tilted
adj.adj. feeling angry, frustrated, or upset because things are going wrong, especially in a game. You use this when you start making mistakes because you are too annoyed to think clearly.
adj. describing a state of emotional frustration or agitation, typically resulting from a series of losses or setbacks. Often used predicatively to describe a player whose performance suffers due to a lack of composure.
I lost three games in a row and now I am totally tilted.
After the referee made that controversial call, the whole team got tilted and lost their focus for the rest of the match.
Professional poker players must learn to recognise when they are becoming tilted, as emotional volatility often leads to irrational betting patterns that opponents can easily exploit.
Commonly follows linking verbs like 'get', 'feel', or 'become'.
He was tilted about the newsHe was upset about the newsTilted is specific to competitive contexts like gaming or sports where frustration causes a drop in performance; it is not a general synonym for 'sad' or 'angry'.