rotten
Meaning of rotten
adjective
- 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.
- In a state of decay.
His mouth stank and his teeth were rotten.
- Cruel, mean or immoral.
That man is a rotten father.
- Bad or terrible.
It was a rotten idea to take the boat out today.
- To an extreme degree.
That kid is spoilt rotten.
Information about rotten
- The plural form of rotten is: rottens.
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Hyphenation of rotten
rot-ten
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- rotten is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
rotten synonyms
Meaning icky:
icky, crappy, lousy, shitty, stinking, stinky
Meaning decayed:
Translation of rotten
- Portuguese: podre
- German: schlecht, ungenießbar, verdorben, verrottet, verwest, verfault, vermodert, faulig
- French: pourri, décomposé, faisandé, gâté, avarié, putréfié, putréfait
- Spanish: estropeado, podrido, carcomido, descompuesto, arruinado
- Italian: guasto, marcio, avariato
Anagrams of rotten
tentor, terton, torten, Trento
Words that rhyme with rotten
Mountbatten, Patten, batten, fatten, flatten, gatten, gratten, latten, overfatten, overflatten, patten, platten, ratten, unbatten, unfatten, whatten, Sletten, Vanetten, Whetten, fertiletten, fretten, letten, sedopretten, Britten, Whitten, Witten, backbitten, bitten, britten, cowritten, crossbitten, fitten, fleabitten, forebitten, forewritten, frostbitten, ghostwritten, gritten, handwritten, heartsmitten, inwritten, kitten, litten, miswritten, mitten, moonlitten, outwritten, overbitten, oversmitten, overwritten
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