Need another word that means the same as “revolting”? Find 12 synonyms and 30 related words for “revolting” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Revolting” are: disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellant, repellent, repelling, skanky, wicked, yucky
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “revolting” as an adjective can have the following definitions:
| disgustful | Highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust. |
| disgusting | Arousing revulsion or strong indignation. I think the decision is disgusting. |
| distasteful | Not pleasing in odor or taste. Distasteful language. |
| foul | Of a baseball not hit between the foul lines. Murder most foul. |
| loathly | Highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust. Loathly frogs and toads. |
| loathsome | Highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust. This loathsome little swine. |
| repellant | Incapable of absorbing or mixing with. |
| repellent | Able to repel a particular thing; impervious to a particular substance. The idea was slightly repellent to her. |
| repelling | Highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust. |
| skanky | Highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust. The skanky folk who populate LA s film scene. |
| wicked | Intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality. A wicked sense of humour. |
| yucky | Messy or disgusting. Yucky green grey slushy cabbage. |
| betrayer | One who reveals confidential information in return for money. |
| cheat | An act of cheating a fraud or deception. She always cheats at cards. |
| coup | (among some North American Indian peoples) an act of touching an armed enemy in battle as a deed of bravery, or an act of first touching an item of the enemy’s in order to claim it. He was overthrown in an army coup. |
| disloyal | Showing lack of love for your country. She was accused of being disloyal to the government. |
| disloyalty | The quality of being disloyal. An accusation of disloyalty and betrayal. |
| disobedience | The trait of being unwilling to obey. Disobedience to law is sometimes justified. |
| firebrand | Someone who deliberately foments trouble. A political firebrand. |
| instigator | A person who brings about or initiates something. He was not the instigator of the incident. |
| insubordination | An insubordinate act. He was dismissed for insubordination. |
| insurgent | A person fighting against a government or invading force; a rebel or revolutionary. An attack by armed insurgents. |
| insurrection | A violent uprising against an authority or government. Opposition to the new regime led to armed insurrection. |
| junta | A military or political group that rules a country after taking power by force. The country s ruling military junta. |
| mutiny | Engage in a mutiny against an authority. The crew were on the verge of mutiny. |
| overthrow | A score made because the ball has been overthrown. Their subversive activities are calculated to overthrow parliamentary democracy. |
| protest | Write or obtain a protest in regard to a bill. Two senior scientists resigned in protest. |
| quisling | A traitor who collaborates with an enemy force occupying their country. He had the Quisling owner of the factory arrested. |
| rebel | A person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority especially in the hope of improving conditions. Tory rebels. |
| rebellion | Refusal to accept some authority or code or convention. The Bretons rose in rebellion against the King. |
| renegade | Become a renegade. He was a renegade and social malcontent. |
| restive | (of a person) unable to remain still, silent, or submissive, especially because of boredom or dissatisfaction. He reiterated his determination to hold the restive republics together. |
| revolution | An instance of revolving. Near the solar equator the sun takes about 26 days to complete one revolution. |
| revolutionary | Markedly new or introducing radical change. A revolutionary discovery. |
| riot | Take part in a riot disturb the public peace by engaging in a riot. An unrepentant prodigal son rioting off to far countries. |
| rising | A movement upward. The reforms led to peasant risings. |
| seditious | Inciting or causing people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch. The letter was declared seditious. |
| subvert | Corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality. We must not let our civil liberties be subverted by the current crisis. |
| traitor | A person who says one thing and does another. He was a traitor to his own class. |
| treason | The action of betraying someone or something. They were convicted of treason. |
| turncoat | A disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc. They denounced him as a turncoat. |
| uprising | An act of resistance or rebellion; a revolt. An armed uprising. |
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