revolting Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb make revolution
    revolt.
    • The people revolted when bread prices tripled again
  2. verb fill with distaste
    gross out; repel; revolt; disgust.
    • This spoilt food disgusts me
  3. verb cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of
    nauseate; sicken; revolt; churn up; disgust.
    • The pornographic pictures sickened us
  4. adjective satellite highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
    distasteful; skanky; disgusting; loathly; loathsome; repellant; repellent; foul; disgustful; repelling; yucky; wicked.
    • a disgusting smell
    • distasteful language
    • a loathsome disease
    • the idea of eating meat is repellent to me
    • revolting food
    • a wicked stench

WordNet


Re*volt"ing adjective
Definitions
  1. Causing abhorrence mixed with disgust; exciting extreme repugnance; loathsome; as, revolting cruelty. -- Re*volt"ing*ly, adv.

Webster 1913