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I'm often accused of saying some pretty rotten things about my mother-in-law. But quite honestly, she's only got one major fault - it's called breathing.
Les Dawson

Meaning of "rotten" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ROTTEN

From Old Norse rottin; related to Old English rotian to rot1.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF ROTTEN

rotten  [ˈrɒtən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ROTTEN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Rotten can act as an adjective and an adverb.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WHAT DOES ROTTEN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Rotten

Things that are related to the word rotten: ▪ Aus-Rotten - political hardcore punk group ▪ Biodegradation- the process of rotting ▪ Calabash Nebula - known as the Rotten Egg Nebula ▪ Rotten borough - a borough of a ridiculously small electorate ▪ Dirty Rotten Imbeciles - thrash/hardcore punk band ▪ Dirty Rotten Scoundrels - 1988 comedy film directed by Frank Oz ▪ Johnny Rotten - the lead singer of the Sex Pistols ▪ Rotten Apples, a greatest hits compilation by the Smashing Pumpkins ▪ Rottentomatoes.com - website devoted to reviews and news of movies and video games ▪ Rottenrow - street in Glasgow ▪ The Rottentrolls - 1990s British children's television programme ▪ The Rotters' Club - novel by Jonathan Coe ▪ Rotten.com - a United States-hosted shock site People ▪ Brian Knighton a.k.a. Axl Rotten - an American professional wrestler ▪ John Williams a.k.a. Ian Rotten - an American professional wrestler Places ▪ Rotten, a local name of the river Rhone...

Definition of rotten in the English dictionary

The first definition of rotten in the dictionary is affected with rot; decomposing, decaying, or putrid. Other definition of rotten is breaking up, esp through age or hard use; disintegrating. Rotten is also morally despicable or corrupt.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ROTTEN


begotten
bɪˈɡɒtən
cotton
ˈkɒtən
forgotten
fəˈɡɒtən
gotten
ˈɡɒtən
guncotton
ˈɡʌnˌkɒtən
long-forgotten
ˌlɒŋfəˈɡɒtən
melicotton
ˌmɛlɪˈkɒtən
misbegotten
ˌmɪsbɪˈɡɒtən
misgotten
ˌmɪsˈɡɒtən
never-to-be-forgotten
ˌnevətəbɪfəˈɡɒtən
nitrocotton
ˈnaɪtrəʊˈkɒtən
polycotton
ˈpɒlɪkɒtən
rottan
ˈrɒtən
shotten
ˈʃɒtən
unbegotten
ˌʌnbɪˈɡɒtən
ungotten
ʌnˈɡɒtən
unrotten
ʌnˈrɒtən
whaten
ˈwɒtən
Wotton
ˈwɒtən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ROTTEN

rotoscope
rototill
Rototiller
rotovate
Rotovator
rotproof
rottan
rotte
rotted
rotten apple
rotten borough
rottenly
rottenness
rottenstone
rotter
Rotterdam
rotting
Rottweiler
rotula

WORDS THAT END LIKE ROTTEN

batten
bitten
Britten
flatten
half-forgotten
handwritten
have gotten
ill-gotten
kitten
mitten
only-begotten
patten
ratten
rewritten
sitten
smitten
unforgotten
unwritten
well-written
written

Synonyms and antonyms of rotten in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «ROTTEN»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «rotten» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of rotten

Translation of «rotten» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ROTTEN

Find out the translation of rotten to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of rotten from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «rotten» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

腐烂的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

podrido
570 millions of speakers

English

rotten
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सड़ा हुआ
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

عَفِن
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

гнилой
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

podre
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পচা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

pourri
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Busuk
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

verfault
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

腐った
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

썩은
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Rotten
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bị thối rữa
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அழுகிய
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कुजलेला
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

çürük
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

marcio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zgniły
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

зіпсований
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

putred
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σάπιος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vrot
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

rutten
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

råtten
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of rotten

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ROTTEN»

The term «rotten» is very widely used and occupies the 17.320 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ROTTEN» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «rotten» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «rotten» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about rotten

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10 QUOTES WITH «ROTTEN»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word rotten.
1
Hannah Arendt
Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
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Gary Burghoff
I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.
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Michael Caine
The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to.
4
Jeanne Calment
In life, people sometimes make rotten deals.
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Joan Collins
My grandmother spoiled my father rotten, and he grew up expecting women to do whatever he wanted. When he married my beautiful mother, Elsa, he expected her to give up her career as a champion ballroom dancer and become a good wife and mother, which she dutifully did.
6
Billy Connolly
I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.
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Nicholas Culpeper
For God's sake build not your faith upon Tradition, 'tis as rotten as a rotten Post.
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Les Dawson
I'm often accused of saying some pretty rotten things about my mother-in-law. But quite honestly, she's only got one major fault - it's called breathing.
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Judi Dench
I don't think that care homes are all rotten old places that ought to be shut down.
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Feist
Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there's these observations about romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ROTTEN»

Discover the use of rotten in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to rotten and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Rotten Island
Rotten Island has always been a paradise for nasty creatures, until one awful day a beautiful flower begins to grow, threatening to spoil the island forever.
William Steig, 2005
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Rotten
It's also pretty clear that his mom made a new friend while he was away---a rescued Rottweiler that JD immediately renames Johnny Rotten (yes, after that guy in the Sex Pistols).
Michael Northrop, 2013
3
Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs
Malcolm McLaren, Sid Vicious, Chrissie Hynde, Billy Idol, London and England in the late 1970s, the Pistols' creation and collapse...all are here, in perhaps the best book ever written about music and youth culture, by one of its most ...
John Lydon, Keith Zimmerman, Kent Zimmerman, 2014
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Spoiled Rotten
When her brother is killed, Trouble, who has everything she could ever want because of her brother and his "complex occupation," embarks on a mission of revenge that involves seducing the enemy and then killing him. Original.
Brandi Johnson, 2008
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Honestly, Red Riding Hood Was Rotten!: The Story of Little ...
Introduces the concept of point of view through Big Bad Wolf's retelling of the classic fairy tale "Little Red Riding Hood."
Trisha Speed Shaskan, 2013
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Born on a Rotten Day: Illuminating and Coping with the Dark ...
In this wickedly funny guide, professional astrologer Hazel Dixon-Cooper casts off sugar-coated astrology in favor of exploring the maladjusted side of the universe.
Hazel Dixon-Cooper, 2009
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Friends on a Rotten Day: The Astrology of Friendships
It’s about time for Friends on a Rotten Day, the first astrology book to focus entirely on friendships.
Hazel Dixon-Cooper, 2008
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Rotten Ralph
Ralph, a very, very nasty cat, finally sees the error of his ways -- or does he?
Jack Gantos, 2010
9
Rotten Teeth
The bright artwork is laugh-aloud funny and will have children begging to hear the story again, or maybe invent their very own tale.
Laura Simms, 2002
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Love on a Rotten Day: An Astrological Survival Guide to Romance
Leos love to be serviced? Cosmo's Bedside Astrologer, Hazel Dixon-Cooper, reveals all this and more in this sexy, uninhibited guide to love and romance, the follow-up to her hip and hilarious Born on a Rotten Day.
Hazel Dixon-Cooper, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ROTTEN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term rotten is used in the context of the following news items.
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Broadway Cast Recording Of SOMETHING ROTTEN! Now …
Fresh Shakespeare-themed Broadway musical comedy Something Rotten! received 10 Tony Award nominations this season, including Best Musical, Best Actor ... «Broadway World, May 15»
2
Will Power for Everyone: Tony-Nominated Something Rotten! Will …
Something Rotten! may soon bring the Renaissance to a city near you! ... Directed by Casey Nicholaw, Something Rotten! features a score by Wayne Kirkpatrick ... «Broadway.com, May 15»
3
Germany: Police officer force-feeds rotten pork to Muslim refugee
The officer reportedly forced the Moroccan man to eat rotten minced pork off the floor. Public broadcaster NDR that reported on the incidents due to their ... «International Business Times UK, May 15»
4
ArtsBeat | Tony Nominations Help 'Fun Home,' 'Something Rotten!' at …
And “Something Rotten!” is vying to join “An American in Paris” and “Finding Neverland” among audience-pleasing new musicals, according to figures released ... «New York Times, May 15»
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Man wants judge to let him withdraw plea in case of 6-year-old …
The Pennsylvania father who pleaded guilty after his daughter's teeth were found so rotten her life was endangered now says he didn't neglect his 6-year-old. «Fox News, May 15»
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Broadway's Something Rotten! Celebrates Its 10 Tony Award …
To toast their 10 Tony Award nominations, the cast and creative team of Broadway's Something Rotten! gathered outside the St. James Theatre to check out the ... «TheaterMania.com, Apr 15»
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Review: 'Something Rotten!,' an Over-the-Top Take on Shakespeare
Unchecked enthusiasm is not always an asset in musical comedy, despite the genre's reputation for wholesale peppiness. “Something Rotten!,” the ... «New York Times, Apr 15»
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It's the Bottoms on Top in Easygoing Comedy "Something Rotten!"
Shakespeare is a charismatic and conniving copycat who wears skin-tight leather pants in the new musical comedy “Something Rotten!” An easygoing effort ... «NBC New York, Apr 15»
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Pa. man pleads guilty in case over daughter's rotten teeth
The father of a 6-year-old girl whose teeth were so rotten her life was endangered pleaded guilty to reckless endangerment on Friday. Kenneth Wanamaker Jr. «6abc.com, Apr 15»
10
How 3 Broadway novices wrote 'Something Rotten!'
NEW YORK — It began with an intriguing premise for a musical: What would it have been like to be a fledgling playwright making a living at the same time as ... «SFGate, Mar 15»

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