1. Highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
   "the town's revolting smell was from the factory nearby";
   - disgusting, disgustful [archaic], foul, loathly [literary], loathsome, repellent, repellant, wicked, yucky [informal], gross-out [informal], loathful [archaic], yukky [informal], sickening, nauseating, vile

1. Make revolution
   "The people revolted when bread prices tripled again"
    
2. Fill with distaste
   "This spoilt food revolts me";
   - disgust, gross out [informal], repel
    
3. Cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of
   "The pornographic pictures revolted us";
   - disgust, nauseate, sicken

See also: distasteful, gut-wrenching, offensive, unsavory [US], unsavoury [Brit, Cdn]

Type of: arise, excite, rebel, repel, repulse, rise, rise up, stimulate, stir

Encyclopedia: Revolting