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rotten adjective [ ˈrɒt(ə)n ]

• suffering from decay.
• "rotten eggs"
Similar: decaying, decayed, rotting, bad, off, decomposed, decomposing, putrid, putrescent, spoiled, spoilt, tainted, perished, mouldy, mouldering, mildewy, sour, rancid, rank, festering, fetid, stinking, smelly, unfit for human consumption, addled, maggoty, worm-eaten, wormy, flyblown, disintegrating, crumbling, falling to pieces, corroding, carious, black, caried,
Opposite: fresh, sound,
• very bad.
• "she was a rotten cook"
Similar: bad, poor, dreadful, awful, terrible, frightful, atrocious, hopeless, inadequate, inferior, unsatisfactory, laughable, substandard, crummy, pathetic, useless, lousy, appalling, abysmal, dire, duff, chronic, poxy, rubbish, pants, a load of pants, wretched, horrible, unspeakable, damn, damned, blasted, blessed, flaming, precious, confounded, flipping, blinking, blooming, bloody, bleeding, effing, chuffing, goddam, plurry, bally, ruddy, deuced, chickenshit, fucking, frigging, sodding, fecking,
Opposite: good, accomplished,

rotten adverb

• to an extreme degree; very much.
• "your mother said that I spoiled you rotten"
Similar: very much, a lot, a great deal, really,
Origin: Middle English: from Old Norse rotinn .


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