ROTTEN meaning: Decayed, spoiled, or decomposed organic matter

We found 31 dictionaries that define the word rotten:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

rotten: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
rotten: Merriam-Webster
rotten: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
rotten: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
rotten: Collins English Dictionary
rotten: Vocabulary.com
Rotten, rotten: Wordnik
rotten: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
rotten: Wiktionary
rotten: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
rotten: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
rotten: Infoplease Dictionary
Rotten, rotten: Dictionary.com
rotten: Online Etymology Dictionary
rotten: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Rotten (TV series), Rotten: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Rotten: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
rotten: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
rotten: Rhymezone
rotten: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
rotten: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
rotten: FreeDictionary.org
rotten: Mnemonic Dictionary
rotten: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)

rotten: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

rotten: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

rotten: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

rotten, rotten: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ adjective:  Of perishable items, overridden with bacteria and other infectious agents.
▸ adjective:  In a state of decay.
▸ adjective:  Cruel, mean or immoral.
▸ adjective:  Bad or terrible.
▸ adjective:  Of stone or rock, crumbling or friable; in a loose or disintegrated state.
▸ adjective:  (UK, Ireland, Australia, slang) Very drunk, intoxicated.
▸ adverb:  To an extreme degree.

Similar:

putrescent, putrid, decayed, rotting, mouldering, tainted, stinking, lousy, icky, corrupt, more...

Opposite:

fresh, new, clean, pure

Types:

stinky, moldy, foul, putrid, rancid, decayed, more...

Phrases:

rotten eggs, rotten boroughs, Rotten Apples, rotten apple, rotten egg, more...

Adjectives:

goodly, old, little, dirty, whole, bloody, leetle, spoiled, plain, dead, damn

Colors:

brown, dark green, olive, mustard yellow, gray, more...