
eye-opener
state of agitation
double whammy
bolt from the blue
state of perturbation
source of consternation
kick in the teeth
source of distress
a bolt out of the blue
source of amazement
a bolt from the blue
more ❯
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