What does rotten mean?
What does rotten mean?
decayed
(rɒtən ) adjective. If food, wood, or another substance is rotten, it has decayed and can no longer be used. The smell outside this building is overwhelming – like rotten eggs.
What is a synonym for rotten?
decaying, decayed, rotting, bad, off, decomposed, decomposing, putrid, putrescent, spoiled, spoilt, tainted, perished, mouldy, mouldering, mildewy, sour, rancid, rank, festering, fetid, stinking, smelly, unfit for human consumption. addled. maggoty, worm-eaten, wormy, flyblown. fresh.
How do you use the word rotten?
He is a willing horse but he always seems to get the rotten jobs.
- The fish is rotten; you must not eat it.
- The smell of the rotten meat was enough!
- Police corruption is not just a few rotten apples.
- The fruit is starting to go rotten.
- Some of the wood was completely rotten.
- The pear is rotten to the core.
What is the verb of rotten?
Verb. rotten. To rot, to go bad, to decay.
What type of word is rotten?
Rotten is an adjective – Word Type.
How would you describe something rotting?
Use the adjective rotten to describe something that is decaying or decayed. If you are like most people, you occasionally have to throw out rotten food — sometimes, it’s so nasty you can’t even tell what the food was in its original form! The adjective rotten also describes something that is very poor in quality.
What does rotten to the core mean?
very bad or dishonest
Definition of rotten to the core of a person. : very bad or dishonest.
Is it rotten or rotted?
IE, infinitive / present tense: “The wood is starting to rot”, past-perfect “the wood has rotten”, simple-past “the wood is rotted”. Oddly the Wiktionary omits “rotten” entirely from the usage of “rot”, as does the Oxford dictionary, “rot”.
What kind of adjective is rotten?
Poor thing, she must be having a rotten time just now. be rotten to someone: They were really rotten to him!…rotten Definitions and Synonyms
| adjective | rotten |
|---|---|
| comparative | rottener |
| superlative | rottenest |
What are things that are rotten?
Of course, it’s not pleasant to call these foods rotten, so we refer to them in different ways instead.
- Cheese. Making cheese comes down to your ability to control rot.
- Stinkheads. Another native Alaskan delicacy is what’s known as stinkheads.
- Sauerkraut.
- Aged Beef.
- Kimchi.
- Miso.
- Hákarl.
- Tempeh.
What do you call a horrible person?
What is another word for bad person?
| bad apple | bad egg |
|---|---|
| monster | reprobate |
| rogue | rotter |
| scoundrel | villain |
| wretch | wrongdoer |