Bewildered vs Upset - What's the difference?
bewildered | upset |
Baffled, confused, mystified, at a loss, or uncertain.
(bewilder)
(of a person) Angry, distressed or unhappy.
Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to vomit.
(uncountable) Disturbance or disruption.
(countable, sports) An unexpected victory of a competitor that was not favored.
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(automobile insurance) An overturn.
An stomach.
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(mathematics) An upper set; a subset (X,?) of a partially ordered set with the property that, if x is in U and x?y, then y is in U.
To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).
To tip or overturn (something).
* 1924 , W. D. Ross translator, , Book 1, Part 9,
To defeat unexpectedly.
To be upset or knocked over.
(obsolete) To set up; to put upright.
* R. of Brunne
To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end.
To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.
As adjectives the difference between bewildered and upset
is that bewildered is baffled, confused, mystified, at a loss, or uncertain while upset is angry, distressed, or unhappy.As verbs the difference between bewildered and upset
is that bewildered is past tense of bewilder while upset is to make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.As a noun upset is
disturbance or disruption.bewildered
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He was just standing there, turning this way and that, with a bewildered look on his face.
Derived terms
* bewilderedlyVerb
(head)upset
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He was upset when she refused his friendship.
- My children often get upset with their classmates.
- His stomach was upset , so he didn't want to move.
Synonyms
* See'' angry, distressed ''and unhappy ** in a tizzyDerived terms
* upset priceNoun
- My late arrival caused the professor considerable upset .
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- "collision and upset ": impact with another object or an overturn for whatever reason.
- "Bob, let's cancel the babysitter. With this upset stomach, I can't go out tonight.
- "Try Pepto-Bismol. Hospital tests prove it relieves upsets . And it's great for indigestion or nausea, too!"
Synonyms
* (sense) disruption, disturbance * (unexpected victory of a competitor)Verb
- I’m sure the bad news will upset him, but he needs to know.
- Introducing a foreign species can upset the ecological balance.
- The fatty meat upset his stomach.
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- But this argument, which first Anaxagoras and later Eudoxus and certain others used, is very easily upset ; for it is not difficult to collect many insuperable objections to such a view.
- ''Truman upset Dewey in the 1948 US presidential election.
- The carriage upset when the horse bolted.
- with sail on mast upset