Meaning of ROTTEN
| Pronunciation: | | 'râtn
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- [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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| | Synonyms: | | bad, corrupt, crappy, decayed, decomposed, decomposing, icky, lousy, moldered, moldering, mouldered, mouldering, putrefied, putrescent, putrid, putrified, rotted, rotting, shitty, stinking, stinky, tainted, unsound |
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| | Definition: | |  Rotten
Nearly 20 years after the Sex Pistols` demise, Johnny Rotten offers his humorous oral history of the band, describing the punk scene in London during the late 1970s, and sharing his feelings about his late band mate Sid Vicious. more details ... |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Definition: | | Dreaming that something is rotten, suggests that you are wasting away your potential. You have failed to make use of the opportunities that have come your way. |
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