Rotten

Adjective

 * 1) Of perishable items, overridden with bacteria and other infectious agents.
 * If you leave a bin unattended for a few weeks, the rubbish inside will turn rotten.
 * 1) In a state of decay.
 * The floors were damaged and the walls were rotten.
 * His mouth stank and his teeth were rotten.
 * 1) Cruel, mean or immoral.
 * That man is a rotten father.
 * This rotten policy will create more injustice in this country.
 * 1) Bad or terrible.
 * Why is the weather always rotten in this city?
 * It was a rotten idea to take the boat out today.
 * She has the flu and feels rotten.

Adverb

 * 1) To an extreme degree.
 * That kid is spoilt rotten.
 * The girls fancy him something rotten.

Adverbs for Rotten
utterly; uselessly; ruinously; abominably; unfortunately; disgustingly; unserviceably; unusably; disastrously; disgustingly; dangerously; hopelessly; indescribably.

Thesaurus
abandoned, abominable, amiss, amoral, appalling, arrant, atrocious, awful, bad, bad-smelling, baneful, barfy, base, beastly, beneath contempt, bent, blameworthy, brackish, brutal, bum, cankered, carious, cloying, conscienceless, contaminated, contemptible, corroded, corrupt, corrupted, crappy, criminal, crooked, crumbling, crumbly, dark, debased, debauched, decadent, decayed, deceitful, decomposed, decomposing, decrepit, degenerate, degraded, deplorable, depraved, despicable, deteriorating, detestable, devious, dire, disagreeable, disgusting, dishonest, dishonorable, disintegrating, displeasing, dissatisfactory, dissolute, doubtful, dreadful, dubious, egregious, enormous, evasive, evil, fecal, feculent, felonious, festering, fetid, filthy, fishy, flagitious, flagrant, flyblown, foul, fraudulent, friable, frowsty, frowy, frowzy, fulsome, funky, fusty, gamy, gangrened, gangrenous, gloppy, gone bad, graveolent, grievous, grim, gross, gunky, hateful, heinous, hideous, high, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, horrifying, icky, ill, ill-got, ill-gotten, ill-smelling, immoral, indirect, infamous, infirm, iniquitous, insidious, lamentable, loathsome, lousy, low, low-down, maggoty, malodorous, mawkish, mean, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, mildewed, mildewy, miserable, moldy, monstrous, morally polluted, mortified, mouldy, mucky, musty, nasty, nauseant, nauseated, nauseating, nauseous, necrosed, necrotic, nefarious, nidorous, noisome, not kosher, notorious, noxious, obnoxious, odious, odorous, off, offensive, olid, ordurous, outrageous, overripe, peccant, perverse, perverted, pitiable, pitiful, poisonous, polluted, poor, poorish, profligate, puky, punk, putrefied, putrescent, putrid, questionable, rancid, rank, reasty, reasy, rebarbative, reechy, reeking, reeky, regrettable, reprehensible, reprobate, repulsive, ropy, rotten at, rotting, rough, sad, scabby, scandalous, schlock, scummy, scurfy, scurvy, shabby, shady, shameful, shameless, shifty, shitty, shocking, shoddy, sick, sickening, sinister, slabby, slimy, slippery, sloppy, sloshy, sludgy, slushy, smellful, smelling, smelly, sordid, sour, soured, sphacelated, spoiled, spoilt, sposhy, squalid, stale, steeped in iniquity, stenchy, stinking, strong, stuffy, sulfurous, suppurating, suppurative, suspicious, tainted, terrible, too bad, touched, tragic, tricky, turned, ulcerated, unclean, unconscienced, unconscientious, unconscionable, underhand, underhanded, unethical, unfirm, unhappy, unhealthy, unpleasant, unprincipled, unsatisfactory, unsavory, unscrupulous, unsolid, unsound, unspeakable, unstable, unstraightforward, unsturdy, unsubstantial, unwell, up, venal, vice-corrupted, vile, villainous, vitiated, vomity, warped, weevily, wicked, without remorse, without shame, woeful, wormy, worst, worthless, wretched, wrong, yecchy, yucky

Etymology
From roten:, from  rotinn:, past participle of an unrecorded verb related to  rotna: and  rotian:. More at.

Adjective

 * Albanian: kalbur, prishur
 * Armenian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 腐爛, 腐烂, 腐朽
 * Crimean Tatar:
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: rot, verrot
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:, verfault
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:


 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 腐った, 腐朽
 * Korean: 썩다
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: putred
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: grod, lobhte
 * Slovak: hnilý, zhnitý
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: estropeado of meat, carcomido of wood, podrido smell, of eggs
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: చెడిపోయిన
 * Turkish: ,
 * Warlpiri: puka


 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: mädännäinen
 * German:
 * Italian:


 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: гадкий
 * Scottish Gaelic: grod, breun
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:

Anagrams

 * Trento

Noun
rotten



Verb
rotten (rotte, gerot)


 * 1) to rot, to go bad, to decay

Related terms

 * verrot