The difference between Anger and Upset

When used as nouns, anger means a strong feeling of displeasure, hostility or antagonism towards someone or something, usually combined with an urge to harm, whereas upset means disturbance or disruption.

When used as verbs, anger means to cause such a feeling of antagonism in, whereas upset means to make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.

Upset is also adjective with the meaning: angry, distressed or unhappy.

check bellow for the other definitions of Anger and Upset

  1. Anger as a noun:

    A strong feeling of displeasure, hostility or antagonism towards someone or something, usually combined with an urge to harm.

    Examples:

    "You need to control your anger."

  2. Anger as a noun (obsolete):

    Pain or stinging.

  1. Anger as a verb (transitive):

    To cause such a feeling of antagonism in.

    Examples:

    "He who angers you conquers you."

  2. Anger as a verb (intransitive):

    To become angry.

    Examples:

    "You anger too easily."

  1. Upset as an adjective (of a person):

    Angry, distressed or unhappy.

    Examples:

    "He was upset when she refused his friendship."

    "My children often get upset with their classmates."

  2. Upset as an adjective (of a [[stomach]] or gastrointestinal tract, referred to as '''stomach'''):

    Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to vomit.

    Examples:

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

  1. Upset as a noun (uncountable):

    Disturbance or disruption.

    Examples:

    "My late arrival caused the professor considerable upset."

  2. Upset as a noun (countable, sports, politics):

    An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win.

  3. Upset as a noun (automobile insurance):

    An overturn.

    Examples:

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

  4. Upset as a noun:

    An upset stomach.

  5. Upset as a noun (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.

  1. Upset as a verb (transitive):

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

    Examples:

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

  2. Upset as a verb (transitive):

    To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).

    Examples:

    "Introducing a foreign species can upset the ecological balance."

    "The fatty meat upset his stomach."

  3. Upset as a verb (transitive):

    To tip or overturn (something).

  4. Upset as a verb (transitive):

    To defeat unexpectedly.

    Examples:

    "Truman upset Dewey in the 1948 US presidential election."

  5. Upset as a verb (intransitive):

    To be upset or knocked over.

    Examples:

    "The carriage upset when the horse bolted."

  6. Upset as a verb (obsolete):

    To set up; to put upright.

  7. Upset as a verb:

    To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end.

  8. Upset as a verb:

    To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.

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