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Revolting vs Forbidding - What's the difference?

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Revolting is a related term of forbidding.


As verbs the difference between revolting and forbidding

is that revolting is while forbidding is .

As nouns the difference between revolting and forbidding

is that revolting is the action of the verb to revolt while forbidding is the act by which something is forbidden; a prohibition.

As adjectives the difference between revolting and forbidding

is that revolting is which revolts or is repelling while forbidding is highly unpleasant or disagreeable.

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.

    forbidding

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • highly unpleasant or disagreeable
  • threatening or menacing

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is forbidden; a prohibition.
  • * William Shakespeare
    • But all these poor forbiddings could not stay him.