revolting


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re·volt·ing

 (rĭ-vōl′tĭng)
adj.
Causing abhorrence or disgust. See Synonyms at offensive.
re·volt′ing·ly adv.
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revolting

(rɪˈvəʊltɪŋ)
adj
1. causing revulsion; nauseating, disgusting, or repulsive
2. informal unpleasant or nasty: that dress is revolting.
reˈvoltingly adv
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re•volt•ing

(rɪˈvoʊl tɪŋ)

adj.
disgusting; repulsive.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.revolting - highly offensiverevolting - 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"
foul, loathly, disgustful, disgusting, repelling, skanky, yucky, distasteful, loathsome, repellant, repellent, wicked
offensive - unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses; "offensive odors"
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revolting

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revolting

adjective
Extremely unpleasant to the senses or feelings:
atrocious, disgusting, foul, horrid, nasty, nauseating, offensive, repellent, repulsive, sickening, ugly, unwholesome, vile.
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Translations
كَرِيهمُثير للإشْمِئْزاز
odporný
modbydelig
ällöttävä
gnjusan
viîbjóîslegur
実に嫌な
역하게 하는
gnusen
upprörande
น่ารังเกียจ
kinh tởm

revolting

[rɪˈvəʊltɪŋ] ADJ (= disgusting) [smell, taste, sight, habit, person] → repugnante, asqueroso; [behaviour, story] → repugnante; [place, weather] → asqueroso; [colour, dress] → horroroso, repelente
it smells/tastes revolting → tiene un olor/sabor repugnante, huele/sabe que da asco
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

revolting

[rɪˈvəʊltɪŋ] adj → dégoûtant(e)
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

revolting

adj (= repulsive, disgusting) → abstoßend; meal, story → ekelhaft; (inf: = unpleasant) weather, colour, dress → scheußlich, abscheulich; person → widerlich
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revolting

[rɪˈvəʊltɪŋ] adj → rivoltante, ripugnante
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

revolt

(rəˈvəult) verb
1. to rebel (against a government etc). The army revolted against the dictator.
2. to disgust. His habits revolt me.
noun
1. the act of rebelling. The peasants rose in revolt.
2. a rebellion.
reˈvolted adjective
having a feeling of disgust. I felt quite revolted at the sight.
reˈvolting adjective
causing a feeling of disgust. revolting food.
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revolting

→ كَرِيه odporný modbydelig scheußlich αποκρουστικός repugnante ällöttävä révoltant gnjusan rivoltante 実に嫌な 역하게 하는 walgelijk opprørsk oburzający revoltante отвратительный upprörande น่ารังเกียจ iğrenç kinh tởm 令人厌恶的
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The farming of the land, as he was managing it, had become not merely unattractive but revolting to him, and he could take no further interest in it.
He sent the saddle without an answer, and with a sense of having done something shameful; he handed over all the now revolting business of the estate to the bailiff, and set off next day to a remote district to see his friend Sviazhsky, who had splendid marshes for grouse in his neighborhood, and had lately written to ask him to keep a long-standing promise to stay with him.
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A state like this would ever be exposed to the invasions of those who were powerful and inclined to attack it; but, as has been already mentioned, its situation preserves it, as it is free from the inroads of foreigners; and for this reason the family slaves still remain quiet at Crete, while the Helots are perpetually revolting: for the Cretans take no part in foreign affairs, and it is but lately that any foreign troops have made an attack upon the island; and their ravages soon proved the ineffectualness of their laws.
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That he could, with relish, eat raw meat that had been buried by himself weeks before, and enjoy small rodents and disgusting grubs, seems to us who have been always "civilized" a revolting fact; but had we learned in childhood to eat these things, and had we seen all those about us eat them, they would seem no more sickening to us now than do many of our greatest dainties, at which a savage African cannibal would look with repugnance and turn up his nose.
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