- corrupt
- disgusting
- moldy
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- overripe
- putrid
- rancid
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- sour
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- stale
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- bad-smelling
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- fecal
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- base
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- bruised
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- deplorable
- disagreeable
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- dissatisfactory
- filthy
- impaired
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- injured
- low-grade
- mean
- poor
- punk
- regrettable
- rough
- scurrilous
- shaky
- sorry
- substandard
- unacceptable
- unfortunate
- unhappy
- unsatisfactory
- unsound
- vile
- wasted
- wicked
- withering
- wrong
On this page you’ll find 261 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to rotten, such as: corrupt, disgusting, moldy, noxious, overripe, and putrid.
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- fresh
- good
- kind
- moral
- new
- nice
- pleasant
- superior
- trustworthy
- uncorrupt
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- agreeable
- clean
- friendly
- good
- great
- happy
- magnificent
- moral
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- wonderful
- decent
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- new
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- superior
- trustworthy
- uncorrupt
- undecayed
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Nonetheless, Win at All Costs often feels less like an exposé than an attempt to fuse previously published reporting into a macro-narrative about how there’s something rotten in the state of Beaverton.
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Sounds rotten, but that’s their style; and you’ve been through the mill at home enough to know what it is to be knifed socially.
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Clodd tells us that one cubic inch of rotten stone contains 41 thousand million vegetable skeletons of diatoms.
GOD AND MY NEIGHBOURROBERT BLATCHFORD
That we should attack one week and the French another week is rotten tactically; but, practically, we have no option.
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WORDS RELATED TO ROTTEN
- abhorrent
- atrocious
- awful
- bad
- base
- beastly
- contemptible
- cursed
- despicable
- disgusting
- foul
- grim
- grody
- gross
- hairy
- hateful
- heinous
- hellish
- horrible
- horrid
- loathsome
- lousy
- nauseating
- obnoxious
- odious
- offensive
- repellent
- reprehensible
- repugnant
- repulsive
- revolting
- rotten
- sleazy
- stinking
- terrible
- vile
- wretched
- appalling
- awful
- bad
- beastly
- detestable
- disgusting
- dreadful
- execrable
- foul
- godawful
- grody
- gross
- horrible
- horrid
- horrifying
- icky
- loathsome
- noisome
- obscene
- repulsive
- rotten
- sickening
- terrible
- moldy
- off
- putrid
- rancid
- rotten
- sour
- spoiled
- moldy
- off
- putrid
- rancid
- rotten
- sour
- spoiled
- awful
- disagreeable
- disgusting
- foul
- gross
- mean
- nasty
- revolting
- rotten
- terrible
- unpleasant
- vile
- bad
- base
- bogus
- catchpenny
- cheesy
- common
- commonplace
- crappy
- cruddy
- dud
- flashy
- garbage
- garish
- glitzy
- junky
- lousy
- mangy
- mean
- mediocre
- meretricious
- no bargain
- no good
- ordinary
- paltry
- poor
- ratty
- raunchy
- rinky-dink
- rotten
- rubbishy
- scroungy
- second-rate
- shoddy
- sleazy
- small-time
- tatty
- tawdry
- terrible
- trashy
- trumpery
- two-bit
- valueless
- white elephant
- worthless
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icky, crappy, lousy, rotten, shitty, stinking, stinkyadjective
very bad
«a lousy play»; «it’s a stinking world»
Synonyms:
noisome, icky, lousy, malodorous, filthy, smelly, crappy, fetid, ill-smelling, malodourous, ill-scented, foetid, foul, unpleasant-smelling, stinky, decayed, dirty, rotted, gooey, stinking, shitty, foul-smelling, funkyAntonyms:
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decayed, rotten, rottedadjective
damaged by decay; hence unsound and useless
«rotten floor boards»; «rotted beams»; «a decayed foundation»
Synonyms:
stinking, shitty, icky, rotted, decayed, crappy, lousy, stinkyAntonyms:
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rottenadjective
having decayed or disintegrated; usually implies foulness
«dead and rotten in his grave»
Synonyms:
stinking, shitty, icky, stinky, decayed, rotted, crappy, lousyAntonyms:
good, fresh, sound
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rottennoun
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putrid, corrupt, carious, putrefied, decayed, fetid, putrescent, foul -
rottennoun
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rottennoun
Synonyms:
treacherous, deceitful, untrustworthy
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List of paraphrases for «rotten»:
lousy, crappy, sleazebag, crummy, clapped-out, crooked, decadent, corrupt, filthy, dirty, lame, shitty, scoundrels
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Andy Manar:
Our system today in the state is broken. It is rotten. It is not based on any level of equity.
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Sergiy Kyslytsva:
It’ sa fresh paint on the molding rotten structure of the assembly where the paint isn’t actually paint, but the blood of Ukrainian children, women and defenders, let’s spare the assembly from this shame. Let’s prove that the assembly is still a solid structure, and we are the United Nations that have been wise enough to avert imminent disaster.
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Joe Biden:
The difference between the two is apples and rotten oranges.
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Raymond Chandler:
He didn’t know the right people.
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Donald Trump:
It is clear to me that we can not prevent an Iranian nuclear bomb under the decaying and rotten structure of the current agreement, the Iran deal is defective at The Iran deal core. If we do nothing we know exactly what will happen.
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- فاسدArabic
- podritCatalan, Valencian
- shnilýCzech
- råddenDanish
- scheußlich, faul, verfaultGerman
- σάπιος, φαύλος, σαθρόςGreek
- putra, aĉaEsperanto
- putrefacto, maloSpanish
- پوسیدهPersian
- mädäntynyt, mädännäinen, mätäFinnish
- rotinFaroese
- mauvais, pourriFrench
- lofaIrish
- breun, lobhte, grodScottish Gaelic
- rohadtHungarian
- փտածArmenian
- busukIndonesian
- marcito, marcio, malvagioItalian
- 腐った, 腐朽Japanese
- 썩다Korean
- sapuvisLatvian
- manumanuā, piroMāori
- ပုပ်Burmese
- gemeen, rot, verrotDutch
- dláádNavajo, Navaho
- poiritOccitan
- cruel, podre, malvadoPortuguese
- putredRomanian
- гнилой, гадкийRussian
- fracicu, prudicuSardinian
- trȕo, gnjȉoSerbo-Croatian
- hnilý, zhnitýSlovak
- gnilSlovene
- kalbur, prishurAlbanian
- ruttenSwedish
- చెడిపోయినTelugu
- bozuk, çürükTurkish
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Similar words for rotten:
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abominable (adjective)
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all (adjective)
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atrocious (adjective)
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cheap (adjective)
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corrupt (adjective)
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crumbly (adjective)
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crummy (adjective)
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damaged (adjective)
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decayed, decaying (adjective)
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degenerate (adjective)
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deplorable (adjective)
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depraved (adjective)
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despicable, inferior, bad (adjective)
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detestable (adjective)
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dirty (adjective)
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disagreeable (adjective)
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diseased (adjective)
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disgusting (adjective)
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dishonest, immoral (adjective)
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disintegrated (adjective)
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dissatisfactory (adjective)
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dreadful (adjective)
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fetid (adjective)
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foul (adjective)
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foul-smelling (adjective)
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ignoble (adjective)
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ill (adjective)
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indigestible (adjective)
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inedible (adjective)
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infamous (adjective)
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insalubrious (adjective)
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laid-up (adjective)
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lamentable (adjective)
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lousy (adjective)
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malodorous (adjective)
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mean (adjective)
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moldy (adjective)
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musty (adjective)
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obnoxious (adjective)
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odorous (adjective)
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off (adjective)
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offensive (adjective)
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other relevant words (adjective)
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perverse (adjective)
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poor (adjective)
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rotting (adjective)
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schlocky (adjective)
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second-rate (adjective)
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shabby (adjective)
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sick (adjective)
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sickening (adjective)
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sour (adjective)
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spoiled (adjective)
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terrible (adjective)
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uninviting (adjective)
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unpleasant (adjective)
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unsalutary (adjective)
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unsanitary (adjective)
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unsatisfactory (adjective)
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unwholesome (adjective)
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vicious (adjective)
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weak (adjective)
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wicked (adjective)
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woeful (adjective)
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wrong (adjective)
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yucky (adjective)
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offensive (adverb)
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crappy (noun)
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decayed (noun)
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icky (noun)
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moldered (noun)
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mouldered (noun)
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mouldering (noun)
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shitty (noun)
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corrupt
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inedible
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malodorous
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rotting
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unhealthful
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wormy
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Hypernyms for rotten
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adj.
• abominable (adjective)
- beastlier,
- heinous,
- grodier,
- grodiest,
- beastliest,
- re prehensible,
- re-prehensible.
• all (adjective)
- rotten.
• atrocious (adjective)
- scandalous,
- monstrous,
- more godawful,
- most horrifying,
- most godawful,
- more horrifying.
• cheap (adjective)
- glitzy,
- cruddy,
- no bargain,
- second rate,
- catchpenny,
- two bit,
- scroungy,
- no good,
- junky,
- rinky-dink,
- rinkydink,
- second-rate,
- rubbishy,
- small time,
- tawdry,
- secondrate.
• corrupt (adjective)
- re probate,
- un-scrupulous,
- dis solute,
- most suborned,
- gone the dogs,
- most dishonored,
- dis honored,
- most profiteering,
- dis-solute,
- under handed,
- doubledealing,
- de-graded,
- more suborned,
- un-principled,
- on the take,
- more dishonored,
- most abased,
- in-constant,
- more exploiting,
- most bribable,
- more bribable,
- un-ethical,
- gone to dogs,
- more abased,
- under-handed,
- in constant,
- most exploiting,
- double-dealing,
- un trustworthy,
- dis-honored,
- un scrupulous,
- un principled,
- twofaced,
- on take,
- un-trustworthy,
- de graded,
- perfidious,
- fast loose,
- gone dogs,
- two faced,
- un ethical,
- more evil,
- re-probate,
- un-faithful,
- un faithful,
- more profiteering.
• crumbly (adjective)
- more pulverizable,
- more degenerated,
- most oxidized,
- most perishing,
- more corroded,
- more oxidized,
- most rusted,
- de generated,
- more perishing,
- more eroded,
- most rotted,
- dis integrated,
- de-generated,
- rotted,
- most corroded,
- more fragile,
- most disintegrated,
- most degenerated,
- more rusted,
- more deteriorating,
- fragile,
- most eroded,
- more disintegrated,
- more rotted,
- dis-integrated,
- softer,
- most deteriorating,
- most pulverizable.
• crummy (adjective)
- more sub par,
- more third rate,
- more subpar,
- thirdrate,
- most inferior,
- grottiest,
- more sub-par,
- most thirdrate,
- grottier,
- most third rate,
- more third-rate,
- more thirdrate,
- most third-rate,
- sub par,
- most sub-par,
- most sub par,
- third rate,
- most subpar.
• damaged (adjective)
- spoiled.
• decayed, decaying (adjective)
- decomposing,
- offensive,
- unsound,
- purulent,
- fecal,
- stale,
- bad-smelling,
- noisome,
- infected,
- rotting,
- corrupt,
- putrescent,
- smelling,
- corroded,
- decomposed,
- noxious,
- moldering,
- touched,
- Pustular,
- mephitic,
- feculent,
- Disintegrated,
- foul,
- Perished,
- crumbled,
- loud,
- putrified,
- stinking,
- putrid,
- polluted,
- festering,
- Disintegrating.
• degenerate (adjective)
- de cadent,
- more vitiated,
- more demeaned,
- de-cadent,
- most demeaned,
- de based,
- most flatitious,
- more flatitious,
- most vitiated,
- most overripe,
- de-generate,
- retro grade,
- de generate,
- most worsen,
- more worsen,
- retro-grade,
- de-based,
- more overripe,
- over ripe.
• deplorable (adjective)
- opprobrious.
• depraved (adjective)
- shameless,
- more vitiate,
- more dirty-minded,
- dirtyminded,
- most dirty minded,
- lascivious,
- most dirty-minded,
- more dirtyminded,
- most flagitous,
- most dirtyminded,
- more dirty minded,
- un natural,
- warped,
- most vitiate,
- more warped,
- un-natural,
- dirty minded,
- more flagitous,
- most warped.
• despicable, inferior, bad (adjective)
- dirty,
- displeasing,
- disappointing,
- unfortunate,
- inadequate,
- bum,
- unhappy,
- sorry,
- amiss,
- rough,
- unlucky,
- below par,
- scurrilous,
- substandard,
- punk,
- low-grade,
- unacceptable,
- regrettable.
• detestable (adjective)
- low-down,
- lowdown,
- hateable.
• dirty (adjective)
- unclean.
• disagreeable (adjective)
- unpalatable,
- painer,
- dragger.
• diseased (adjective)
- in firm.
• disgusting (adjective)
- most sleazeball,
- scuzziest,
- dis-gusting,
- scuzzier,
- more cloying,
- yecchiest,
- more surfeiting,
- nerdiest,
- more satiating,
- most satiating,
- more sleazeball,
- most surfeiting,
- nerdier,
- yecchier,
- dis gusting.
• dishonest, immoral (adjective)
- debauched,
- defiled,
- deceitful,
- untrustworthy,
- dishonorable,
- contaminated,
- venal,
- soiled,
- bent,
- impure,
- vitiated,
- Dirtied,
- mercenary,
- sullied,
- faithless,
- disloyal,
- treacherous,
- filthy.
• disintegrated (adjective)
- molten,
- Anatomized,
- Degenerated,
- shattered,
- broken,
- turned,
- putrefied,
- dissected,
- dissolved,
- dilapidated,
- gangrenous,
- mortified.
• dissatisfactory (adjective)
- lame,
- insufficient,
- not up to par,
- unsatisfying,
- not satisfying,
- unsuitable.
• dreadful (adjective)
- horrendous,
- most shuddersome,
- more shuddersome.
• fetid (adjective)
- stenchiest,
- stinkiest,
- stinky,
- Stenchy.
• foul (adjective)
- mucky,
- most sullied,
- more polluted,
- egregious,
- more pigpen,
- most pigpen,
- more sullied,
- most polluted,
- most contaminated,
- more contaminated.
• foul-smelling (adjective)
- malodorous.
• ignoble (adjective)
- more peasant,
- menial,
- scurviest,
- un washed,
- scurvier,
- un-washed,
- most peasant.
• ill (adjective)
- off feet,
- sick as dog,
- under weather,
- out sorts,
- ill,
- running temperature,
- off ones feet,
- got bug,
- more bummed,
- feeling terrible,
- most bummed,
- off one feet.
• indigestible (adjective)
- undercooked,
- uneatable.
• inedible (adjective)
- not fit to eat,
- yukky,
- unpleasant-tasting.
• infamous (adjective)
- more ill famed,
- most ill-famed,
- most illfamed,
- most caitiff,
- ill famed,
- most ill famed,
- more illfamed,
- in famous,
- in-famous,
- illfamed,
- more caitiff,
- more ill-famed.
• insalubrious (adjective)
- in-salubrious,
- in salubrious.
• laid-up (adjective)
- laidup.
• lamentable (adjective)
- more god-awful,
- most hurting,
- more hurting,
- most god-awful,
- un favorable,
- un-favorable,
- god awful,
- un-fortunate,
- more god awful,
- most god awful,
- un fortunate.
• lousy (adjective)
- unwelcome,
- slovenly.
• malodorous (adjective)
- de-composed,
- de composed,
- most stenchful,
- most decomposed,
- more stenchful,
- more decomposed.
• mean (adjective)
- liverish,
- low-down and dirty,
- lowdown and dirty,
- hardnosed,
- the lowest,
- low-down dirty,
- toucher,
- ornery.
• moldy (adjective)
- mildewy,
- Mildewed.
• musty (adjective)
- dried out,
- dried-out.
• obnoxious (adjective)
- more dislikable,
- in-sufferable,
- pain in neck,
- most dislikable,
- off color,
- dis likable,
- heelest,
- offcolor,
- pain neck,
- pain the neck,
- pillest,
- in sufferable,
- dis-likable.
• odorous (adjective)
- Savorous,
- olfactive,
- perfumy,
- Scentful,
- tumaceous,
- Perfumatory,
- miasmic,
- scent-laden,
- skunky,
- sweet-scented,
- odoriferant,
- honeyed,
- effluvious,
- whiffy,
- sweet-smelling,
- olfactory,
- odoriferous.
• off (adjective)
- dis heartening,
- most mortifying,
- more turned,
- more disheartening,
- most unrewarding,
- not up to snuff,
- not snuff,
- more unrewarding,
- not up snuff,
- not to snuff,
- more mortifying,
- un rewarding,
- dis-heartening,
- sub standard,
- most turned,
- un-rewarding,
- lowquality,
- most disheartening,
- sub-standard.
• offensive (adjective)
- ignominious,
- embarrassing.
• Other relevant words: (adjective)
- dreadful,
- on sick list,
- schlocky,
- odorous,
- self-willed,
- third-rate,
- grotty,
- degenerate,
- in a bad way,
- a wreck,
- vicious,
- fetid,
- lamentable,
- sick,
- poorly,
- dislikable,
- overripe,
- sickening,
- praetorian,
- anguished,
- head-strong,
- scuzzy,
- mean,
- hospitalized,
- stenchful,
- lousy,
- unhealthy,
- over-ripe,
- unsalutary,
- bribable,
- inedible,
- flagitous,
- for the birds,
- woeful,
- Piller,
- down with,
- shuddersome,
- wasting away,
- yecchy,
- unsatisfactory,
- unrespectable,
- sick as a dog,
- musty,
- profiteering,
- big mouth,
- abominable,
- insalubrious,
- perverse,
- second class,
- Heeler,
- revolting,
- Unnutritious,
- deplorable,
- terrible,
- depraved,
- feeling awful,
- flagitious,
- feeling rotten,
- Qualmish,
- not good enough,
- scummier,
- weak,
- wide open,
- not so hot,
- dirty-minded,
- unsanitary,
- obnoxious,
- unlikable,
- nerdy,
- hard time,
- Bummed,
- laid-up,
- poor,
- unhygienic,
- gone to the dogs,
- uncool,
- disgusting,
- second-best,
- sour,
- sleazeball,
- uninviting,
- god-awful,
- got the bug,
- racket up,
- Despisable,
- bad,
- ill-famed,
- Double dealing,
- nefarious,
- godawful,
- broken down,
- scurvy,
- ignoble,
- laid low,
- disagreeable,
- detestable,
- off,
- off one’s feet,
- grody,
- in poor health,
- atrocious,
- cheap,
- Pulverizable,
- wrong,
- dissatisfactory,
- unrewarding,
- tainted,
- low quality,
- septic,
- sub-par,
- flatitious.
• perverse (adjective)
- un reasonable,
- un manageable,
- un yielding,
- more self-willed,
- most selfwilled,
- most self-willed,
- more self willed,
- un-manageable,
- dis obedient,
- in-tractable,
- un-reasonable,
- dis-obedient,
- self willed,
- un-yielding,
- in tractable,
- most self willed.
• poor (adjective)
- subnormal,
- SUBPAR.,
- poorer,
- niggardly.
• rotting (adjective)
- de-composing,
- more disintegrating,
- de composing,
- more decomposing,
- most disintegrating,
- most decomposing,
- dis-integrating,
- dis integrating.
• schlocky (adjective)
- dis creditable,
- brokendown,
- more unrespectable,
- most unrespectable,
- dis-creditable,
- un respectable,
- un-respectable.
• second-rate (adjective)
- more second-best,
- more second best,
- most second-best,
- most secondbest,
- more secondbest,
- secondbest,
- secondclass.
• shabby (adjective)
- scummiest,
- un-kinder,
- un-kindest,
- un kindest,
- scummy,
- un-kind,
- un kinder,
- in-glorious,
- more despisable,
- in glorious,
- most despisable,
- un kind.
• sick (adjective)
- more hospitalized,
- in valid,
- most qualmish,
- more qualmish,
- most suffering,
- more declining,
- dis ordered,
- in bad way,
- more suffering,
- dis-ordered,
- most hospitalized,
- under medication,
- most declining,
- sickest,
- in-valid,
- in-curable,
- in curable.
• sickening (adjective)
- stomach-turning.
• sour (adjective)
- dis contented,
- most grudging,
- illnatured,
- more grudging,
- un-generous,
- un generous,
- ill natured,
- dis-contented.
• spoiled (adjective)
- most marred,
- more marred.
• terrible (adjective)
- more dreaded,
- in-convenient,
- most petrifying,
- more petrifying,
- more unnerving,
- inconvenient,
- aweinspiring,
- most dreaded,
- most unnerving,
- un-nerving,
- un nerving,
- in convenient,
- awe inspiring.
• uninviting (adjective)
- un appetizing,
- un appealing,
- un-inviting,
- un-appetizing,
- un-appealing,
- un inviting.
• unpleasant (adjective)
- un-likable,
- more unlikable,
- most unlikable,
- most hard-time,
- un-lovelier,
- hard-time,
- more uncool,
- un-pleasant,
- more hardtime,
- most hardtime,
- hardtime,
- more hard time,
- un lovelier,
- most hard time,
- un-cool,
- most uncool,
- un-lovely,
- un loveliest,
- un pleasant,
- un likable,
- un-loveliest,
- un cool,
- un-attractive,
- un lovely,
- more hard-time,
- un attractive.
• unsalutary (adjective)
- un-salutary,
- un salutary.
• unsanitary (adjective)
- most unhygienic,
- more unhygienic,
- un sanitary,
- un-sanitary,
- un-hygienic,
- un hygienic.
• unsatisfactory (adjective)
- dis-concerting,
- more vexing,
- dis-quieting,
- more disconcerting,
- most disconcerting,
- un satisfactory,
- dis concerting,
- un-satisfactory,
- dis quieting,
- for birds,
- most vexing.
• unwholesome (adjective)
- more unnutritious,
- un wholesome,
- more septic,
- un nutritious,
- un-wholesome,
- un-nutritious,
- most unnutritious,
- most septic.
• vicious (adjective)
- in-subordinate,
- un-tamed,
- in decent,
- untamed,
- un tamed,
- in-decent,
- de moralized,
- de-moralized,
- in subordinate.
• weak (adjective)
- Impuissant,
- out of gas,
- weakest,
- forceless.
• wicked (adjective)
- unrighteous.
• woeful (adjective)
- more racked,
- most racked,
- most tortured,
- most anguished,
- heartsick,
- most grieving,
- most agonized,
- more agonized,
- more anguished,
- Racked,
- more grieving,
- more tortured.
• wrong (adjective)
- not precise,
- more off target,
- un-fitting,
- un-truest,
- sophistical,
- ungrounded,
- counter factual,
- mis-figured,
- more unfitted,
- in-decorous,
- most offtarget,
- un grounded,
- in-apter,
- dis proportionate,
- mis-construed,
- un fitting,
- un conventional,
- unfitted,
- un becoming,
- most misconstrued,
- mis handled,
- most miscalculated,
- mis calculated,
- most unfitting,
- off-target,
- un truer,
- more fluffed,
- mis construed,
- mis-handled,
- on wrong track,
- out commission,
- un seemly,
- un-fitted,
- most misfigured,
- un seemlier,
- more misconstrued,
- dis-proportionate,
- out line,
- un-truer,
- more off-target,
- out of line,
- un-fit,
- most goofed,
- in decorous,
- fluffed,
- most off target,
- more offtarget,
- un-conventional,
- un seemliest,
- most fluffed,
- out order,
- un fitted,
- in-felicitous,
- in accurate,
- not working,
- in-congruous,
- unfitting,
- more unfitting,
- counter-factual,
- more sophistical,
- in apter,
- un-seemliest,
- on the wrong track,
- mis placed,
- more ungrounded,
- more misfigured,
- more miscalculated,
- illadvised,
- un truest,
- un-becoming,
- off balance,
- offtarget,
- mis-guided,
- mis figured,
- in correct,
- un-grounded,
- most ungrounded,
- in congruous,
- mis taken,
- in error,
- un-seemlier.
• yucky (adjective)
- skanky,
- yucky.
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adv
• offensive (adverb)
- beastly.
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n.
-
•
- shaky,
- gross,
- wasted,
- sordid,
- withering,
- perverted,
- crumbly,
- deviant,
- sound,
- defective,
- tottering,
- amoral,
- strong,
- Crumbling,
- injured,
- impaired,
- diseased.
-
•
- hard,
- bleak,
- unpleasant,
- unattractive,
- unappealing,
- objectionable.
-
•
- darn,
- what’s the big idea?,
- for heaven’s sake/sakes,
- brother,
- for crying out loud,
- give me strength,
- for pity’s sake,
- what’s that supposed to mean?,
- give me a break,
- moldy.
-
•
- better,
- thrive,
- taste,
- flyblown,
- bruised.
-
•
- nasty.
-
•
- base.
• crappy (noun)
- crappy.
• decayed (noun)
- decayed.
• icky (noun)
- icky.
• moldered (noun)
- moldered.
• mouldered (noun)
- mouldered.
• mouldering (noun)
- mouldering.
• Other relevant words: (noun)
- rank.
• shitty (noun)
- shitty.
-
v.
• Other relevant words: (verb)
- characteristic.
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Other synonyms:
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•
- crummy,
- wicked,
- cheesy,
- rancid,
- wormy,
- worm-eaten,
- gamy,
- fusty.
-
•
- abhorrent,
- contemptible,
- loathsome,
- villainous,
- odious,
- verminous,
- miscreant,
- trashy,
- dishonest,
- repugnant,
- shoddy,
- despicable,
- frowzy,
- vile.
-
•
- shabby,
- wretched,
- flaky,
- antipathetic,
- sleazy,
- paltry,
- bloody,
- buggy,
- infamous.
-
•
- miserable.
-
•
- low.
• corrupt
- good-for-nothing,
- crooked,
- unscrupulous,
- unethical,
- immoral,
- hateful.
• decayed
- rusty.
• inedible
- indigestible.
• malodorous
- ill-smelling.
• rotting
- Decaying.
• unhealthful
- unwholesome.
• wormy
- maggoty.
How to use «Rotten» in context?
«rotten» is a word that encompasses a wide range of meanings. Generally speaking, it can refer to something that is ruined, busted, or simply bad. In terms of food, «rotten» can describe anything from a piece of fruit that has gone bad to a piece of meat that is starting to rot.
When it comes to English language, «rotten» is remarkably versatile.
Paraphrases for Rotten:
Paraphrases are highlighted according to their relevancy:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
bad.
-
Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
appalling, boring, broken, cheesy, corrupted, crooked, crummy, decayed, deplorable, disgraceful, disgusting, dreadful, horrible, lamentable, nasty, spoiled, tainted, wicked, worthless, wretched, zero, shitty, crappy, shit.
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Interjection
SUCKS.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
corrupt, decadent, foul, miserable, poor, ugly.
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Noun, singular or mass
rot.
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Interjection
scoundrels.
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Adjective
Homophones for Rotten:
- radon, ratan, ready money, roadman, raetam, redden, ruritanian, red wine, rhythm, retinene, rattan, retain, retama, RETINA, red man, radian, rotenone, rhodymenia, rotation, rewrite man, routine, rhodium, radome, redeem, ruritania, radiation, retem, retinue, red onion, ration, ruthenium, rodin, radium.