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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

REVOLT'ING, ppr.
1. Changing sides; deserting.
2. Disclaiming allegiance and subjection to a prince or state.
3. Rejecting the authority of God.
4. a. Doing violence, as to the feelings; exciting abhorrence.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: 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, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1806 extremely offensive <revolting behavior> <a revolting odor> • revoltingly adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. disgusting, horrible. Derivatives: revoltingly adv.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you say that something or someone is revolting, you mean you think they are horrible and disgusting. The smell in the cell was revolting... = disgusting ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Shocking, disgusting, sickening, nauseating, nauseous, repulsive, offensive, obnoxious, hateful, horrible, abominable, monstrous, abhorrent.

Moby Thesaurus

abhorrent, abominable, appalling, awful, base, beastly, below contempt, beneath contempt, contemptible, crude, despicable, detestable, disagreeable, disgusting, dreadful, execrable, fetid, forbidding, foul, frightful, fulsome, ghastly, grisly, gross, gruesome, hateful, heinous, hideous, horrible, horrid, icky, ignoble, inedible, loathsome, malodorous, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, rancid, rebarbative, repellent, repelling, repugnant, repulsive, rotten, sickening, stinking, terrible, unpleasant, vile, yucky