Synonyms for rotten
ˈrɒt nrot·ten

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1. 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, funky

   Antonyms:
   fresh, sound, good

2. 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, stinky

   Antonyms:
   sound, fresh, good

3. rottenadjective

   having decayed or disintegrated; usually implies foulness

   "dead and rotten in his grave"

   Synonyms:
   stinking, shitty, icky, stinky, decayed, rotted, crappy, lousy

   Antonyms:
   good, fresh, sound

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1. spoiledadjective

   suffering from decay

   Submitted by rinat on May 31, 2023  

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1. rottennoun

   Synonyms:
   putrid, corrupt, carious, putrefied, decayed, fetid, putrescent, foul

2. rottennoun

   Synonyms:
   defective, unsound

3. rottennoun

   Synonyms:
   treacherous, deceitful, untrustworthy

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1. rottenadjective

   Synonyms:
   decayed, putrid, putrescent, carious, corrupt, decomposed, putrefied, malodorous, fetid

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1. List of paraphrases for "rotten":

   lousy, crappy, sleazebag, crummy, clapped-out, crooked, decadent, corrupt, filthy, dirty, lame, shitty, scoundrels

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1. Jan Smuts:

   Nazism ... destroys the very soul of our civilization ... I have not taken the same grave view of Bolshevism, for it never was clear to me that Bolshevism, in spite of its brutalities and cruelties, really threatened the essentials of our ethical civilization. And after all it was a revolution of a semi-barbarous people against a rotten government and an effete church. Nazi-ism in highly cultured Germany is a very different affair.

2. Jose Luis Soriano:

   I like the fact that they're open to debate, transparent and want to change this rotten system.

3. Carlos Jr.:

   It makes you feel rotten inside that you can't grieve, you can't cry, you can't --.

4. Tom Robbins:

   When she was a small girl, Amanda hid a ticking clock in an old, rotten tree trunk. It drove woodpeckers crazy. Ignoring tasty bugs all around them, they just about beat their brains out trying to get at the clock. Years later, Amanda used the woodpecker experiment as a model for understanding capitalism, Communism, Christianity, and all other systems that traffic in future rewards rather than in present realities.

5. Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe:

   If aid is going to be given on the principle that we accept gay marriages, then let that aid stay where it is. It is rotten aid, filthy aid.