rotten

Definition

  • adjective: having rotted or decayed and no longer able to be used, eaten, etc.
  • adjective: having 'rotted'
  • sometimes used figuratively
  • synonyms: putrid, treacherous, unsound

Examples

  • She's 'rotten to the core'. [=she's a very bad person; she's a very dishonest person]

  • ('Brit') He fancies you (something) 'rotten'. [=he likes you very much]

  • I feel 'rotten' [=I feel guilty; I am upset] about what I said.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) I say away. Go on, I'll follow thee - He waxes desperate with imagination - 'Tis not fit thus to obey him - To what issue will this come? - Something is rotten in the state of Denmark - Heaven will direct it - Nay, let's follow him Where wilt thou lead me? Speak, I'll go no further (..)
    2015 Hamlet