Rotten

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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               You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate
               As reek of the rotten fens.          --Shak.
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     (b) Not firm or trusty; unsound; defective; treacherous;
         unsafe; as, a rotten plank, bone, stone. "The deepness of
         the rotten way." --Knolles.
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     {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.
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     Syn: Putrefied; decayed; carious; defective; unsound;
          corrupt; deceitful; treacherous.
          [1913 Webster] -- {Rot"ten*ly}, adv. -- {Rot"ten*ness},
          n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  rotten
       adj 1: very bad; "a lousy play"; "it's a stinking world" [syn: {icky},
               {crappy}, {lousy}, {shitty}, {stinking}, {stinky}]
       2: having rotted or disintegrated; usually implies foulness;
          "dead and rotten in his grave" [ant: {unrotten}]
       3: damaged by decay; hence unsound and useless; "rotten floor
          boards"; "rotted beams"; "a decayed foundation" [syn: {decayed},
           {rotted}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  289 Moby Thesaurus words for "rotten":
     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