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Malodorous vs Revolting - What's the difference?

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Malodorous is a related term of revolting.


As adjectives the difference between malodorous and revolting

is that malodorous is having a bad odor 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 .

malodorous

English

Alternative forms

* malodourous

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having a bad odor
    • There were tons of malodorous garbage bags outside her house.
  • (figuratively) Highly improper.

    • Synonyms

    * (having a bad odor) foul, putrid, smelly, stinky, stenchy, fetid, funky, noisome, reeky, reeking, stinking, mephitic, foul-smelling, rank, rotten, smelly, vile, offensive; see also

    Antonyms

    * (having a good odor) fragrant

    Related terms

    * malodor * malodorously * malodorousness

    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.