upsetting
About 1.42 uses per million words.
Meaning
- verb present participle and gerund of upset
- noun An overturning or disarrangement.
the upsettings of all their careful plans
- adjective Causing upset; distressing, unsettling, hurtful.
He found taking his cat to the vet to be put down very upsetting.
- adjective Conceited; presumptuous.
Similar words
disconcerting displeasing distressing troubling perturbed disturbing unsettling worrying frustrating annoying
Often followed by
the to of and her for a his you
Word family
upsettingly
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