What does Rotten mean?
Definitions for Rotten
ˈrɒt nrot·ten
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word Rotten.
Princeton's WordNet
icky, crappy, lousy, rotten, shitty, stinking, stinkyadjective
very bad
"a lousy play"; "it's a stinking world"
decayed, rotten, rottedadjective
damaged by decay; hence unsound and useless
"rotten floor boards"; "rotted beams"; "a decayed foundation"
rottenadjective
having decayed or disintegrated; usually implies foulness
"dead and rotten in his grave"
Wiktionary
rottenadverb
To an extreme degree.
rottenadjective
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.
rottenadjective
In a state of decay.
rottenadjective
Cruel, mean or immoral.
rottenadjective
Bad or terrible.
Etymology: From roten, from rotinn, past participle of an unrecorded verb related to rotna and rotian. More at rot.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
ChatGPT
rotten
Rotten is a term used to describe something that has decayed, degraded, or deteriorated, often due to age or lack of preservation. This term is frequently used to refer to food or organic materials that have become unfit for consumption or use due to bacterial or fungal actions. It can also be metaphorically used to describe something as extremely bad, unpleasant, or corrupt.
Webster Dictionary
Rottenadjective
having rotted; putrid; decayed; as, a rotten apple; rotten meat
Rottenadjective
offensive to the smell; fetid; disgusting
Rottenadjective
not firm or trusty; unsound; defective; treacherous; unsafe; as, a rotten plank, bone, stone
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Rotten
rot′n, adj. putrefied: corrupt: decomposed: unsound: treacherous: fetid: friable, as rottenstone.—adv. Rott′enly, in a rotten manner: defectively.—ns. Rott′enness; Rott′enstone, a soft and earthy stone powdered to polish brass, &c.—v.t. to polish with rottenstone. [Rot.]
British National Corpus
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Rotten' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4105
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Anagrams for Rotten »
Trento
terton
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Rotten in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Rotten in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of Rotten in a Sentence
The UK has consistently underperformed on the global stage since June 2016's Brexit vote and sterling has failed to regain the levels at which The UK traded before Britain decide to leave the EU, that rotten effort may mean that The UK stocks are unloved and therefore potentially undervalued.
I don't think President Biden's textbook approach to correctly handling the discovery of misplaced documents will have any impact on his re-election if he decides to run, the difference between the two is apples and rotten oranges.
Nazism ... destroys the very soul of our civilization ... I have not taken the same grave view of Bolshevism, for it never was clear to me that Bolshevism, in spite of its brutalities and cruelties, really threatened the essentials of our ethical civilization. And after all it was a revolution of a semi-barbarous people against a rotten government and an effete church. Nazi-ism in highly cultured Germany is a very different affair.
We think that a nauseated feeling is an evolutionary adaptation to eject food that was rotten or toxic.
Don’t let your talents get rotten like fruits and vegetables that don’t sell in the market! -Aaron Jhinkoo
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- فاسدArabic
- podritCatalan, Valencian
- shnilýCzech
- råddenDanish
- scheußlich, verfault, faulGerman
- σάπιος, σαθρός, φαύλοςGreek
- putra, aĉaEsperanto
- malo, putrefactoSpanish
- پوسیدهPersian
- mädännäinen, mätä, mädäntynytFinnish
- rotinFaroese
- pourri, mauvaisFrench
- lofaIrish
- lobhte, grod, breunScottish Gaelic
- rohadtHungarian
- փտածArmenian
- busukIndonesian
- marcio, marcito, malvagioItalian
- 腐った, 腐朽Japanese
- 썩다Korean
- sapuvisLatvian
- piro, manumanuāMāori
- ပုပ်Burmese
- gemeen, rot, verrotDutch
- råttenNorwegian
- dláádNavajo, Navaho
- poiritOccitan
- podre, malvado, cruelPortuguese
- putredRomanian
- гнилой, гадкийRussian
- fracicu, prudicuSardinian
- trȕo, gnjȉoSerbo-Croatian
- hnilý, zhnitýSlovak
- gnilSlovene
- prishur, kalburAlbanian
- ruttenSwedish
- చెడిపోయినTelugu
- bozuk, çürükTurkish
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