upsetting

Definitions

Causing feelings of anxiety, unhappiness, or distress.

Disrupting the normal state or order of something.

Examples

It was very upsetting to hear the news about the sudden cancellation of the event.

She found the graphic nature of the documentary quite upsetting.

Synonyms

distressing disturbing troubling unsettling disconcerting painful aggravating

Antonyms

comforting soothing calming reassuring pleasant relaxing delightful