Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Revolting"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Revolting \Re*volt"ing\, a.
Causing abhorrence mixed with disgust; exciting extreme
repugnance; loathsome; as, revolting cruelty. --
{Re*volt"ing*ly}, adv.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Revolt \Re*volt"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Revolted}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Revolting}.] [Cf. F. r['e]voller, It. rivoltare. See
{Revolt}, n.]
1. To turn away; to abandon or reject something;
specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence.
But this got by casting pearl to hogs, That bawl for
freedom in their senseless mood, And still revolt
when trith would set them free. --Milton.
HIs clear intelligence revolted from the dominant
sophisms of that time. --J. Morley.
2. Hence, to be faithless; to desert one party or leader for
another; especially, to renounce allegiance or subjection;
to rise against a government; to rebel.
Our discontented counties do revolt. --Shak.
Plant those that have revolted in the van. --Shak.
3. To be disgusted, shocked, or grossly offended; hence, to
feel nausea; -- with at; as, the stomach revolts at such
food; his nature revolts at cruelty.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
revolting
adj : highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; "a
disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome
disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me";
"revolting food"; "a wicked stench" [syn: {disgusting},
{disgustful}, {distasteful}, {foul}, {loathly}, {loathsome},
{repellent}, {repellant}, {repelling}, {wicked}, {yucky}]
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