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Grisly vs Revolting - What's the difference?

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Grisly is a related term of revolting.


As adjectives the difference between grisly and revolting

is that grisly is horrifyingly repellent; terrifying, gruesome while revolting is which revolts or is repelling.

As a verb revolting is

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As a noun revolting is

the action of the verb to revolt .

grisly

English

Adjective

(er)
  • horrifyingly repellent; terrifying, gruesome
    • The photos of the killings depict a grisly scene.

    See also

    * gristly * grizzly

    revolting

    English

    Verb

    (head)
    • The peasants are revolting !

    Noun

  • The action of the verb to revolt .
  • * 1837 , The American Biblical Repository (volume 9, page 316)
    • 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)
  • Which revolts or is repelling.
    • The most revolting smell was coming from the drains.