different between disquiet vs upset

English

Etymology

dis- +? quiet.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d?s?kwa??t/
• Rhymes: -a??t
• Hyphenation: dis?quiet

Noun

disquiet (countable and uncountable, plural disquiets)

1. Lack of quiet; absence of tranquility in body or mind

   Synonyms: anxiety, disturbance, restlessness, uneasiness

Translations

Adjective

disquiet (comparative more disquiet, superlative most disquiet)

1. (chiefly obsolete) Deprived of quiet; impatient, restless, uneasy.
   • 1669, anonymous [Robert Fleming], The Fulfilling of the Scripture, or An Essay Shewing the Exact Accomplishment of the Word of God in His Works of Providence, Performed and to be Performed. For Confirming the Beleevers, and Convincing the Atheists of the Present Time. Containing in the End a Few Rare Histories of the Works and Servants of God in the Church of Scotland, [Rotterdam: s.n.], OCLC 9818801; republished as The Fulfilling of the Scripture, in Three Parts. [...] In Two Volumes, volume I, Glasgow: Printed by Stephen Young, Prince's-Street, 1801, OCLC 561020060, page 234:

     How rare is it for men to get their lot in the world brought up to their de?ire? but are ?till at ?ome jar with their pre?ent condition, ?o that oft there needs no more to turn men discontent but the thought of ?ome lot, which they apprehend more ?ati?fying than their own, the want whereof turns them more di?quiet than all their enjoyments are plea?ing; […]

   • 1719, “Robinson Crusoe” [pseudonym; Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Suprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who Lived Eight and Twenty Years, All Alone in an Un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having Been Cast on Shore by Shipwreck, whereon All the Men Perished but Himself. With an Account how He Was at Last as Strangely Deliver'd by Pyrates. Written by Himself, London: W. Taylor, OCLC 752551201; republished as The Wonderful Life, and Most Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York; Mariner. Containing a Full and Particular Account How He Lived Eight and Twenty Years in an Un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America: How His Ship was Lost in a Storm, and All His Companions Drowned; and How He was Cast upon the Shore by the Wreck. With a True Relation How He was at last Miraculously Preserved by Pyrates. Faithfully Epitomized from the Three Volumes, and Adorned with Cutts Suited to the Most Remarkable Stories, London: Printed for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, at the Red Lion, in Pater noster Row; R. Ware, at the Bible and Sun, in Amen-Corner; and J. Hodges, at the Looking-glass, on London-Bridge, 1737, OCLC 559894466, page 51:

     From this place it was that i u?ed to go often to view my boat; and now i ?hall relate a thing that gave me the mo?t di?quiet of any thing i had ever met with, ?ince my fir?t coming into the i?land. […] [O]ne day, as i was going to my boat, as u?ual, i perceived on the ?and, the print of a man's naked foot, and had i ?een an apparition, i could not have been more terrified.

Derived terms

• disquieting
• disquietude

Verb

disquiet (third-person singular simple present disquiets, present participle disquieting, simple past and past participle disquieted)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To make (someone or something) worried or anxious.

Synonyms

• unquiet (now rare)
• unsettle

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle English upset (“the act of setting up; establishment”), from Middle English upsetten, corresponding to up- +? set. Cognate with Middle Low German upset (“setup; arrangement”).

Pronunciation

Noun

• enPR: ?p?s?t, IPA^(key): /??ps?t/

Adjective, verb

• enPR: ?ps?t?, IPA^(key): /?p?s?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Adjective

upset (comparative more upset, superlative most upset)

1. (of a person) Angry, distressed, or unhappy.

   He was upset when she refused his friendship.

   My children often get upset with their classmates.

2. (of a stomach or gastrointestinal tract, referred to as stomach) Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to vomit.

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

Synonyms

• (angry, distressed, unhappy): See angry, distressed and unhappy
  • in a tizzy

Derived terms

• upset price

Translations

Noun

upset (countable and uncountable, plural upsets)

1. (uncountable) Disturbance or disruption.

   My late arrival caused the professor considerable upset.

2. (countable, sports, politics) An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win.
3. (automobile insurance) An overturn.

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

4. An upset stomach.
   • 1958 May 12, advertisement, Life, volume 44, number 19, page 110 [3]:

     "Bob, let's cancel the babysitter. With this upset stomach, I can't go out tonight.

     "Try Pepto-Bismol. Hospital tests prove it relieves upsets. And it's great for indigestion or nausea, too!"

5. (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.
6. (aviation) The dangerous situation where the flight attitude or airspeed of an aircraft is outside the designed bounds of operation, possibly resulting in loss of control.

Synonyms

• (disturbance, disruption): disruption, disturbance
• (unexpected victory of a competitor):

Translations

Derived terms

• jet upset

Verb

upset (third-person singular simple present upsets, present participle upsetting, simple past and past participle upset)

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

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

2. (transitive) To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).

   Introducing a foreign species can upset the ecological balance.

   The fatty meat upset his stomach.

3. (transitive) To tip or overturn (something).
   • 1924, W. D. Ross translator, Aristitle, Metaphysics, Book 1, Part 9, The Classical Library, Nashotah, Wisconsin, 2001.

     But this argument, which first Anaxagoras and later Eudoxus and certain others used, is very easily upset; for it is not difficult to collect many insuperable objections to such a view.

4. (transitive) To defeat unexpectedly.

   Truman upset Dewey in the 1948 US presidential election.

5. (intransitive) To be upset or knocked over.

   The carriage upset when the horse bolted.

6. (obsolete) To set up; to put upright.
   • R. of Brunne

     with sail on mast upset

7. To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end.
8. To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.

Synonyms

• (make someone angry, distressed or unhappy): See anger, distress, forset, and sadden
• (disturb, disrupt, adversely alter): disrupt, disturb, forset, turn upside down
• (tip, overturn): invert, overturn, forset, tip, tip over, tip up, turn over, turn upside down

Derived terms

• upset the applecart
• upset the natives

Translations

Anagrams

• TUPEs, Tse-p'u, puets, set up, set-up, setup, spute, stupe