Synonyms for revolt
rɪˈvoʊltre·volt

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1. revolt

   The essential idea of revolution is a change in the form of government or constitution, or a change of rulers, otherwise than as provided by the laws of succession, election, etc.; while such change is apt to involve armed hostilities, these make no necessary part of the revolution. The revolution by which Dom Pedro was dethroned, and Brazil changed from an empire to a republic, was accomplished without a battle, and almost without a shot. Anarchy refers to the condition of a state when human government is superseded or destroyed by factions or other causes. Lawlessness is a temper of mind or condition of the community which may result in anarchy. Confusion, disorder, riot, and tumult are incidental and temporary outbreaks of lawlessness, but may not be anarchy. Insubordination is individual disobedience. Sedition is the plotting, rebellion the fighting, against the existing government, but always with the purpose of establishing some other government in its place. When rebellion is successful it is called revolution; but there may be revolution without rebellion; as, the English Revolution of 1688. A revolt is an uprising against existing authority without the comprehensive views of change in the form or administration of government that are involved in revolution. Anarchy, when more than temporary disorder, is a proposed disintegration of society, in which it is imagined that social order might exist without government. Slaves make insurrection; soldiers or sailors break out in mutiny; subject provinces rise in revolt. Compare SOCIALISM.

   Synonyms:
   anarchy, confusion, disintegration, disorder, insubordination, insurrection, lawlessness, mutiny, rebellion, revolution, riot, sedition, tumult

   Antonyms:
   authority, command, control, domination, dominion, empire, government, law, loyalty, obedience, order, rule, sovereignty, submission, supremacy

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1. revoltverb

   Synonyms:
   rebel, struggle, kick, resist, rise, recalcitrate

   Antonyms:
   acquiesce, obey, submit

2. revoltnoun

   Synonyms:
   insurrection, sedition, rebellion, mutiny

   Antonyms:
   submission, acquiescence, loyalty

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1. rebellion, insurrection, revolt, rising, uprisingverb

   organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another

   Synonyms:
   rising, insurrection, ascension, rise, rebellion, ascent, uprising

2. revoltverb

   make revolution

   "The people revolted when bread prices tripled again"

   Synonyms:
   disgust, repel, churn up, nauseate, sicken, gross out

3. disgust, gross out, revolt, repelverb

   fill with distaste

   "This spoilt food disgusts me"

   Synonyms:
   push back, churn up, nauseate, gross out, rebuff, repel, sicken, drive, repulse, force back, freak out, disgust, drive back, fight off, beat back, snub, freak

4. disgust, revolt, nauseate, sicken, churn upverb

   cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of

   "The pornographic pictures sickened us"

   Synonyms:
   churn up, nauseate, come down, turn one's stomach, repel, sicken, disgust, gross out

Matched Categories

1. • Rebel
   • Repel
   • Stimulate

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1. consent of the governed

   because it means to turn around.

   n political philosophy, the phrase consent of the governed refers to the idea that a government's legitimacy and moral right to use state power is only justified and legal when consented to by the people or society over which that political power is exercised.

   Submitted by rinat on November 11, 2015  

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1. revoltverb

   Synonyms:
   rebel, mutiny, rise, renounce allegiance

2. revoltverb

   Synonyms:
   disgust, nauseate, sicken, shock

3. revoltnoun

   Synonyms:
   rebellion, insurrection, mutiny, sedition, defection, rising

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1. revoltnoun

   Synonyms:
   rebellion, sedition, uprising, mutiny, insurrection, insubordination, insurgency

2. revoltverb

   Synonyms:
   rebel, mutiny, disgust, nauseate, shock, offend

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1. List of paraphrases for "revolt":

   rebellion, uprising, insurgency, revolution, mutiny, rebel, coup, insurrection, revulsion, riot, al-thawra, intifada

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1. List of known nicknames for "Revolt":

   Arno Asmus, Shape Shifter

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1. Maria Lipman:

   To think that living standards go down and people, what, revolt? It's too simplistic, that would follow the logic of 'it's the economy, stupid.' But it's not just the economy, stupid.

2. John Kenneth Galbraith:

   When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs. They then accept, in some measure, that its errors are their errors, its aberrations their aberrations, that any revolt will be against them. It's a remarkably shrewd and rather conservative arrangement when one thinks of it.

3. Dina Dosmukhanova:

   There will be no revolt here - like in Ukraine, for instance.

4. Simone Weil:

   Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

5. Tammam Salam:

   Nobody has really grasped how fragile our situation is, if the Syrian refugees in Lebanon aren't fed, we will be confronted to a very worrisome situation, maybe even a revolt.