rotten

English

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Etymology

From 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”). More at rot.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɒtən

Adjective

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

1. 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.

2. In a state of decay.

   The floors were damaged and the walls were rotten.

   His mouth stank and his teeth were rotten.

3. Cruel, mean or immoral.

   That man is a rotten father.

   This rotten policy will create more injustice in this country.

4. 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.

Usage notes

• 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.

Translations

decayed, gone bad

• Albanian: kalbur, prishur
• Armenian: փտած (hy) (p'taç)
• Aromanian: putrid (rup)
• Burmese: ပုပ် (my) (pok)
• Catalan: podrit (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 腐爛 (cmn), 腐烂 (cmn) (fǔlàn), 腐朽 (cmn) (fǔxiǔ)

• Crimean Tatar: çürük
• Czech: shnilý (cs)
• Dalmatian: muas
• Danish: rådden (da)
• Dutch: rot, verrot
• Esperanto: putra (eo)
• Faroese: rotin (fo)
• Finnish: mädäntynyt (fi), mätä (fi)
• French: pourri (fr)
• Friulian: fraid
• German: faul (de), verfault (de)
• Greek: σάπιος (el) (sápios), σαθρός (el) (sathrós) m
• Hungarian: rohadt (hu)
• Indonesian: busuk (id)

• Italian: marcito (it), marcio (it)
• Japanese: 腐った (ja) (kusatta), 腐朽した (ja) (fukyū-shita)
• Korean: 썩다 (ko) (sseokda)
• Latvian: sapuvis (lv)
• Navajo: dláád
• Occitan: poirit (oc)
• Portuguese: podre (pt)
• Rapa Nui: piro
• Romanian: putred (ro)
• Russian: гнилой (ru) (gnilój)
• Sardinian: fracicu (sc), prudicu (sc)
• Scottish Gaelic: grod (gd), lobhte (gd)
• Serbo-Croatian: gnjȉo (sh), trȕo (sh)
• Slovak: hnilý, zhnitý
• Slovene: gnil (sl)
• Spanish: estropeado (of meat), carcomido (of wood), podrido (smell, of eggs)
• Swedish: rutten (sv)
• Telugu: చెడిపోయిన (te) (cedipoyina)
• Turkish: çürük (tr), bozuk (tr)
• Warlpiri: puka

mean

• Dutch: gemeen (nl)
• Esperanto: aĉa (eo)
• Finnish: mädännäinen (fi)
• French: mauvais (fr)
• German: scheußlich (de)
• Greek: φαύλος (el) (fávlos) m

• Italian: malvagio (it)
• Portuguese: cruel (pt), malvado (pt)
• Russian: гадкий (ru) (gádkij)
• Scottish Gaelic: grod (gd), breun (gd)
• Spanish: malo (es), putrefacto (es)
• Swedish: rutten (sv)

Adverb

rotten (comparative more rotten, superlative most rotten)

1. To an extreme degree.

   That kid is spoilt rotten.

   The girls fancy him something rotten.

Anagrams

• Trento

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Dutch

Etymology 1

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

Verb

rotten

1. to rot, to go bad, to decay

Conjugation

Conjugation of rotten (weak)

infinitive	rotten
	present tense	past tense
1st person singular	rot	rotte
2nd person singular	rot	rotte
3rd person singular	rot	rotte
plural	rotten	rotten
subjunctive sing.1	rotte	rotte
subjunctive plur.1	rotten	rotten
imperative sing.	rot
imperative plur.1	rot
participles	rottend	(hebben) gerot
1) Archaic.

Derived terms

• doorrotten
• verrotten
• wegrotten

Noun

rotten

1. plural form of rot