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

Schumer has turned the tables since 2025 Attitudes within the Democratic caucus have improved since last year, when the base revolted against Schumer for the March vote to keep the Republican president’s government open. — Mary Clare Jalonick, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026 Attitudes within the Democratic caucus have improved since last year, when the base revolted against Schumer for the March vote to keep the Republican president's government open. — ABC News, 12 Oct. 2026 The colony, however, had revolted against his brothers, prompting Spanish authorities to send a new governor to take over. — Matthew Ablon, CBS News, 12 Oct. 2026 Connecting suffrage to the early civil rights movement, Dowd Hall demonstrates how a sizable network of churchgoing white women revolted against the white patriarchy and helped put an end to lynching in the South. — Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2026 Vols fans revolted, burning couches and rioting on campus, while Kiffin left under cover of darkness. — Austin Perry Outkick, FOXNews.com, 18 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

Recent Examples of Synonyms for revolted

Adjective

When people hear of their upstairs-downstairs arrangement, no one is shocked.

— Anne Kadet, Curbed, 14 Oct. 2026
Garret said the community as a whole was supportive of their decision to protest, even if their team was a little shocked at first.

— Ryan Canfield OutKick, FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of shocked

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

Adjective

The goats’ dire situation first came to light when a former dairy employee raised concerns after witnessing emaciated and sick animals on the property, the former employee told the Idaho Statesman last year.

— Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman, 16 Oct. 2026
What’s interesting is that Conan Doyle got sick of writing Sherlock Holmes.

— Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of sick

Adjective

The bar has been sparsely attended on what would normally be busy Saturday nights as some angered customers have called for a boycott, according to The Boston Globe.

— Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 23 Sep. 2026
Police said the two male juveniles became angered when the other three would not take them to buy marijuana.

— Carlos E. Castañeda, CBS News, 20 Jan. 2026

Definition of angered

Verb

Last week, ProPublica detailed the case of two girls severely sickened last year after consuming raw goat milk from an unregulated farm in southern California.

— Annie Waldman, ProPublica, 8 Oct. 2026
The milk suspected to have sickened the girls didn’t come from one of the state’s dozen licensed farms.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2026