Fearful vs Revolting - What's the difference?
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Frightening.
Frightened, filled with terror.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.4:
Terrible.
Tending to fear.
The action of the verb to revolt .
* 1837 , The American Biblical Repository (volume 9, page 316)
Which revolts or is repelling.
As adjectives the difference between fearful and revolting
is that fearful is frightening 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.fearful
English
Alternative forms
* fearefull (obsolete) * fearfull (obsolete)Adjective
(fearfuller)- Those two great champions did attonce pursew / The fearefull damzell with incessant payns [...].
- fearful boy
Synonyms
* (frightened) frightened, timid, timorous * See alsoExternal links
* *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.