rotten
[adjective]
Synonyms:
- decaying, bad, corrupt, crumbling, decomposing, festering, mouldy, perished, putrescent, rank, sour, stinking
- corrupt, crooked (informal), dishonest, dishonourable, immoral, perfidious
- despicable, base, contemptible, dirty, mean, nasty
- inferior, crummy (slang), duff (Brit. informal), inadequate, lousy (slang), poor, substandard, unsatisfactory

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Related Words: foul, tainted, touched, sour

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

I. rot‧ten¹ /ˈrɒtn $ ˈrɑːtn/ adjective
[Date: 1200-1300; Language: Old Norse; Origin: rotinn]

1. badly decayed and no longer good to use:
the smell of rotten eggs
Some of the wood was completely rotten.
The apples went rotten very quickly.

2. informal very bad Synonym : terrible:
What rotten luck!
a rotten idea
The service was rotten.
He’s a rotten driver.

3. informal if someone is rotten, they are unpleasant, unkind, or dishonest:
Why are you being so rotten?
a rotten little brat

4. feel rotten
a) to feel ill
b) to feel unhappy and guilty about something:
I felt rotten about lying to him.

5. [only before noun] spoken used when you are angry:
I don’t want your rotten money!

6. rotten to the core extremely dishonest:
The whole government is rotten to the core.

7. a rotten apple one bad person who has a bad effect on all the others in a group
—rottenness noun [uncountable]

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

II. rotten² adverb informal

1. spoil somebody rotten to treat someone too well or too kindly, especially a child, so that they think they should always have what they want:
He was the favorite, and his mother spoiled him rotten.

2. fancy somebody rotten British English to be extremely attracted to someone in a sexual way – used humorously

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲