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766 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ ɹˈɒtən], [ ɹˈɒtən], [ ɹ_ˈɒ_t_ə_n]

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Opposite words for rotten:

decayed, decaying
despicable, inferior, bad
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Homophones for rotten

Rotten definition

Synonyms for Rotten:

adj.
•abominable (adjective)
- beastlier,
- heinous,
- grodier,
- grodiest,
- beastliest,
- re prehensible,
- re-prehensible.
•all (adjective)
- rotten.
•atrocious (adjective)
- scandalous,
- monstrous,
- more godawful,
- most horrifying,
- most godawful,
- more horrifying.
•cheap (adjective)
- glitzy,
- cruddy,
- no bargain,
- second rate,
- catchpenny,
- two bit,
- scroungy,
- no good,
- junky,
- rinky-dink,
- rinkydink,
- second-rate,
- rubbishy,
- small time,
- tawdry,
- secondrate.
•corrupt (adjective)
- re probate,
- un-scrupulous,
- dis solute,
- most suborned,
- gone the dogs,
- most dishonored,
- dis honored,
- most profiteering,
- dis-solute,
- under handed,
- doubledealing,
- de-graded,
- more suborned,
- un-principled,
- on the take,
- more dishonored,
- most abased,
- in-constant,
- more exploiting,
- most bribable,
- more bribable,
- un-ethical,
- gone to dogs,
- more abased,
- under-handed,
- in constant,
- most exploiting,
- double-dealing,
- un trustworthy,
- dis-honored,
- un scrupulous,
- un principled,
- twofaced,
- on take,
- un-trustworthy,
- de graded,
- perfidious,
- fast loose,
- gone dogs,
- two faced,
- un ethical,
- more evil,
- re-probate,
- un-faithful,
- un faithful,
- more profiteering.
•crumbly (adjective)
- more pulverizable,
- more degenerated,
- most oxidized,
- most perishing,
- more corroded,
- more oxidized,
- most rusted,
- de generated,
- more perishing,
- more eroded,
- most rotted,
- dis integrated,
- de-generated,
- rotted,
- most corroded,
- more fragile,
- most disintegrated,
- most degenerated,
- more rusted,
- more deteriorating,
- fragile,
- most eroded,
- more disintegrated,
- more rotted,
- dis-integrated,
- softer,
- most deteriorating,
- most pulverizable.
•crummy (adjective)
- more sub par,
- more third rate,
- more subpar,
- thirdrate,
- most inferior,
- grottiest,
- more sub-par,
- most thirdrate,
- grottier,
- most third rate,
- more third-rate,
- more thirdrate,
- most third-rate,
- sub par,
- most sub-par,
- most sub par,
- third rate,
- most subpar.
•damaged (adjective)
- spoiled.
•decayed, decaying (adjective)
- decomposing,
- offensive,
- unsound,
- purulent,
- fecal,
- stale,
- bad-smelling,
- noisome,
- infected,
- rotting,
- corrupt,
- putrescent,
- smelling,
- corroded,
- decomposed,
- noxious,
- moldering,
- touched,
- Pustular,
- mephitic,
- feculent,
- Disintegrated,
- foul,
- Perished,
- crumbled,
- loud,
- putrified,
- stinking,
- putrid,
- polluted,
- festering,
- Disintegrating.
•degenerate (adjective)
- de cadent,
- more vitiated,
- more demeaned,
- de-cadent,
- most demeaned,
- de based,
- most flatitious,
- more flatitious,
- most vitiated,
- most overripe,
- de-generate,
- retro grade,
- de generate,
- most worsen,
- more worsen,
- retro-grade,
- de-based,
- more overripe,
- over ripe.
•deplorable (adjective)
- opprobrious.
•depraved (adjective)
- shameless,
- more vitiate,
- more dirty-minded,
- dirtyminded,
- most dirty minded,
- lascivious,
- most dirty-minded,
- more dirtyminded,
- most flagitous,
- most dirtyminded,
- more dirty minded,
- un natural,
- warped,
- most vitiate,
- more warped,
- un-natural,
- dirty minded,
- more flagitous,
- most warped.
•despicable, inferior, bad (adjective)
- dirty,
- displeasing,
- disappointing,
- unfortunate,
- inadequate,
- bum,
- unhappy,
- sorry,
- amiss,
- rough,
- unlucky,
- below par,
- scurrilous,
- substandard,
- punk,
- low-grade,
- unacceptable,
- regrettable.
•detestable (adjective)
- low-down,
- lowdown,
- hateable.
•dirty (adjective)
- unclean.
•disagreeable (adjective)
- unpalatable,
- painer,
- dragger.
•diseased (adjective)
- in firm.
•disgusting (adjective)
- most sleazeball,
- scuzziest,
- dis-gusting,
- scuzzier,
- more cloying,
- yecchiest,
- more surfeiting,
- nerdiest,
- more satiating,
- most satiating,
- more sleazeball,
- most surfeiting,
- nerdier,
- yecchier,
- dis gusting.
•dishonest, immoral (adjective)
- debauched,
- defiled,
- deceitful,
- untrustworthy,
- dishonorable,
- contaminated,
- venal,
- soiled,
- bent,
- impure,
- vitiated,
- Dirtied,
- mercenary,
- sullied,
- faithless,
- disloyal,
- treacherous,
- filthy.
•disintegrated (adjective)
- molten,
- Anatomized,
- Degenerated,
- shattered,
- broken,
- turned,
- putrefied,
- dissected,
- dissolved,
- dilapidated,
- gangrenous,
- mortified.
•dissatisfactory (adjective)
- lame,
- insufficient,
- not up to par,
- unsatisfying,
- not satisfying,
- unsuitable.
•dreadful (adjective)
•fetid (adjective)
- stenchiest,
- stinkiest,
- stinky,
- Stenchy.
•foul (adjective)
- mucky,
- most sullied,
- more polluted,
- egregious,
- more pigpen,
- most pigpen,
- more sullied,
- most polluted,
- most contaminated,
- more contaminated.
•foul-smelling (adjective)
- malodorous.
•ignoble (adjective)
- more peasant,
- menial,
- scurviest,
- un washed,
- scurvier,
- un-washed,
- most peasant.
•ill (adjective)
- off feet,
- sick as dog,
- under weather,
- out sorts,
- ill,
- running temperature,
- off ones feet,
- got bug,
- more bummed,
- feeling terrible,
- most bummed,
- off one feet.
•indigestible (adjective)
- undercooked,
- uneatable.
•inedible (adjective)
- not fit to eat,
- yukky,
- unpleasant-tasting.
•infamous (adjective)
- more ill famed,
- most ill-famed,
- most illfamed,
- most caitiff,
- ill famed,
- most ill famed,
- more illfamed,
- in famous,
- in-famous,
- illfamed,
- more caitiff,
- more ill-famed.
•insalubrious (adjective)
- in-salubrious,
- in salubrious.
•laid-up (adjective)
- laidup.
•lamentable (adjective)
- more god-awful,
- most hurting,
- more hurting,
- most god-awful,
- un favorable,
- un-favorable,
- god awful,
- un-fortunate,
- more god awful,
- most god awful,
- un fortunate.
•lousy (adjective)
- unwelcome,
- slovenly.
•malodorous (adjective)
- de-composed,
- de composed,
- most stenchful,
- most decomposed,
- more stenchful,
- more decomposed.
•mean (adjective)
- liverish,
- low-down and dirty,
- lowdown and dirty,
- hardnosed,
- the lowest,
- low-down dirty,
- toucher,
- ornery.
•moldy (adjective)
- mildewy,
- Mildewed.
•musty (adjective)
- dried out,
- dried-out.
•obnoxious (adjective)
- more dislikable,
- in-sufferable,
- pain in neck,
- most dislikable,
- off color,
- dis likable,
- heelest,
- offcolor,
- pain neck,
- pain the neck,
- pillest,
- in sufferable,
- dis-likable.
•odorous (adjective)
- Savorous,
- olfactive,
- perfumy,
- Scentful,
- tumaceous,
- Perfumatory,
- miasmic,
- scent-laden,
- skunky,
- sweet-scented,
- odoriferant,
- honeyed,
- effluvious,
- whiffy,
- sweet-smelling,
- olfactory,
- odoriferous.
•off (adjective)
- dis heartening,
- most mortifying,
- more turned,
- more disheartening,
- most unrewarding,
- not up to snuff,
- not snuff,
- more unrewarding,
- not up snuff,
- not to snuff,
- more mortifying,
- un rewarding,
- dis-heartening,
- sub standard,
- most turned,
- un-rewarding,
- lowquality,
- most disheartening,
- sub-standard.
•offensive (adjective)
- ignominious,
- embarrassing.
•perverse (adjective)
- un reasonable,
- un manageable,
- un yielding,
- more self-willed,
- most selfwilled,
- most self-willed,
- more self willed,
- un-manageable,
- dis obedient,
- in-tractable,
- un-reasonable,
- dis-obedient,
- self willed,
- un-yielding,
- in tractable,
- most self willed.
•poor (adjective)
- subnormal,
- SUBPAR.,
- poorer,
- niggardly.
•rotting (adjective)
- de-composing,
- more disintegrating,
- de composing,
- more decomposing,
- most disintegrating,
- most decomposing,
- dis-integrating,
- dis integrating.
•schlocky (adjective)
- dis creditable,
- brokendown,
- more unrespectable,
- most unrespectable,
- dis-creditable,
- un respectable,
- un-respectable.
•second-rate (adjective)
- more second-best,
- more second best,
- most second-best,
- most secondbest,
- more secondbest,
- secondbest,
- secondclass.
•shabby (adjective)
- scummiest,
- un-kinder,
- un-kindest,
- un kindest,
- scummy,
- un-kind,
- un kinder,
- in-glorious,
- more despisable,
- in glorious,
- most despisable,
- un kind.
•sick (adjective)
- more hospitalized,
- in valid,
- most qualmish,
- more qualmish,
- most suffering,
- more declining,
- dis ordered,
- in bad way,
- more suffering,
- dis-ordered,
- most hospitalized,
- under medication,
- most declining,
- sickest,
- in-valid,
- in-curable,
- in curable.
•sickening (adjective)
- stomach-turning.
•sour (adjective)
- dis contented,
- most grudging,
- illnatured,
- more grudging,
- un-generous,
- un generous,
- ill natured,
- dis-contented.
•spoiled (adjective)
- most marred,
- more marred.
•terrible (adjective)
- more dreaded,
- in-convenient,
- most petrifying,
- more petrifying,
- more unnerving,
- inconvenient,
- aweinspiring,
- most dreaded,
- most unnerving,
- un-nerving,
- un nerving,
- in convenient,
- awe inspiring.
•uninviting (adjective)
- un appetizing,
- un appealing,
- un-inviting,
- un-appetizing,
- un-appealing,
- un inviting.
•unpleasant (adjective)
- un-likable,
- more unlikable,
- most unlikable,
- most hard-time,
- un-lovelier,
- hard-time,
- more uncool,
- un-pleasant,
- more hardtime,
- most hardtime,
- hardtime,
- more hard time,
- un lovelier,
- most hard time,
- un-cool,
- most uncool,
- un-lovely,
- un loveliest,
- un pleasant,
- un likable,
- un-loveliest,
- un cool,
- un-attractive,
- un lovely,
- more hard-time,
- un attractive.
•unsalutary (adjective)
- un-salutary,
- un salutary.
•unsanitary (adjective)
- most unhygienic,
- more unhygienic,
- un sanitary,
- un-sanitary,
- un-hygienic,
- un hygienic.
•unsatisfactory (adjective)
- dis-concerting,
- more vexing,
- dis-quieting,
- more disconcerting,
- most disconcerting,
- un satisfactory,
- dis concerting,
- un-satisfactory,
- dis quieting,
- for birds,
- most vexing.
•unwholesome (adjective)
- more unnutritious,
- un wholesome,
- more septic,
- un nutritious,
- un-wholesome,
- un-nutritious,
- most unnutritious,
- most septic.
•vicious (adjective)
- in-subordinate,
- un-tamed,
- in decent,
- untamed,
- un tamed,
- in-decent,
- de moralized,
- de-moralized,
- in subordinate.
•weak (adjective)
- Impuissant,
- out of gas,
- weakest,
- forceless.
•wicked (adjective)
- unrighteous.
•woeful (adjective)
- more racked,
- most racked,
- most tortured,
- most anguished,
- heartsick,
- most grieving,
- most agonized,
- more agonized,
- more anguished,
- Racked,
- more grieving,
- more tortured.
•wrong (adjective)
- not precise,
- more off target,
- un-fitting,
- un-truest,
- sophistical,
- ungrounded,
- counter factual,
- mis-figured,
- more unfitted,
- in-decorous,
- most offtarget,
- un grounded,
- in-apter,
- dis proportionate,
- mis-construed,
- un fitting,
- un conventional,
- unfitted,
- un becoming,
- most misconstrued,
- mis handled,
- most miscalculated,
- mis calculated,
- most unfitting,
- off-target,
- un truer,
- more fluffed,
- mis construed,
- mis-handled,
- on wrong track,
- out commission,
- un seemly,
- un-fitted,
- most misfigured,
- un seemlier,
- more misconstrued,
- dis-proportionate,
- out line,
- un-truer,
- more off-target,
- out of line,
- un-fit,
- most goofed,
- in decorous,
- fluffed,
- most off target,
- more offtarget,
- un-conventional,
- un seemliest,
- most fluffed,
- out order,
- un fitted,
- in-felicitous,
- in accurate,
- not working,
- in-congruous,
- unfitting,
- more unfitting,
- counter-factual,
- more sophistical,
- in apter,
- un-seemliest,
- on the wrong track,
- mis placed,
- more ungrounded,
- more misfigured,
- more miscalculated,
- illadvised,
- un truest,
- un-becoming,
- off balance,
- offtarget,
- mis-guided,
- mis figured,
- in correct,
- un-grounded,
- most ungrounded,
- in congruous,
- mis taken,
- in error,
- un-seemlier.
•yucky (adjective)
- skanky,
- yucky.
adv
•offensive (adverb)
- beastly.
n.
- shaky,
- gross,
- wasted,
- sordid,
- withering,
- perverted,
- crumbly,
- deviant,
- sound,
- defective,
- tottering,
- amoral,
- strong,
- Crumbling,
- injured,
- impaired,
- diseased.
- hard,
- bleak,
- unpleasant,
- unattractive,
- unappealing,
- objectionable.
- darn,
- what's the big idea?,
- for heaven's sake/sakes,
- brother,
- for crying out loud,
- give me strength,
- for pity's sake,
- what's that supposed to mean?,
- give me a break,
- moldy.
- better,
- thrive,
- taste,
- flyblown,
- bruised.
- nasty.
- base.
•crappy (noun)
- crappy.
•decayed (noun)
- decayed.
•icky (noun)
- icky.
•moldered (noun)
- moldered.
•mouldered (noun)
- mouldered.
•mouldering (noun)
- mouldering.
•shitty (noun)
- shitty.
Other synonyms:
- crummy,
- wicked,
- cheesy,
- rancid,
- wormy,
- worm-eaten,
- gamy,
- fusty.
- abhorrent,
- contemptible,
- loathsome,
- villainous,
- odious,
- verminous,
- miscreant,
- trashy,
- dishonest,
- repugnant,
- shoddy,
- despicable,
- frowzy,
- vile.
- shabby,
- wretched,
- flaky,
- antipathetic,
- sleazy,
- paltry,
- bloody,
- buggy,
- infamous.
- miserable.
- low.
•corrupt
- good-for-nothing,
- crooked,
- unscrupulous,
- unethical,
- immoral,
- hateful.
•decayed
- rusty.
•inedible
- indigestible.
•malodorous
- ill-smelling.
•rotting
- Decaying.
•unhealthful
- unwholesome.
•wormy
- maggoty.

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Equivalence
- Adjective
  bad.
Independent
- Adjective
  crappy, disgusting, decayed, corrupted, crooked, broken, crummy, tainted, wretched, shitty, cheesy, spoiled, worthless, appalling, dreadful, horrible, boring, nasty, disgraceful, lamentable, wicked, zero, shit, deplorable.
- Interjection
  SUCKS.
Other Related
- Adjective
  corrupt, miserable, foul, ugly, decadent, poor.
- Noun, singular or mass
  rot.
- Interjection
  scoundrels.

Antonyms for Rotten:

adj.
- decayed, decaying
  good, honest, helpful, trustworthy, kind, fresh, wholesome, pure, decent, perfumed, Uncorrupt, Undecayed, pleasant, superior, new, moral, sweet, nice.
- despicable, inferior, bad
  clean, magnificent, agreeable, happy, wonderful, pleasing, great, friendly.
- Other antonyms:
  first class, legal, gratifying, delectable, grateful, lily-white, squeaky-clean, commendable, undefiled, uncontaminated, chaste, endorsed, respected, delicious, refined, untouched, guiltless, correct, felicitous, seemly, approved, polished, exceptional, worthy, permitted, jolly, immaculate, venerable, satisfactory, high, adequate, dreamy, high-grade, perfect, spotless, untainted, acceptable, elevated, tasteful, law-abiding, palatable, undecomposed, elegant, pristine, congenial, right, proper, handcrafted, unerring, handsome, reputable, uncorrupted, unpolluted, sanctioned, kindly, esteemed, unobjectionable, creditable, upright, satisfying, sublime, inoffensive, amiable, incorruptible, upstanding, scrupulous, sufficient, encouraged, exemplary, licensed, unspoiled, lofty, cheery, high-minded, virtuous, delightful, white, legitimate, innocent, decorous, authorized, irreproachable, preserved, pleasurable, charming, premium, permissible, blameless, welcome, supported.

Homophones for Rotten:

radon, ratan, ready money, roadman, raetam, redden, ruritanian, red wine, rhythm, retinene, rattan, retain, retama, RETINA, red man, radian, rotenone, rhodymenia, rotation, rewrite man, routine, rhodium, radome, redeem, ruritania, radiation, retem, retinue, red onion, ration, ruthenium, rodin, radium.

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