Abject vs Revolting - What's the difference?
abject | revolting | Related terms |
(obsolete) Rejected; cast aside.
Sunk to or existing in a low condition, state, or position.
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Cast down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; grovelling; despicable; lacking courage; offered in a humble and often ingratiating spirit.
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Showing utter hopelessness; helplessness; showing resignation; wretched.
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(obsolete) To cast off or out; to reject.
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(obsolete) To cast down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower; to debase.
English heteronyms
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The action of the verb to revolt .
* 1837 , The American Biblical Repository (volume 9, page 316)
Which revolts or is repelling.
Abject is a related term of revolting.
As adjectives the difference between abject and revolting
is that abject is (obsolete) rejected; cast aside while revolting is which revolts or is repelling.As nouns the difference between abject and revolting
is that abject is a person in the lowest and most despicable condition; a castaway; outcast while revolting is the action of the verb to revolt .As verbs the difference between abject and revolting
is that abject is (obsolete) to cast off or out; to reject while revolting is .abject
English
Etymology 1
* From (etyl) .Adjective
(en-adj)Usage notes
* Nouns to which "abject" is often applied: poverty, fear, terror, submission, misery, failure, state, condition, apology, humility, servitude, manner, coward.Synonyms
* beggarly, contemptible, cringing, degraded, groveling, ignoble, mean, mean-spirited, slavish, vile, worthlessVerb
(en verb)- (John Donne)
References
revolting
English
Verb
(head)- The peasants are revolting !
Noun
- Yet revoltings of the soul would attend this violence to nature, this abuse of physical and intellectual energy, while the beauty of social order would be defaced, and the fountains of earth's felicity broken up.
Adjective
(head)- The most revolting smell was coming from the drains.