All upsetting synonyms
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U u adjective upsetting
- ghastly β shockingly frightful or dreadful; horrible: a ghastly murder.
- horrendous β shockingly dreadful; horrible: a horrendous crime.
- frightening β to make afraid or fearful; throw into a fright; terrify; scare.
- appalling β Something that is appalling is so bad or unpleasant that it shocks you.
- horrible β causing or tending to cause horror; shockingly dreadful: a horrible sight.
- discomfiting β to confuse and deject; disconcert: to be discomfited by a question.
- worrisome β worrying, annoying, or disturbing; causing worry: a worrisome problem.
- discomforting β an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
- harrowing β extremely disturbing or distressing; grievous: a harrowing experience.
- discommoding β to cause inconvenience to; disturb, trouble, or bother.
- jarring β to have a harshly unpleasant or perturbing effect on one's nerves, feelings, thoughts, etc.: The sound of the alarm jarred.
- discommodious β Not commodious; uncomfortable.
- horrifying β to cause to feel horror; strike with horror: The accident horrified us all.
- worrying β to torment oneself with or suffer from disturbing thoughts; fret.
- nauseating β causing sickness of the stomach; nauseous.
- demoralising β to deprive (a person or persons) of spirit, courage, discipline, etc.; destroy the morale of: The continuous barrage demoralized the infantry.
- agitating β Present participle of agitate.
- intrusive β tending or apt to intrude; coming without invitation or welcome: intrusive memories of a lost love.
- discouraging β to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
- devastating β If you describe something as devastating, you are emphasizing that it is very harmful or damaging.
- nauseous β affected with nausea; nauseated: to feel nauseous.
- infestive β Tending to infest; acting like an infection.
- harassing β to disturb persistently; torment, as with troubles or cares; bother continually; pester; persecute.
- discomposing β Present participle of discompose.
- woeful β full of woe; wretched; unhappy: a woeful situation.
- disconcerting β disturbing to one's composure or self-possession; upsetting, discomfiting.
- disquieting β Archaic. uneasy; disquieted.
- frustrating β to make (plans, efforts, etc.) worthless or of no avail; defeat; nullify: The student's indifference frustrated the teacher's efforts to help him.
- distressing β great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.
- exceptionable β Open to objection; causing disapproval or offense.
- junky β of the nature of junk; trashy.
- heartbreaking β causing intense anguish or sorrow.
- affecting β If you describe something such as a story or a piece of music as affecting, you think it is good because it makes you feel a strong emotion, especially sadness or pity.
- lamentable β that is to be lamented; regrettable; unfortunate: a lamentable decision.
- alarming β Something that is alarming makes you feel afraid or anxious that something unpleasant or dangerous might happen.
- depressing β Something that is depressing makes you feel sad and disappointed.
- embarrassing β Causing embarrassment.
- depressive β Depressive means relating to depression or to being depressed.
adj upsetting
- demoralizing β If something is demoralizing, it makes you lose so much confidence in what you are doing that you want to give up.
- confusing β Something that is confusing makes it difficult for people to know exactly what is happening or what to do.
- disorienting β to cause to lose one's way: The strange streets disoriented him.
- heart-rending β causing or expressing intense grief, anguish, or distress.
- disruptive β causing, tending to cause, or caused by disruption; disrupting: the disruptive effect of their rioting.
- dragger β any of various small motor trawlers operating off the North Atlantic coast of the U.S.
- grievous β causing grief or great sorrow: grievous news.
- disagreeable β contrary to one's taste or liking; unpleasant; offensive; repugnant.
- for the birds β any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard-shelled egg.
- distressful β causing or involving distress: the distressful circumstances of poverty and sickness.
noun upsetting
- disorientation β to disorient.
- confusion β If there is confusion about something, it is not clear what the true situation is, especially because people believe different things.