📐 Not straight 😠 Emotionally upset

tilted

8.1

Feeling upset and making more mistakes in a game

adjective
/ˈtɪltɪd/

Slang

: frustrado

Like I get tilted big time and I just can't shrug it.

Examples

After losing several matches in a row, he became tilted and made silly mistakes in the final game.
He realized he was tilted after his favorite team lost, which affected his gameplay in the tournament.
When she failed the test, she got tilted and struggled to concentrate in class afterwards.

Antonyms

calm

735 1.0

Not showing strong feelings and being very still

How Upset

enraged

4.1

tilted

Slang

8.1

frustrated

280 2.8

annoyed

77 1.0

calm

735 1.0

Surface Forms

tilted positive

Morphology

tilted = tilt (semi-transparent) = tilt + ed

Formally derived from 'tilt' + '-ed', but the gaming/informal sense ('emotionally upset') is a figurative extension not transparently predictable from the base for many learners.

Etymology

Tilted is also used in games to mean you are upset and play badly. This sense comes from old pinball machines that had a 'tilt' warning when someone shook them and the game stopped, so when a player is tilted they make more mistakes.