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Repulsive vs Revolting - What's the difference?

repulsive | revolting |

As adjectives the difference between repulsive and revolting

is that repulsive is tending to rouse aversion or to repulse while revolting is which revolts or is repelling.

As a verb revolting is

present participle of lang=en.

As a noun revolting is

the action of the verb to revolt.

repulsive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • tending to rouse aversion or to repulse
  • (physics) having the capacity to repel

    • Usage notes

    * Nouns to which "repulsive" is often applied: force, interaction, potential.

    Synonyms

    * repellent * similar: disgusting, vile

    Antonyms

    * (tending to rouse aversion ) attractive * (physics, having the capacity to repel ) attractive

    Anagrams

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    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.