revolting

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊltɪŋ

Verb

revolting

1. present participle and gerund of revolt

   The feudal subjects decided to revolt.

Noun

revolting (countable and uncountable, plural revoltings)

1. revolution; revolt
   • 1837, The American Biblical Repository, volume 9, page 316:

     Yet revoltings of the soul would attend this violence to nature, this abuse of physical and intellectual energy, while the beauty of social order would be defaced, and the fountains of earth's felicity broken up.

Adjective

revolting (comparative more revolting, superlative most revolting)

1. repulsive, disgusting

   The most revolting smell was coming from the drains.

   • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:

     Why anyone should want such a revolting object had always been a mystery to me.

   • 2023 December 27, David Turner, “Silent lines...”, in RAIL, number 999, page 29:

     The Leicester Daily Mercury reflected on how these concerns were the result of changing ways of getting around: "It might sound a bit crazy or just a little revolting that at Christmas works parties, some should drink themselves into a near-insensible state... This was not serious when they used public transport, but today more men and women use their own cars."

Translations

repellent

• Bulgarian: отблъскващ (bg) (otblǎskvašt), отвратителен (bg) (otvratitelen)
• Catalan: repugnant
• French: repoussant (fr), répugnant (fr)
• Georgian: აღმაშფოთებელი (aɣmašpotebeli)
• German: abstoßend (de)
• Hungarian: undorító (hu), felháborító (hu)
• Italian: repellente (it), ripugnante (it), rivoltante (it), disgustoso (it)
• Latin: taeter
• Romanian: dezgustător (ro)
• Spanish: estomagante
• Swedish: motbjudande (sv)