Upset vs Upside - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between upset and upside

is that upset is disturbance or disruption while upside is the highest or uppermost side or portion of something.

As an adjective upset

is angry, distressed, or unhappy.

As a verb upset

is to make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.

As a preposition upside is

on the top of.

upset

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

(of a person) Angry, distressed or unhappy.

He was upset when she refused his friendship.

My children often get upset with their classmates.

Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to vomit.

His stomach was upset , so he didn't want to move.

Synonyms

* See'' angry, distressed ''and unhappy ** in a tizzy

Derived terms

* upset price

Noun

(uncountable) Disturbance or disruption.

My late arrival caused the professor considerable upset .

(countable, sports) An unexpected victory of a competitor that was not favored.

* {{quote-news

, year=2011 , date=January 8 , author=Paul Fletcher , title=Stevenage 3 - 1 Newcastle , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=But it is probably the biggest upset for the away side since Ronnie Radford smashed a famous goal as Hereford defeated Newcastle 2-1 in 1972.}}

(automobile insurance) An overturn.

"collision and upset ": impact with another object or an overturn for whatever reason.

An stomach.

* 1958 May 12, advertisement, Life , volume 44, number 19, page 110 [http://books.google.com/books?id=vFMEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA110&dq=pepto]:

"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!"

(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.

Synonyms

* (sense) disruption, disturbance * (unexpected victory of a competitor)

Verb

To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.

I’m sure the bad news will upset him, but he needs to know.

To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).

Introducing a foreign species can upset the ecological balance.

The fatty meat upset his stomach.

To tip or overturn (something).

* 1924 , W. D. Ross translator, , Book 1, Part 9, The Classical Library, Nashotah, Wisconsin, 2001.

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.

To defeat unexpectedly.

''Truman upset Dewey in the 1948 US presidential election.

To be upset or knocked over.

The carriage upset when the horse bolted.

(obsolete) To set up; to put upright.

* R. of Brunne

with sail on mast upset

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.

Synonyms

* (make (a person) angry, distressed or unhappy''): ''See'' anger, distress ''and sadden * disrupt, disturb, turn upside down * (sense) invert, overturn, tip, tip over, tip up, turn over, turn upside down

Derived terms

* upset the applecart * upset the natives

Anagrams

* * English heteronyms English irregular past participles English irregular simple past forms English irregular verbs

upside

English

(wikipedia upside)

Noun

(en noun)

the highest or uppermost side or portion of something

a favourable aspect of something that also has an unfavourable aspect

an upward tendency, especially in a financial market etc

Alternative forms

* up-side

Antonyms

* downside

Derived terms

* upside down

Preposition

(English prepositions)

(informal) On the top of.

* 2002 , Pamela Duncan, Moon Women

Ruth Ann clenched her hand around the hairbrush and felt like smacking Ashley upside the head with it. She knew better than to talk that way.