revolting

English

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -əʊltɪŋ

Verb

revolting

present participle of revolt
The feudal subjects decided to revolt.

Noun

revolting (countable and uncountable, plural revoltings)

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)

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.

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)

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