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Revolting vs Upsetting - What's the difference?

revolting | upsetting | Related terms |

As verbs the difference between revolting and upsetting

is that revolting is present participle of lang=en while upsetting is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between revolting and upsetting

is that revolting is the action of the verb to revolt while upsetting is the action of the verb upset.

As adjectives the difference between revolting and upsetting

is that revolting is which revolts or is repelling while upsetting is that causes or cause upset.

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.

    upsetting

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of the verb upset.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That causes or cause upset.
    • He found taking his cat to the vet to be put down very upsetting .
    The bodies lying at the scene of the crash were an upsetting sight.

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