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upsetting
Synonyms and Antonyms of upsetting
- the constant arguing is upsetting to a sensitive person like your grandmother
daunting, demoralizing, discomfiting, disconcerting, discouraging, disheartening, dismaying, dispiriting
harassing, persecutive, persecutory
alarming, dire, direful, dread, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, forbidding, formidable, frightening, frightful, ghastly, hair-raising, horrendous, horrible, horrifying, intimidating, scary, shocking, terrible, terrifying
calming, quieting, settling, soothing
comforting, consoling, dreamy, inviting, lulling, narcotic, pacifying, relaxing, sedative, tranquilizing (also tranquillizing)
Synonyms and Antonyms of upsetting
- the smallest things can upset us if we're already stressed
agitating, ailing, alarming (also alaruming), bothering, concerning, derailing, discomforting, discomposing, dismaying, disquieting, distempering, distracting, distressing, disturbing, exercising, flurrying, frazzling, freaking (out), fussing, hagriding, perturbing, undoing, unhinging, unsettling, weirding out, worrying
aggravating, angering, annoying, bugging, chafing, chivying (or chivvying), exasperating, fretting, galling, getting, grating, harassing, harrying, irking, irritating, nettling, peeving, pestering, piquing, putting off, putting out, riling, vexing
bedeviling, haunting, plaguing
abashing, confounding, confusing, discomfiting, disconcerting, discountenancing, embarrassing, fazing, flustering, jarring, mortifying, nonplussing (also nonplusing), rattling, shaking up
daunting, demoralizing, discouraging, disheartening, dispiriting, unnerving
calming, composing, quieting, settling, soothing, tranquilizing (also tranquillizing)
- the narrow boat upsets easily and should be handled with care
inverting, oversetting, overthrowing, pitchpoling, toppling, tumping (over) [chiefly Southern], upending
careening, heeling, keeling, leaning, listing, tilting, tipping
- the change in the bus schedule upset our daily routine
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