You can overdose on coffee if you drink about 30 cups in a brief period to get close to a lethal dosage of caffeine.
rottener
comparative form of rotten
• retentor
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
24 May 2025
(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”
You can overdose on coffee if you drink about 30 cups in a brief period to get close to a lethal dosage of caffeine.