Rotten

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Being in a state of putrefaction or decay; decomposed.
  • adj. Having a foul odor resulting from or suggestive of decay; putrid.
  • adj. Made weak or unsound by rot: rotten floorboards.
  • adj. Morally corrupt or despicable: She's rotten to the core.
  • adj. Very bad; wretched: rotten weather.
  • ad. To a very great degree: The child is spoiled rotten.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Of perishable items, overridden with bacteria and other infectious agents.
  • adj. In a state of decay.
  • adj. Cruel, mean or immoral.
  • adj. Bad or terrible.
  • ad. To an extreme degree.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Offensive to the smell; fetid; disgusting.
  • adj. Not firm or trusty; unsound; defective; treacherous; unsafe.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Undergoing natural decomposition; affected by rot or organic dissolution; putrid (as animal and some vegetable matters), soft (as fruits, etc.), or weak (as vegetable fibers, fabrics, etc.) from elemental decay: as, a rotten carcass or egg; a rotten log or plank; rotten cloth.
  • Putrid from organic decay, or from the presence of decomposing matter; hence, of a putrid quality; ill-smelling; fetid.
  • Affected with the disease called rot, as sheep or other animals.
  • Unsound as if from rotting; in a loose or disintegrated state; soft or friable; yielding: as, rotten iron or stone.
  • Unsound in character or quality; in a corrupt or untrustworthy state; destitute of stability or integrity.
  • In printing, said of bad prints from woodcuts, that show holes and broken lines.
  • n. A dialectal variant of ratten.
  • Good for nothing; trashy; mean; detestable.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. damaged by decay; hence unsound and useless
  • adj. very bad
  • adj. having decayed or disintegrated; usually implies foulness
  • Equivalent
    unsound    bad    stale   
    Cross Reference
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    treacherous    unsound    putrefied    deceitful    carious    decayed    corrupt    defective    fetid    disgusting   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Cotton    Groton    cotton    forgotten    gotten    guncotton    misbegotten   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    dirty    worthless    wet    bloody    miserable    corrupt    char    raw    tough    sour