upsetとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

Noun

• enPR: ŭpʹsĕt, IPA^(key): /ˈʌpsɛt/

Adjective, verb

• enPR: ŭpsĕtʹ, IPA^(key): /ʌpˈsɛt/
• 韻: -ɛt

形容詞

upset (comparative more upset, superlative most upset)

1. (of a person) Angry, distressed, or unhappy.

   He was upset when she refused his friendship.

   My children often get upset with their classmates.

2. (of a stomach または gastrointestinal tract, referred to as stomach) Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to vomit.

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

同意語

• (angry, distressed, unhappy): See angry, distressed and unhappy
  • in a tizzy

派生語

• upset price

名詞

upset (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 upsets)

1. (uncountable) Disturbance or disruption.

   My late arrival caused the professor considerable upset.

2. (countable, sports, politics) An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win.
   • 2011 January 8, Paul Fletcher, “Stevenage 3 - 1 Newcastle”, in BBC‎^[1]:

     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.

   • 2016 March 9, Harry Enten, “What The Stunning Bernie Sanders Win In Michigan Means”, in FiveThirtyEight‎^[2]:

     Sanders’s win in Michigan was one of the greatest upsets in modern political history.

3. (automobile insurance) An overturn.

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

4. An upset stomach.
   • 1958 May 12, advertisement, Life, volume 44, number 19, page 110 [3]:

     "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!"

5. (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.
6. (aviation) The dangerous situation where the flight attitude or airspeed of an aircraft is outside the designed bounds of operation, possibly resulting in loss of control.
   • 1965 June 1, Civil Aeronautics Board, “Synopsis”, in Aircraft Accident Report: Northwest Airlines, Inc., Boeing 720B, N724US, Near Miami, Florida, February 12, 1963‎^[4], retrieved 25 November 2022, page 1:

     The Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was the unfavorable interaction of severe vertical air drafts and large longitudinal control displacements resulting in a longitudinal upset from which a successful recovery was not made.

同意語

• (disturbance, disruption): disruption, disturbance
• (unexpected victory of a competitor):

派生語

• jet upset

動詞

upset (三人称単数 現在形 upsets, 現在分詞 upsetting, 過去形および過去分詞形 upset)

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

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

3. (transitive) To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).

   Introducing a foreign species can upset the ecological balance.

   The fatty meat upset his stomach.

4. (transitive) To tip or overturn (something).
   • 1924, W. D. Ross translator, Aristitle, Metaphysics, 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.

5. (transitive) To defeat unexpectedly.

   Truman upset Dewey in the 1948 US presidential election.

6. (intransitive) To be upset or knocked over.

   The carriage upset when the horse bolted.

7. (obsolete) To set up; to put upright.
   • R. of Brunne

     with sail on mast upset

8. To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end.
9. To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.

同意語

• (make someone angry, distressed または unhappy): See anger, distress, forset, and sadden
• (disturb, disrupt, adversely alter): disrupt, disturb, forset, turn upside down
• (tip, overturn): invert, overturn, forset, tip, tip over, tip up, turn over, turn upside down

派生語

• upset the applecart
• upset the natives

アナグラム

• TUPEs, Tse-p'u, puets, set up, set-up, setup, spute, stupe