meaning of rotten
1. Having rotted; putrid; decayed; as, a rotten apple; rotten meat.
2. Offensive to the smell; fetid; disgusting.
3. Not firm or trusty; unsound; defective; treacherous; unsafe; as, a rotten plank, bone, stone.
4. having rotted or disintegrated; usually implies foulness; "dead and rotten in his
">grave"
Related Words
rotten | rotten borough | rottenly | rottenness | rottenstone |
