Dictionary Definition
revolting adj : highly offensive; arousing
aversion or disgust; "a disgusting smell"; "distasteful language";
"a loathsome disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to
me"; "revolting food"; "a wicked stench" [syn: disgusting, disgustful, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellent, repellant, repelling, skanky, wicked, yucky]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -əʊltɪŋ
Verb
revolting- present participle of revolt
- The peasants are revolting!
Noun
- The action of the verb to revolt in the "disgust or repel" sense only. A revolution is the only noun form for an anti-government uprising.
Adjective
revolting- That which revolts or is repelling.
- The most revolting smell was coming from the drains.
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abhorrent, abominable, appalling, awful, base, beastly, below contempt, beneath
contempt, contemptible, crude, despicable, detestable, disagreeable, disgusting, dreadful, execrable, fetid, forbidding, foul, frightful, fulsome, ghastly, grisly, gross, gruesome, hateful, heinous, hideous, horrible, horrid, icky, ignoble, inedible, loathsome, malodorous, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, rancid, rebarbative, repellent, repelling, repugnant, repulsive, rotten, sickening, stinking, terrible, unpleasant, vile, yucky