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Rotten

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Adjective

1. crappy, icky, lousy, rotten, shitty, stinking, stinky

very bad

Example Sentences:
'a lousy play'
'it's a stinking world'

2. decayed, rotted, rotten

damaged by decay; hence unsound and useless

Example Sentences:
'rotten floor boards'
'rotted beams'
'a decayed foundation'

3. rotten

having decayed or disintegrated; usually implies foulness

Example Sentences:
'dead and rotten in his grave'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Rotten

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adjective
1. 
affected with rot; decomposing, decaying, or putrid
2. 
breaking up, esp through age or hard use; disintegrating
rotten ironwork
3. 
morally despicable or corrupt
4. 
untrustworthy, disloyal, or treacherous
5. informal
unpleasant, unfortunate, or nasty
rotten luck
rotten weather
6. informal
unsatisfactory or poor
rotten workmanship
7. informal
miserably unwell
8. informal
distressed, uncomfortable, and embarrassed
I felt rotten when I told him to go
9. 
(of rocks, soils, etc) soft and crumbling, esp as a result of weathering
10. slang, mainly Australian and New Zealand
intoxicated; drunk
adverb informal
11. 
extremely; very much
men fancy her rotten

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Rotten

see synonyms of rotten
adjective
1. 
in a decayed or decomposed state; spoiled, putrefied, tainted, etc.
2. 
having a bad odor because of decomposition or decay; putrid; foul-smelling
3. 
morally corrupt or offensive; dishonest, open to bribery, etc.
4. 
unsound or weak, as if decayed within
5. 
soft or easily broken as because of decomposition; friable
said of rocks, ice, etc.
6.  Slang
very bad, unsatisfactory, nasty, etc.

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.


Rotten

see synonyms of rotten
adj. rot·ten·er, rot·ten·est
1. Being in a state of putrefaction or decay; decomposed.
2. Having a foul odor resulting from or suggestive of decay; putrid.
3. Made weak or unsound by rot: rotten floorboards.
4. Morally corrupt or despicable: She's rotten to the core.
5. Very bad; wretched: rotten weather.
adv.
To a very great degree: The child is spoiled rotten.

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