单词 | revolting |
释义 | revolting (once / 1920 pages) adj Something revolting is disgusting or distasteful; it turns your stomach and can offend your senses. Things that are revolting are physically upsetting, like finding hair in your soup or stepping in dog poop. Eating spoiled food is revolting. Also, revolting things can be less physical. Learning that a friend lied to you is revolting. Corruption in government is revolting. Injustice is revolting. Many people find obscenity revolting. If it offends, disgusts, or upsets you, it's revolting. WORD FAMILYrevolting: revoltingly+/counterrevolution: counterrevolutionary, counterrevolutionist, counterrevolutions/counterrevolutionary: counterrevolutionaries/revolt: revolted, revolting, revolts, revolution/revolution: counterrevolution, revolutionary, revolutionise, revolutionism, revolutionize, revolutions/revolutionary: revolutionaries, revolutionarily/revolutionise: revolutionised, revolutionises, revolutionising/revolutionism: revolutionisms, revolutionist/revolutionist: revolutionists/revolutionize: revolutionized, revolutionizes, revolutionizing USAGE EXAMPLESA stunning crime when it happened on June 17, 2015, became more revolting during six days of testimony. Time(Dec 16, 2016) No need for the left’s imagined jackbooted thugs or Hillary Clinton’s revolting allusion to “boxcars.” Washington Post(Dec 12, 2016) The great theme of the election was its populist revolt; its governing mystery was which élite the voters were revolting against. The New Yorker(Dec 02, 2016) adj highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust revolting food Syn disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellant, repellent, repelling, skanky, wicked, yucky offensive unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses |
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