rotten

See also: Rotten

English

Middle English roten, from Old Norse rotinn (“decayed, rotten”), past participle of an unrecorded verb related to Old Norse rotna (“to rot”) and Old English rotian (“to rot”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *rutōną (“to rot”). More at rot.

rotten (comparative rottener or more rotten, superlative rottenest or most rotten)

Of perishable items, overridden with bacteria and other infectious agents.
If you leave a bin unattended for a few weeks, the rubbish inside will turn rotten.
In a state of decay.
The floors were damaged and the walls were rotten.

His mouth stank and his teeth were rotten.
Cruel, mean or immoral.
That man is a rotten father.

This rotten policy will create more injustice in this country.
Bad or terrible.
Why is the weather always rotten in this city?

It was a rotten idea to take the boat out today.

She has the flu and feels rotten.

Nouns to which “rotten” is often applied: wood, food, egg, meat, fruit, tomato, apple, banana, milk, vegetable, stuff, tooth, smell, person, kid, bastard, scoundrel, weather.

Terms derived from rotten

decayed, gone bad

Albanian: kalbur (sq), prishur (sq)
Armenian: փտած (pʿtac)
Aromanian: putrid
Bashkir: серек (serek)
Basque: please add this translation if you can
Burmese: ပုပ် (my) (pup)
Catalan: podrit (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 腐爛 (zh), 腐烂 (zh) (fǔlàn), 腐朽 (zh) (fǔxiǔ)

Min Dong: 生腐 (Sang pu)
Crimean Tatar: çürük
Czech: shnilý
Dalmatian: muas
Danish: rådden
Dutch: rot (nl), verrot (nl)
Esperanto: putra
Faroese: rotin
Finnish: mädäntynyt (fi), mätä (fi)
French: pourri (fr)
Friulian: frait, fraid
Galician: podre
German: faul (de), verfault (de)
Greek: σάπιος (el) (sápios), σαθρός (el) m (sathrós)
Hungarian: rohadt (hu)
Indonesian: busuk (id)
Irish: lofa
Italian: marcito (it), marcio (it)
Japanese: 腐った (kusatta), 腐朽した (ja) (fukyū-shita)
Khmer: ស្អុយ (km) (s’oy), រលួយ (km) (rɔluəy), រអៀច (km) (rɔ’iəc)

mean

rotten (comparative more rotten, superlative most rotten)

To an extreme degree.
That kid is spoilt rotten.

The girls fancy him something rotten.

From Middle Dutch rotten, reformed from earlier roten, from Old Dutch *roton, from Proto-Germanic *rutāną.

rotten

rotten

rotten m, f

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