rotten Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite very bad
    stinking; shitty; stinky; crappy; lousy; icky.
    • a lousy play
    • it's a stinking world
  2. adjective satellite damaged by decay; hence unsound and useless
    rotted; decayed.
    • rotten floor boards
    • rotted beams
    • a decayed foundation
  3. adjective satellite having decayed or disintegrated; usually implies foulness
    • dead and rotten in his grave

WordNet

Rot"ten adjective
Etymology
Icel. rotinn; akin to Sw. rutten, Dan. radden. See Rot.
Definitions
  1. Having rotted; putrid; decayed; as, a rotten apple; rotten meat. Hence: (a) Offensive to the smell; fetid; disgusting.
    You common cry or curs! whose breath I hate As reek of the rotten fens. Shak.
    (b) Not firm or trusty; unsound; defective; treacherous; unsafe; as, a rotten plank, bone, stone. "The deepness of the rotten way." Knolles. Syn. -- Putrefied; decayed; carious; defective; unsound; corrupt; deceitful; treacherous. -- Rot"ten*ly, adv. -- Rot"ten*ness, n.

Webster 1913