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Definition of upsetting : Conceited; assuming; as, an upsetting fellow.

Synonyms:

happy, distressful, disconcerting, pain, worrisome, troublous, distressing, unsettling, intrusive, disruptive, displeasing

displacing, cluttering, dislocating, fermenting, disordering, tampering, scattering, capsizing, tumbling, swirling, disorganizing, whipping, tossing, rummaging, mislaying, confounding, rippling, tousling, whisking, blurring, convulsing, misplacing, hashing, ruffling, roiling, jumbling, messing, confusing, muddling, disarranging, deranging, mixing up, scrambling, rumpling, mussing, botching, meddling, roughening, disheveling

overturning, reversing, inverting, changing, transposing, upturning, upending

flustering, churning, quaking, jolting, quivering, quavering, stirring, shaking, disquieting, jarring, shivering, twitching, agitating, palpitating, shuddering

infuriating, bothering, exasperating, exacerbating, badgering, annoying, rankling, grating, pestering, troublesome, nagging, chafing, harrying, inflaming, perturbing, irksome, hassling, harassing, needling, fretting, baiting, troubling, enraging, disturbing, bothersome, discomposing, arousing, bedeviling, peeving, irritating, aggravating, envenoming, teasing, vexing, tormenting, irking, antagonizing

overthrowing, revolting, shaking up, rebelling, mutinying

rebellious, revolutionary, upheaving, restructuring, mutinous

Usage examples:

• Wilhelm suddenly interrupted his explanation, for Andreas had suddenly started up, upsetting his stool, and exclaimed: " It's coming! - "The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers", Georg Ebers.
• That's what's upsetting us so! - "Gentle Julia", Booth Tarkington.
• When Owen quoted statistics to prove that as far as commerce and the quantity produced of commodities of all kinds was concerned, the last year had been a record one, they became more infuriated than ever, and talked threateningly of what they would like to do to those bloody Socialists who were upsetting everything. - "The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists", Robert Tressell.