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Revolting vs Vicious - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between revolting and vicious

is that revolting is which revolts or is repelling while vicious is pertaining to vice; characterised by immorality or depravity.

As a verb revolting

is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun revolting

is the action of the verb to revolt.

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.

    vicious

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Pertaining to vice; characterised by immorality or depravity.
  • *, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.195:
  • *:We may so seize on vertue, that if we embrace it with an over-greedy and violent desire, it may become vicious .
  • Evil, immoral or depraved.
  • Violent, destructive and cruel.
  • Savage and aggressive.
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  • Synonyms

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    Derived terms

    * vicious circle