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rotten
adjective
1 rotten
Very bad.
synonyms: crappy, icky, lousy, shitty, stinking, stinky.
Roget 649:
hurtful,
harmful,
scathful†,
baneful,
baleful;
injurious,
deleterious,
detrimental,
noxious,
pernicious,
mischievous,
full of mischief,
mischief-making,
malefic,
malignant,
nocuous,
noisome;
prejudicial;
disserviceable†,
disadvantageous;
wide-wasting.
unlucky,
sinister;
obnoxious;
untoward,
disastrous.
oppressive,
burdensome,
onerous;
malign
etc.
(malevolent)
907.
corrupting
etc.
(corrupt)
etc.
659;
virulent,
venomous,
envenomed,
corrosive;
poisonous
etc.
(morbific)
657†;
deadly
etc.
(killing)
361;
destructive
etc.
(destroying)
162;
inauspicious
etc.
859.
bad,
ill,
arrant,
as bad as bad can be,
dreadful;
horrid,
horrible;
dire;
rank,
peccant,
foul,
fulsome;
rotten,
rotten at the core.
vile,
base,
villainous;
mean
etc.
(paltry)
643;
injured
&c.;
deteriorated
etc.
659;
unsatisfactory,
exceptionable indifferent;
below par
etc.
(imperfect)
651;
illcontrived,
ill-conditioned;
wretched,
sad,
grievous,
deplorable,
lamentable;
pitiful,
pitiable,
woeful
etc.
(painful)
830.
evil,
wrong;
depraved
etc.
945;
shocking;
reprehensible
etc.
(disapprove)
932.
hateful,
hateful as a toad;
abominable,
detestable,
execrable,
cursed,
accursed,
confounded;
damned,
damnable;
infernal;
diabolic
etc.
(malevolent)
907.
unadvisable
etc.
(inexpedient)
647;
unprofitable
etc.
(useless)
645;
incompetent
etc.
(unskillful)
699;
irremediable
etc.
(hopeless)
859.
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Polish: gówniany
2 rotten
Damaged by decay; hence unsound and useless:
— Rotten floor boards.
synonyms: decayed, rotted.
Roget 659:
unimproved
etc.
(improve)
etc.
658;
deteriorated
etc.
v.;
altered,
altered for the worse;
injured
etc.
v.;
sprung;
withering,
spoiling
etc.
v.;
on the wane,
on the decline;
tabid†;
degenerate;
marescent†;
worse;
the worse for,
all the worse for;
out of repair,
out of tune;
imperfect
etc.
651;
the worse for wear;
battered;
weathered,
weather-beaten;
stale,
passe,
shaken,
dilapidated,
frayed,
faded,
wilted,
shabby,
secondhand,
threadbare;
worn,
worn to a thread,
worn to a shadow,
worn to the stump,
worn to rags;
reduced,
reduced to a skeleton;
far gone;
tacky [U.S.].
decayed
etc.
v.;
moth-eaten,
worm-eaten;
mildewed,
rusty,
moldy,
spotted,
seedy,
time-worn,
moss-grown;
discolored;
effete,
wasted,
crumbling,
moldering,
rotten,
cankered,
blighted,
tainted;
depraved
etc.
(vicious)
945;
decrepid†,
decrepit;
broke,
busted,
broken,
out of commission,
hors de combat [Fr.],
out of action,
broken down;
done,
done for,
done up;
worn out,
used up,
finished;
beyond saving,
fit for the dust hole,
fit for the wastepaper basket,
past work
etc.
(useless)
645.
at a low ebb,
in a bad way,
on one's last legs;
undermined,
deciduous;
nodding to its fall
etc.
(destruction)
162;
tottering
etc.
(dangerous)
665;
past cure
etc.
(hopeless)
859;
fatigued
etc.
688;
retrograde
etc.
(retrogressive)
283;
deleterious
etc.
649.
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Roget 653:
dirty,
filthy,
grimy;
unclean,
impure;
soiled
etc.
v.;
not to be handled with kid gloves;
dusty,
snuffy†,
smutty,
sooty,
smoky;
thick,
turbid,
dreggy;
slimy;
mussy [U.S.].
slovenly,
untidy,
messy,
uncleanly.
[of people]
unkempt,
sluttish,
dowdy,
draggle-tailed;
uncombed.
unscoured†,
unswept†,
unwiped†,
unwashed,
unstrained,
unpurified†;
squalid;
lutose†,
slammocky†,
slummocky†,
sozzly†.
nasty,
coarse,
foul,
offensive,
abominable,
beastly,
reeky,
reechy†;
fetid
etc.
401.
[of rotting living matter]
decayed,
moldy,
musty,
mildewed,
rusty,
moth-eaten,
mucid†,
rancid,
weak,
bad,
gone bad,
etercoral†,
lentiginous†,
touched,
fusty,
effete,
reasty†,
rotten,
corrupt,
tainted,
high,
flyblown,
maggoty;
putrid,
putrefactive,
putrescent,
putrefied;
saprogenic,
saprogenous†;
purulent,
carious,
peccant;
fecal,
feculent;
stercoraceous†,
excrementitious†;
scurfy,
scurvy,
impetiginous†;
gory,
bloody;
rotting
etc.
v.;
rotten as a pear,
rotten as cheese.
crapulous
etc.
(intemperate)
954†;
gross
etc.
(impure in mind)
961;
fimetarious†,
fimicolous†.
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Roget 655:
diseased;
ailing
etc.
v.;
ill,
ill of;
taken ill,
seized with;
indisposed,
unwell,
sick,
squeamish,
poorly,
seedy;
affected with illness,
afflicted with illness;
laid up,
confined,
bedridden,
invalided,
in hospital,
on the sick list;
out of health,
out of sorts;
under the weather [U.S.];
valetudinary†.
unsound,
unhealthy;
sickly,
morbid,
morbose†,
healthless†,
infirm,
chlorotic [Med.],
unbraced†.
drooping,
flagging,
lame,
crippled,
halting.
morbid,
tainted,
vitiated,
peccant,
contaminated,
poisoned,
tabid†,
mangy,
leprous,
cankered;
rotten,
rotten to the core,
rotten at the core;
withered,
palsied,
paralytic;
dyspeptic;
luetic†,
pneumonic,
pulmonic [Med.],
phthisic†,
rachitic;
syntectic†,
syntectical†;
tabetic†,
varicose.
touched in the wind,
broken-winded,
spavined,
gasping;
hors de combat
etc.
(useless)
645 [Fr.].
weakly,
weakened
etc.
(weak)
160;
decrepit;
decayed
etc.
(deteriorated)
659;
incurable
etc.
(hopeless)
859;
in declining health;
cranky;
in a bad way,
in danger,
prostrate;
moribund
etc.
(death)
360.
morbific
etc.
657†;
epidemic,
endemic;
zymotic†.
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Roget 160:
weak,
feeble,
debile†;
impotent
etc.
158;
relaxed,
unnerved,
etc.
v.;
sapless,
strengthless†,
powerless;
weakly,
unstrung,
flaccid,
adynamic†,
asthenic†;
nervous.
soft,
effeminate,
feminate†,
womanly.
frail,
fragile,
shattery†;
flimsy,
unsubstantial,
insubstantial,
gimcrack,
gingerbread;
rickety,
creaky,
creaking,
cranky;
craichy†;
drooping,
tottering
etc.
v..
broken,
lame,
withered,
shattered,
shaken,
crazy,
shaky;
palsied
etc.
158;
decrepit.
languid,
poor,
infirm;
faint,
faintish†;
sickly
etc.
(disease)
655;
dull,
slack,
evanid†,
spent,
short-winded,
effete;
weather-beaten;
decayed,
rotten,
worn,
seedy,
languishing,
wasted,
washy,
laid low,
pulled down,
the worse for wear.
unstrengthened
etc.
159†,
unsupported,
unaided,
unassisted;
aidless†,
defenseless
etc.
158;
cantilevered
(support)
215.
on its last legs;
weak as a child,
weak as a baby,
weak as a chicken,
weak as a cat,
weak as a rat;
weak as water,
weak as water gruel,
weak as gingerbread,
weak as milk and water;
colorless
etc.
429.
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3 rotten
Having decayed or disintegrated; usually implies foulness.
Polish: zgniły
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