REVOLTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does revolting mean? 

• REVOLTING (adjective)
  The adjective REVOLTING has 1 sense:

1. highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust

  Familiarity information: REVOLTING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REVOLTING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust

Synonyms:

disgustful; disgusting; distasteful; foul; loathly; loathsome; repellant; repellent; repelling; revolting; skanky; wicked; yucky

Context example:

a wicked stench

Similar:

offensive (unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses)

 Context examples 

We know who the author of the revolting business is, although one of the victims still escapes us.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I cannot give the further particulars of the horrible scene that followed. It was too revolting.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The manoeuvres of selfishness and duplicity must ever be revolting, but I have heard nothing which really surprises me.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Rather, as there was something abnormal and misbegotten in the very essence of the creature that now faced me—something seizing, surprising and revolting—this fresh disparity seemed but to fit in with and to reinforce it; so that to my interest in the man’s nature and character, there was added a curiosity as to his origin, his life, his fortune and status in the world.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Mrs Clay's selfishness was not so complicate nor so revolting as his; and Anne would have compounded for the marriage at once, with all its evils, to be clear of Mr Elliot's subtleties in endeavouring to prevent it.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Miss Susan Cushing, living at Cross Street, Croydon, has been made the victim of what must be regarded as a peculiarly revolting practical joke unless some more sinister meaning should prove to be attached to the incident.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"You're revolting," said Daisy. She turned to me, and her voice, dropping an octave lower, filled the room with thrilling scorn: "Do you know why we left Chicago? I'm surprised that they didn't treat you to the story of that little spree."

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)