rottener

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.

   Synonyms:

   gone bad, maggoted, spoiled

2. In a state of decay.
   • The floors were damaged and the walls were rotten.

   Synonyms:

   blighted, forworn, putrid, cankered, decayed, dotterel, moldering, putrefacient, putrefactive, putrescent

3. Cruel, mean or immoral.
   • That man is a rotten father.

   Synonyms:

   fell, malicious, ruthless, barbarous, bowelless, brutal, compassionless, cruel, flagitious, demonic

4. Bad or terrible.
   • Why is the weather always rotten in this city?

   Synonyms:

   awful, foul, horrible, abysmal, atrocious, bad, chronic, coarse, corny, crap

5. Of stone or rock, crumbling or friable; in a loose or disintegrated state.
   • The quartz specimens were sometimes blue, hard-looking stone, or rotten quartz largely impregnated with iron, in both cases carrying bright glittering nodules of gold.1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 215

   Synonyms:

   crumbly, crumblesome, frickle

6. (Australia, Ireland, UK, slang) Very drunk, intoxicated.

   Synonyms:

   munted, para, peloothered, Adrian Quist, adrip, aled up, all mops and brooms, arseholed, a sheet in the wind, a sheet in the wind's eye

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