The difference between Angry and Upset

When used as adjectives, angry means displaying or feeling anger, whereas upset means angry, distressed or unhappy.


Upset is also noun with the meaning: disturbance or disruption.

Upset is also verb with the meaning: to make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.

check bellow for the other definitions of Angry and Upset

  1. Angry as an adjective:

    Displaying or feeling anger.

    Examples:

    "His face became angry."

    "An angry mob started looting the warehouse."

  2. Angry as an adjective (said about a wound or a rash):

    Inflamed and painful.

    Examples:

    "The broken glass left two angry cuts across my arm."

  3. Angry as an adjective (figuratively, said about the elements, like the sky or the sea):

    Dark and stormy, menacing.

    Examples:

    "Angry clouds raced across the sky."

  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.