Fluster vs Upset - What's the difference?
fluster | upset |
(dated) To make hot and rosy, as with drinking.
* Macaulay
(by extension) To confuse, befuddle, throw into panic by making overwrought with confusion.
To be in a heat or bustle; to be agitated and confused.
* South
(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 verbs the difference between fluster and upset
is that fluster is while upset is to make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.As an adjective upset is
(of a person) angry, distressed or unhappy.As a noun upset is
(uncountable) disturbance or disruption.fluster
English
Verb
- His habit of flustering himself daily with claret.
- He seemed to get flustered when speaking in front of too many people.
- The flustering , vainglorious Greeks.
Derived terms
* flustered (adjective) * flustering (adjective, present participle)Anagrams
* *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