rotten
Adjective Satellite
- very bad
- damaged by decay; hence unsound and useless
- "rotten floor boards"
- having decayed or disintegrated; usually implies foulness
- "dead and rotten in his grave"
Adj
- Of perishable items, overridden with bacteria and other infectious agents.
- In a state of decay.
- Cruel, mean or immoral.
- Bad or terrible.
- Of stone or rock, crumbling or friable; in a loose or disintegrated state.
- Very drunk, intoxicated.
Adv
- To an extreme degree.
Adjective
- In a state of decay; morally corrupt or very poor in quality.
Examples
- He felt his luck was ROTTEN after drawing nothing but vowels for three turns.
- His mouth stank and his teeth were rotten.
- If you leave a bin unattended for a few weeks, the rubbish inside will turn rotten.
- It was a rotten idea to take the boat out today.
- She has the flu and feels rotten.
- That kid is spoilt rotten.
- That man is a rotten father.
- The floors were damaged and the walls were rotten.
- The girls fancy him something rotten.
- This rotten policy will create more injustice in this country.
- Why is the weather always rotten in this city?
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English roten, from Old Norse rotinn (“decayed, rotten”), past participle of an unrecorded verb related to Old Norse rotna (“to rot”) and Old English rotian (“to rot”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *rutāną (“to rot”). See rot. By surface analysis, rot + -en (past participle).
Synonyms
crappy, decayed, icky, lousy, rotted, shitty, stinking, stinky, bad, carious, gone bad, gone off, maggoted, rotten, spoiled
Scrabble Score: 6
rotten: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordrotten: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
rotten: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary