revolting

verbnounadjectiveattested in dialogue

revolution; revolt

verb

1
Also a form of revoltpresent participle and gerund of revolt
The feudal subjects decided to revolt.

noun

1
revolution; revolt
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

1
repulsive, disgusting
The most revolting smell was coming from the drains.
Why anyone should want such a revolting object had always been a mystery to me.
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."

Forms

plural: revoltings
comparative: more revolting
superlative: most revolting

revive · To cause (a person or animal) to recover from a faint; to…Revoir · A surname from French.revolt · To rebel, particularly against authority.

revolting · revolution; revolt

revolution · A political upheaval in a government or state characterized…revolutionary · Of or pertaining to a revolution in government; tending to,…Revolutionary · Chopin's 'Revolutionary Etude' Op. 10 no. 12.

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