rotten

[rot·ten]

Use the adjective rotten to describe something that is decaying or decayed. If you are like most people, you occasionally have to throw out rotten food sometimes, it's so nasty you can't even tell what the food was in its original form!

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Having rotted; putrid; decayed; as, a rotten apple; rotten meat.

Adjective
having rotted or disintegrated; usually implies foulness; "dead and rotten in his grave"

Adjective S.
very bad; "a lousy play"; "it''s a stinking world"

Adjective S.
damaged by decay; hence unsound and useless; "rotten floor boards"; "rotted beams"; "a decayed foundation"


a.
Having rotted; putrid; decayed; as, a rotten apple; rotten meat.

a.
Offensive to the smell; fetid; disgusting.

a.
Not firm or trusty; unsound; defective; treacherous; unsafe; as, a rotten plank, bone, stone.


Rotten

Rot"ten , a. [Icel. rotinn; akin to Sw. rutten, Dan. radden. See Rot.] 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.
(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 , 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.

Having rotted; putrid; decayed; as, a rotten apple; rotten meat.

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Usage Examples

It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core.

I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.

I wanted to be a great white hunter, a prospector for gold, or a slave trader. But then, when I was eight, my parents sent me to a boarding school in South Africa. It was the equivalent of a British public school with cold showers, beatings and rotten food. But what it also had was a library full of books.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' is a good one because it not only turned out, I think, to be a really funny movie but it was also a delight to shoot. We were in the South of France, working with Glenne Headly and Michael Caine and Frank Oz the director - who were just fun.

We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn't always possible for women to become doctors or managers or insurance people. Let them be armed with a true picture of the way we want it to be.

Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there's these observations about romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other.

The truth is, I wrote a novel when I was 23. It's hideously bad. Truly rotten.

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