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Rotten Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Rotten? [adj] having rotted or disintegrated; usually implies foulness; "dead and rotten in his grave" [adj] (informal) very bad; "a lousy play"; "it's a stinking world" [adj] damaged by decay; hence unsound and useless; "rotten floor boards"; "rotted beams"; "a decayed foundation" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Rotten: bad \| corrupt \| crappy \| decayed \| decomposed \| decomposing \| icky \| lousy \| moldered \| moldering \| mouldered \| mouldering \| putrefied \| putrescent \| putrid \| putrified \| rotted \| rotting \| shitty \| stinking \| stinky \| tainted \| unsound Related Terms \| Find terms related to Rotten: See Also \| Rotten In Webster's Dictionary \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. You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate As reek of the rotten fens. --Shak. (b) Not firm or trusty; unsound; defective; treacherous; unsafe; as, a rotten plank, bone, stone. ``The deepness of the rotten way.'' --Knolles. {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. Syn: Putrefied; decayed; carious; defective; unsound; corrupt; deceitful; treacherous. -- {Rot"tenly}, adv. -- {Rot"tenness}, n.

Rotten Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Rotten?

[adj] having rotted or disintegrated; usually implies foulness; "dead and rotten in his grave"
[adj] (informal) very bad; "a lousy play"; "it's a stinking world"
[adj] damaged by decay; hence unsound and useless; "rotten floor boards"; "rotted beams"; "a decayed foundation"

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Rotten In Webster's Dictionary

\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.

          You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate As reek
          of the rotten fens.                  --Shak.
(b) Not firm or trusty; unsound; defective; treacherous;
    unsafe; as, a rotten plank, bone, stone. ``The deepness
    of the rotten way.'' --Knolles.

{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.

Syn: Putrefied; decayed; carious; defective; unsound;
     corrupt; deceitful; treacherous. -- {Rot"ten*ly}, adv.
     -- {Rot"ten*ness}, n.

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