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Revolting vs Grim - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between revolting and grim

is that revolting is which revolts or is repelling while grim is dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding.

As a verb revolting

is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun revolting

is the action of the verb to revolt.

As a proper noun Grim is

{{surname|A=An|English}}, probably derived from Old English grimm or Old Norse grimr or grimmr.

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.

    grim

    English

    Adjective

    (grimmer)
  • dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding
    • Life was grim in many northern industrial towns.
  • rigid and unrelenting
    • His grim determination enabled him to win.
  • ghastly or sinister
    • A grim castle overshadowed the village.
  • * 2012 March 22, Scott Tobias, “ The Hunger Games''”, in ''AV Club :
    • In movie terms, it suggests Paul Verhoeven in Robocop/Starship Troopers mode, an R-rated bloodbath where the grim spectacle of children murdering each other on television is bread-and-circuses for the age of reality TV, enforced by a totalitarian regime to keep the masses at bay.
  • (UK, slang) disgusting; gross
    • Wanna see the dead rat I found in my fridge? —Mate, that is grim !