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View synonyms for revolting

revolting

[ ri-vohl-ting ]

adjective

  1. disgusting; repulsive:

    a revolting sight.



revolting

/ rɪˈvəʊltɪŋ /

adjective

  1. causing revulsion; nauseating, disgusting, or repulsive
  2. informal.
    unpleasant or nasty

    that dress is revolting



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Derived Forms

  • reˈvoltingly, adverb

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Other Words From

  • re·volting·ly adverb
  • nonre·volting adjective
  • nonre·volting·ly adverb
  • unre·volting adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of revolting1

First recorded in 1585–95; revolt + -ing 2

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Example Sentences

In the film, the humans have amassed a giant armory of weapons, which makes the apes very on-edge, and leads to them revolting.

To Helms, LGBT Americans were “weak, morally sick wretches,” and AIDS education was “obscene” and “revolting.”

To Helms, LGBT Americans were "weak, morally sick wretches," and AIDS education was "obscene" and "revolting."

Guinn is mercifully sparing with the gory details, though nothing can make them anything less than revolting.

If SarahPAC were a publicly traded company, its shareholders would be revolting.

I watched it, with every fiber of my being revolting against such savagery, and the need for it.

They poured into the ear of the humiliated queen the most revolting and loathsome execrations.

And so an end to incidents as revolting as anything to be found in the lengthy annals of crime.

Nothing is more revolting than a woman who catches the tone and expressions of men.

In tracing the natural history of a public-house I have found the respectable dullards the most revolting of my subjects.

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