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rotten
[ rot-n ]
adjective
- decomposing or decaying; putrid; tainted, foul, or bad-smelling.
Antonyms: sound
- corrupt or morally offensive.
Synonyms: immoral
Antonyms: moral
- wretchedly bad, unpleasant, or unsatisfactory; miserable:
a rotten piece of work; a rotten day at the office.
- contemptible; despicable:
a rotten little liar; a rotten trick.
Synonyms: treacherous, unwholesome, disgusting
- (of soil, rocks, etc.) soft, yielding, or friable as the result of decomposition.
- Australian Slang. drunk.
rotten
/ ˈrɒtən /
adjective
- affected with rot; decomposing, decaying, or putrid
- breaking up, esp through age or hard use; disintegrating
rotten ironwork
- morally despicable or corrupt
- untrustworthy, disloyal, or treacherous
- informal.unpleasant, unfortunate, or nasty
rotten luck
rotten weather
- informal.unsatisfactory or poor
rotten workmanship
- informal.miserably unwell
- informal.distressed, uncomfortable, and embarrassed
I felt rotten when I told him to go
- (of rocks, soils, etc) soft and crumbling, esp as a result of weathering
- slang.intoxicated; drunk
adverb
- extremely; very much
men fancy her rotten
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Derived Forms
- ˈrottenness, noun
- ˈrottenly, adverb
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Other Words From
- rotten·ly adverb
- rotten·ness noun
- half-rotten adjective
- un·rotten adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of rotten1
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Origin of rotten1
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Example Sentences
We are a nation in which a few rotten apples are spoiling different barrels.
It has grown from a rotten root—striving to replace human judgment with detailed dictates.
Which to me, after the initial explosion of the Sex Pistols, always made Rotten kind of boring.
“I believe we are in the hour of the debacle of the institutions, they cannot be any more rotten,” said Padre Goyo.
Yeonmi had been hospitalized at the time for a stomach illness, likely from her diet of rotten potatoes.
But this alliance is rotten, and cannot endure; the Western men are no partizans of slavery.
Sounds rotten, but that's their style; and you've been through the mill at home enough to know what it is to be knifed socially.
Clodd tells us that one cubic inch of rotten stone contains 41 thousand million vegetable skeletons of diatoms.
It is like the eating of a smothered fire into rotten timber in that it is noiseless and without haste.
That we should attack one week and the French another week is rotten tactically; but, practically, we have no option.
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