'Revolting' definitions:
Definition of 'revolting'
From: WordNet
adjective
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, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky]
Definition of 'Revolting'
From: GCIDE
- Revolt \Re*volt"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Revolted; p. pr. & vb. n. Revolting.] [Cf. F. r['e]voller, It. rivoltare. See Revolt, n.]
- 1. To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence. [1913 Webster]
- But this got by casting pearl to hogs, That bawl for freedom in their senseless mood, And still revolt when trith would set them free. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- His clear intelligence revolted from the dominant sophisms of that time. --J. Morley. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Hence, to be faithless; to desert one party or leader for another; especially, to renounce allegiance or subjection; to rise against a government; to rebel. [1913 Webster]
- Our discontented counties do revolt. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Plant those that have revolted in the van. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To be disgusted, shocked, or grossly offended; hence, to feel nausea; -- with at; as, the stomach revolts at such food; his nature revolts at cruelty. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Revolting'
From: GCIDE
- Revolting \Re*volt"ing\, a. Causing abhorrence mixed with disgust; exciting extreme repugnance; loathsome; as, revolting cruelty. -- {Re*volt"ing*ly}, adv. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'revolting'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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