Synonyms of rotten in English:

rotten

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adjective

1‘the smell of rotten meat’

SYNONYMS

decaying, decayed, rotting, bad, off, decomposed, decomposing, putrid, putrescent, spoiled, spoilt, tainted, perished, mouldy, mouldering, mildewy, sour, rancid, rank, festering, fetid, stinking, smelly, unfit for human consumption

addled

maggoty, worm-eaten, wormy, flyblown

ANTONYMS

fresh

2‘the wooden floor was rotten in places’

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disintegrating, crumbling, falling to pieces, decomposing, decaying

corroding

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sound

3‘he had the most disgusting rotten teeth’

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decaying, decayed, crumbling, carious, black

rare caried

4‘a New York detective who's rotten to the core’

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corrupt, unprincipled, dishonest, dishonourable, unscrupulous, untrustworthy, immoral, villainous, bad, wicked, evil, sinful, iniquitous, vicious, base, amoral, debauched, degenerate, dissolute, dissipated, depraved, perverted, wanton

venal

informal crooked, warped

British informal bent

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honourable, decent, incorruptible

5‘it was a rotten thing to do’

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nasty, unkind, unpleasant, foul, bad, obnoxious, vile, contemptible, despicable, wretched, shabby

spiteful, mean, malicious, poisonous, mean-spirited, cruel, hateful, hurtful

unfair, uncharitable, uncalled for, below the belt, unacceptable, unwarranted

informal dirty, filthy, dirty rotten, low-down, off

British informal beastly, out of order

vulgar slang shitty

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nice, pleasant, kind

6‘he was a rotten journalist’

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bad, poor, dreadful, awful, terrible, frightful, atrocious, hopeless, inadequate, inferior, unsatisfactory, laughable, substandard

informal crummy, pathetic, useless, lousy, appalling, abysmal, dire

British informal duff, chronic, poxy, rubbish, pants, a load of pants

North American vulgar slang chickenshit

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good, accomplished

7‘you can keep your rotten job for all I care!’

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wretched, horrible, unspeakable

informal damn, damned, blasted, blessed, flaming, precious, confounded

British informal flipping, blinking, blooming, bloody, bleeding, effing, chuffing

North American informal goddam

Australian, New Zealand informal plurry

British informal, dated bally, ruddy, deuced

vulgar slang fucking, frigging

British vulgar slang sodding

Irish vulgar slang fecking

8‘she's had a pretty rotten time’

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unpleasant, disagreeable, miserable, awful, dreadful, terrible, frightful, bad, vile, grim, horrid, horrible, ghastly

disappointing, regrettable, unfortunate, unlucky

informal lousy, beastly, diabolical

British informal shocking

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delightful, good, nice

9‘I feel rotten about it—I've ruined his life’

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guilty, conscience-stricken, remorseful, guilt-ridden, ashamed, chastened, contrite, sorry, full of regret, regretful, repentant, penitent, shamefaced, self-reproachful, apologetic

10‘I felt rotten and couldn't eat for two days’

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ill, unwell, poorly, bad, out of sorts, indisposed, not oneself, sick, queasy, nauseous, nauseated, peaky, liverish, green around the gills, run down, washed out, faint, dizzy, giddy, light-headed

British off, off colour

informal under the weather, below par, not up to par, funny, peculiar, rough, lousy, awful, terrible, dreadful, crummy

British informal grotty, ropy

Scottish informal wabbit, peely-wally

Australian, New Zealand informal crook

vulgar slang crappy

dated queer, seedy

rare peaked, peakish

ANTONYMS

well, okay