Another word for rotten
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Adjective
Smelling of mildew or decay
- A relative position in a society.
- An official position or grade:
- A relative position or degree of value in a graded group.
- Having the disagreeable odor or taste of decomposing oils or fats; rank.
- Repugnant; nasty:
- Decomposed and foul-smelling; rotten:
- Proceeding from, relating to, or exhibiting putrefaction:
- Morally rotten; corrupt:
- Stale or moldy in odor or taste.
- Hackneyed or trite; dull.
- Out of date; antiquated.
- Covered with or containing mold:
- Musty or stale, as from age or decay.
- Smelling of mildew or decay; musty.
- Old-fashioned; antique.
- Unkempt; slovenly:
- Having an unpleasant smell; musty.
See also:Impaired because of decay
- Decomposed and foul-smelling; rotten:
- Proceeding from, relating to, or exhibiting putrefaction:
- Morally rotten; corrupt:
- Not achieving an adequate standard; poor:
- Immoral or evil.
- Vulgar or obscene:
Utterly reprehensible in nature or behavior
- Being or behaving like a villain:
- Appropriate to or characteristic of a villain:
- Highly unpleasant or annoying:
- Being in a state of ill health; sick.
- Characterized by or symptomatic of ill health:
- Causing or conducive to poor health; unwholesome:
- Contrary to what is right or good; wicked or depraved:
- Characterized by or resulting from willful opposition or resistance to what is right, expected, or reasonable:
- Willfully opposing or resisting what is right, expected, or reasonable:
- One who behaves badly, often by breaking rules of conduct or the law.
- One who does not believe in a certain religion; an infidel or heretic.
- Characterized by extremely brutal or cruel crimes; vicious.
- Infamous; scandalous:
- Morally corrupt; perverted.
- Having declined, as in function or nature, from a former or original state:
- Morally corrupt or given to vice.
- Relating to two or more quantum states that share the same quantum numbers:
- Marked by immorality and perversion; depraved.
- Venal or dishonest:
- Containing errors or alterations, especially ones that prevent proper understanding or use:
So objectionable as to elicit despisal or deserve condemnation
- In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable:
- Characterized by or attended with misery or woe:
- Of a poor or mean character; dismal:
- Morally depraved; ignoble or wicked:
- Disgusting; repulsive:
- Unpleasant or objectionable:
- Showing signs of wear and tear; threadbare or worn-out:
- Dilapidated or deteriorated in condition, especially through neglect; seedy:
- Wearing threadbare clothing.
- Arousing disgust or aversion; offensive or repulsive:
- Contradictory; inconsistent.
- Arousing or deserving hatred or strong dislike.
- Extremely unpleasant; repulsive:
- Very annoying or objectionable; offensive or odious:
- Exposed or subject to harm, injury, or evil:
- Deserving of or liable to censure.
- Infamous by way of being extremely wicked.
- Disgusting or repellent:
- Unpleasantly cold or wet:
- Dirty; filthy.
- To be used to convey; denote:
- To act as a symbol of; signify or represent:
- To intend to convey or indicate:
- Having little relative height; not high or tall:
- Rising only slightly above surrounding surfaces:
- Near to the ground or the horizon:
- Infested with lice.
- Extremely contemptible; nasty:
- Sick or unwell:
- Causing loathing; abhorrent.
- Having an exceedingly bad reputation; notorious:
- Causing or deserving severe public condemnation; heinous:
- Convicted of a crime, such as treason or felony, that carries a severe punishment. No longer in technical use.
- Offensive to the senses; revolting:
- Having a bad odor or taste:
- Rotten or putrid:
- Covered or smeared with filth; disgustingly dirty.
- Obscene or offensive:
- Vile; nasty:
- Arousing disgust; repugnant.
- Inspiring or deserving abhorrence or scorn.
- Deserving of contempt or scorn; vile.
- Deserving of contempt; despicable.
- Contemptuous.
- Having or showing a strong aversion or repugnance:
- Opposed in nature or character; antagonistic:
- Causing a feeling of antipathy; repugnant:
- Unequivocally detestable; loathsome:
- Thoroughly unpleasant or disagreeable:
- Disgusting, loathsome, or repellent.
- Feeling repugnance or loathing.
See also:Of decidedly inferior quality
- Miserable or wretched:
- Shabby or cheap:
- Containing or resembling cheese.
- Of poor quality; shoddy:
- Vulgarly pretentious or sentimental:
- Resembling or containing trash; cheap or worthless:
- In very poor taste or of very poor quality:
- Shabby, dirty, and vulgar; tawdry:
- Dishonest or corrupt; disreputable:
- Made of low-quality materials; cheap or shoddy.
- Made of or containing inferior material.
- Of poor quality or craft.
- Rundown; shabby.
- Having insufficient wealth to meet the necessities or comforts of life or to live in a manner considered acceptable in a society.
- Relating to or characterized by poverty:
- Deficient or lacking in a specified resource or quality:
- Lacking in importance or worth.
- Very small or inadequate in amount; negligible:
- Marked by meanness or lack of generosity; contemptible:
- Very uncomfortable or unhappy; wretched.
- Causing or accompanied by great discomfort or distress:
- Mean or shameful; contemptible:
- Infested with lice.
- Extremely contemptible; nasty:
- Sick or unwell:
- Relatively low in cost; inexpensive or comparatively inexpensive.
- Charging low prices:
- Obtainable at a low rate of interest. Used especially of money.
- The lowest or bottom part:
- The part of a plant or animal organ that is nearest to its point of attachment.
- The point of attachment of such an organ.
See also:
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Another word for rotten
Modifier
Having rotted
- Harmful to living things; injurious to health:
- Harmful to the mind or morals; corrupting:
- of or caused by mephitis
- bad-smelling
- poisonous; noxious
- Having an offensive odor.
- Present participle of smell.
- Used in adjectival compounds.
- The act by which something is smelled.
- Offensive to the point of arousing disgust; foul:
- Harmful or dangerous:
- Having lost freshness, effervescence, or palatability:
- Lacking originality or spontaneity:
- Ineffective or uninspired, usually from being out of practice or from having done the same thing for too long.
- simple past tense and past participle of disintegrate
- That has undergone disintegration
- simple past tense and past participle of crumble
- corrupted or filled with imperfections.
- simple past tense and past participle of taint
- Decomposed and foul-smelling; rotten:
- Proceeding from, relating to, or exhibiting putrefaction:
- Morally rotten; corrupt:
- Too ripe.
- Marked by decay or decline.
- Causing loathing; abhorrent.
- simple past tense and past participle of infect
- referring to something that has received an infection
- contaminated, specif. with harmful chemicals, waste material, etc.
- intoxicated; drunk
- Marked by immorality and perversion; depraved.
- Venal or dishonest:
- Containing errors or alterations, especially ones that prevent proper understanding or use:
- Offensive to the senses; revolting:
- Having a bad odor or taste:
- Rotten or putrid:
- A relative position in a society.
- An official position or grade:
- A relative position or degree of value in a graded group.
- Of, relating to, or consisting of pustules.
- Containing, discharging, or causing the production of pus:
- Full of foul or impure matter; fecal.
- Having a taste characteristic of that produced by acids; sharp, tart, or tangy.
- Made acid or rancid by fermentation.
- Having the characteristics of fermentation or rancidity; tasting or smelling of decay.
- Having the disagreeable odor or taste of decomposing oils or fats; rank.
- Repugnant; nasty:
- Arousing disgust; repugnant.
- Causing anger, displeasure, or resentment:
- Disagreeable to the senses:
- Making a physical or military attack:
- Having decayed.
- simple past tense and past participle of decay
- simple past tense and past participle of decompose
- simple past tense and past participle of putrify
- Becoming putrid; putrefying.
- Of or relating to putrefaction.
- Present participle of decay.
- Present participle of putrify.
- Present participle of rot.
- The process by which something rots.
- Material that has rotted.
- Not achieving an adequate standard; poor:
- Immoral or evil.
- Vulgar or obscene:
Not sound
- Tending to overwhelm or destroy; devastating:
- Not profitably used or maintained:
- Needless or superfluous:
- Deteriorated; ravaged:
- simple past tense and past participle of deteriorate
- Trembling or quivering; tremulous:
- Lacking soundness or sturdiness, as of construction:
- Not to be depended on; precarious:
- simple past tense and past participle of injure
- simple past tense and past participle of bruise
- Diminished, damaged, or weakened:
- Functioning poorly or incompetently:
- Having a physical or mental disability:
- Affected with disease.
- Unsound or disordered.
- Having a defect; faulty:
- Marked by subnormal structure, function, intelligence, or behavior:
- Lacking one or more of the inflected forms normal for a particular category of word, as the verb may in English.
- Not dependably strong or solid.
- Not physically or mentally healthy.
- Not true or logically valid; fallacious:
Corrupt
- A person of little worth or usefulness.
- Having little worth; useless.
- the true, pertinent facts; esp., secret or inside information
- mean; contemptible
- depressed; blue
- Morally depraved; ignoble or wicked:
- Disgusting; repulsive:
- Unpleasant or objectionable:
- Contrary to established moral principles.
- Not in accordance with the moral standards customarily followed in a business or professional relationship. See also conflict of interest and Model Rules of Professional Conduct. Not in accordance with the moral standards customarily followed in a business or professional relationship. See also conflict of interest and Model Rules of Professional Conduct.
- Having or showing no regard for what is right or honorable; devoid of scruples.
- Having or marked by bends, curves, or angles.
- At an irregular or improper angle; askew:
- Dishonest or unscrupulous; fraudulent.
- A disease caused by deficiency of vitamin C, characterized by spongy and bleeding gums, bleeding under the skin, and extreme weakness.
- Mean; contemptible.
- Disgusting or repellent:
- Unpleasantly cold or wet:
- Dirty; filthy.
- To be used to convey; denote:
- To act as a symbol of; signify or represent:
- To intend to convey or indicate:
- Inspiring or deserving abhorrence or scorn.
- Deserving of contempt or scorn; vile.
- Eliciting or deserving hatred.
- Feeling or showing hatred:
- Very unpleasant or unappealing:
- Deserving of contempt; despicable.
- Contemptuous.
- Having little relative height; not high or tall:
- Rising only slightly above surrounding surfaces:
- Near to the ground or the horizon:
- The lowest or bottom part:
- The part of a plant or animal organ that is nearest to its point of attachment.
- The point of attachment of such an organ.
- simple past tense and past participle of vitiate
- Disposed to lie, cheat, defraud, or deceive.
- Resulting from or marked by a lack of honesty.
Antonyms:*Very bad
- Infested with lice.
- Extremely contemptible; nasty:
- Sick or unwell:
- Not to one's liking; unpleasant or offensive.
- Having a quarrelsome, bad-tempered manner.
- Not pleasing; disagreeable.
- Not satisfactory; inadequate.
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