The meaning of ROTTEN is having rotted : putrid. How to use rotten in a sentence.

The lizards live in cool, dark places such as rotten logs. The bins were full of rotten food. The birds feed on insects and rotten meat. The crowd threw stones and rotten eggs at the …

If food, wood, or another substance is rotten, it has decayed and can no longer be used.

The lizards live in cool, dark places such as rotten logs. The trash cans were full of rotten food. The birds feed on insects and rotten meat. The crowd threw stones and rotten eggs at the …

decomposing or decaying; putrid; tainted, foul, or bad-smelling. corrupt or morally offensive. a rotten piece of work; a rotten day at the office. a rotten little liar; a rotten trick. (of soil, rocks, …

Use the adjective rotten to describe something that is decaying or decayed. If you are like most people, you occasionally have to throw out rotten food — sometimes, it's so nasty you can't even tell what the food was in its original form!

1. having rotted; decomposing or decaying. 2. tainted or foul-smelling; putrid. 3. corrupt or morally offensive. 4. wretchedly bad or unsatisfactory; miserable: a rotten day. 5. contemptible; despicable: a rotten trick. rot′ten•ness, n.

Definition of rotten adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

If you describe someone as rotten, you are insulting them or criticizing them because you think that they are very unpleasant or unkind.

ROTTEN meaning: 1 : having rotted or decayed and no longer able to be used, eaten, etc. sometimes used figuratively; 2 : very bad or unpleasant