REVOLTED Synonyms: 100 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in shocked

filled with disgust we were revolted when we learned about the prevalence of child labor in the Third World

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verb

past tense of revolt

as in disgusted

to cause to feel disgust the jury appeared to be revolted by the grisly details of the murder

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as in rebelled

to rise up against established authority the students practically revolted when the school cancelled the championship football game

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Recent Examples of revolted

Adjective

The stench of corruption might become so overwhelming that a revolted electorate rejects the entire enterprise. — Walter Russell Mead, The Atlantic, 24 Jan. 2026

Verb

The crowd revolted, showering the court with cups, beer cans and garbage. — Douglas Robson, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2026 In 2022, former Prime Minister Liz Truss was forced out after 44 days in office, after the bond market revolted against plans for unfunded fiscal spending and tax cuts. — John Towfighi, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2026 When Puck acquired Air Mail, the media company founded by former Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter, the latter’s luxury advertisers revolted. — Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 19 Aug. 2026 The wars began when the Yorkists revolted against the unstable Lancastrian king, Henry VI, forcing him to disinherit his son and accept a York as his successor. — Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 17 Aug. 2026 When the paper imposed a fee, readers revolted; the editors relented in some editions. — Sam Roberts, Longreads, 11 Aug. 2026 In 2013, Microsoft proposed similar restrictions for the original Xbox One, and Sony publicly committing to keep discs while Xbox users revolted. — Mia Osmonbekov, Fortune, 9 July 2026 Some fans revolted against head coach Fabian Hurzeler last winter before a turnaround in form. — Andy Naylor, New York Times, 23 June 2026 In 1839, 53 captive Mende people taken from Sierra Leone revolted aboard the Spanish ship La Amistad, diverting the ship from its original destination of Cuba toward the Northeast. — Calista Oetama, Hartford Courant, 22 June 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for revolted

Adjective

The man who was shocked was taken to Vista Medical Center East in Waukegan with life-threatening injuries.

— Adam Harrington, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2026
But something fascinating was happening behind the scenes, coinciding with the disaster that had sent Olin overseas and left her bandmates, Augustin and Nathan Slone — located in New York City — shocked.

— Julius Miller, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2026

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Verb

There are a lot of reasons to be disgusted with the Cowboys for their season-opening stink fest.

— Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Sep. 2026
Decent law-abiding Israelis living in Judea/Samaria are also disgusted by behavior of the few who violate civil law & Torah by violence & lawlessness.

— Rena Rowe, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of disgusted

Verb

Recent developments have made new an old idea that emerged among nineteenth-century intellectuals in tsarist Russia who rebelled against the elite fixation with the West.

— Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026
That year, Indian soldiers serving the British East India Company rebelled against the British commanding officers, killing many of them and sparking an uprising that spread rapidly across much of northern India.

— Aishwarya Lakshmi, The Conversation, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of rebelled

Verb

In July, Taylor Farms de Mexico recalled all iceberg lettuce sourced in Mexico from 27 states following a cyclospora outbreak that has sickened 18,445 people since the beginning of May.

— Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 4 Sep. 2026
Thousands of people were sickened by foodborne illnesses this summer.

— Dian Zhang, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of sickened

Verb

Mansur, who desperately longs to be reunited with his own mother, is appalled.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026
Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s ongoing satirical series at first appalled many viewers with its resolute political incorrectness and penchant for four-letter words from the mouths of babes, and that was nowhere more evident than in Cartman himself.

— Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Sep. 2026