Word Meanings - ROTTEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having rotted; putrid; decayed; as, a rotten apple; rotten meat. Hence: Offensive to the smell; fetid; disgusting. You common cry or curs! whose breath I hate As reek of the rotten fens. Shak. Not firm or trusty; unsound; defective; treacherous;

Additional info about word: ROTTEN

Having rotted; putrid; decayed; as, a rotten apple; rotten meat. Hence: Offensive to the smell; fetid; disgusting. You common cry or curs! whose breath I hate As reek of the rotten fens. Shak. 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 , 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ROTTEN)

• Corrupt
• Defiled
• polluted
• vitiated
• decayed
• depraved
• putrid
• rotten
• infected
• tainted
• profligate
• contaminated
• Decayed
• Rotten
• corrupt
• unsound
• decomposed
• declined
• faded
• sunk
• unprosperous
• impoverished
• wasted away
• Putrid
• Stinking
• offensive
• foul
• mean
• base
• worthless

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ROTTEN)

• Mend
• repair
• purify
• cleanse
• correct
• ameliorate
• better

Related words: (words related to ROTTEN)

• FADAISE
  A vapid or meaningless remark; a commonplace; nonsense.
• WASTING
  Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a wasting disease; a wasting fortune. Wasting palsy , progressive muscular atrophy. See under Progressive.
• DECAY
  To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste away; to decline; to fail; to become weak, corrupt, or disintegrated; to rot; to perish; as, a tree decays; fortunes decay;
• DECLINATION
  The angular distance of any object from the celestial equator, either northward or southward. (more info) 1. The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head. 2. The act or state of falling off or declining
• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• PURIFY
  1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air. 2. Hence, in figurative uses: To free from guilt
• CORRECTLY
  In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error.
• WAST
  The second person singular of the verb be, in the indicative mood, imperfect tense; -- now used only in solemn or poetical style. See Was.
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• VITIATE
  1. To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render defective; to injure the substance or qualities of; to impair; to contaminate; to spoil; as, exaggeration vitiates a style of writing; sewer gas vitiates the air. A will vitiated and growth out
• STINKWEED
  Stramonium. See Jamestown weed, and Datura.
• CORRUPTIONIST
  One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith.
• INFECTIOUSLY
  In an infectious manner. Shak.
• CORRUPTIBLE
  1. Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay. "Our corruptible bodies." Hooker. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold. 1 Pet. i. 18. 2. Capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation.
• DECOMPOSE
  To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay.
• STINKARD
  The teledu of the East Indies. It emits a disagreeable odor. (more info) 1. A mean, stinking, paltry fellow. B. Jonson.
• WASTEBOARD
  See 3
• DEFILADE
  To raise, as a rampart, so as to shelter interior works commanded from some higher point.
• STINKPOT
  The musk turtle, or musk tortoise. See under Musk. (more info) 1. An earthen jar charged with powder, grenades, and other materials of an offensive and suffocating smell, -- sometimes used in boarding an enemy's vessel. 2. A vessel in
• OFFENSIVE
  1. Giving offense; causing displeasure or resentment; displeasing; annoying; as, offensive words. 2. Giving pain or unpleasant sensations; disagreeable; revolting; noxious; as, an offensive smell; offensive sounds. "Offensive to the stomach."
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• INDECOMPOSABLENESS
  Incapableness of decomposition; stability; permanence; durability.
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• REINFECT
  To infect again.
• DISINFECT
  To free from infectious or contagious matter; to destroy putrefaction; to purify; to make innocuous. When the infectious matter and the infectious matter and the odoriferous matter are one . . . then to deodorize is to disinfect. Ure.