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ROTTEN
rotten
(adjective) having decayed or disintegrated; usually implies foulness; “dead and rotten in his grave”
icky, crappy, lousy, rotten, shitty, stinking, stinky
(adjective) very bad; “a lousy play”; “it’s a stinking world”
decayed, rotten, rotted
(adjective) damaged by decay; hence unsound and useless; “rotten floor boards”; “rotted beams”; “a decayed foundation”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
rotten (comparative rottener or more rotten, superlative rottenest or most rotten)
Of perishable items, overridden with bacteria and other infectious agents.
In a state of decay.
Cruel, mean or immoral.
Bad or terrible.
Usage notes
• Nouns to which “rotten” is often applied: wood, food, egg, meat, fruit, tomato, apple, banana, milk, vegetable, stuff, tooth, smell, person, kid, bastard, scoundrel, weather.
Adverb
rotten (comparative more rotten, superlative most rotten)
To an extreme degree.
Anagrams
• Trento, torent
Source: Wiktionary
Rot"ten, a. Etym: [Icel. rotinn; akin to Sw. rutten, Dan. radden. See Rot.]
Definition: Having rotted; putrid; decayed; as, a rotten apple; rotten meat. Hence: (a) Offensive to the smell; fetid; disgusting. You common cry or curs! whose breath I hate As reek of the rotten fens. Shak.
(b) Not firm or trusty; unsound; defective; treacherous; unsafe; as, a rotten plank, bone, stone. "The deepness of the rotten way." Knolles. Rotten borough. See under Borough.
– Rotten stone (Min.), a soft stone, called also Tripoli (from the country from which it was formerly brought), used in all sorts of finer grinding and polishing in the arts, and for cleaning metallic substances. The name is also given to other friable siliceous stones applied to like uses.
Syn.
– Putrefied; decayed; carious; defective; unsound; corrupt; deceitful; treacherous.
– Rot"ten*ly, adv.
– Rot"ten*ness, n.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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