I smell something rotten.
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Rotten
//ˈɹɒtn̩//
Synonyms for "rotten" (325 found)
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Closest matches (65)
decayedstalestinkingabandonedabominableaddledamissamoralappallingarrantatrociousawfulbadbad-smellingbanefulbarfybasebeastlybeneath contemptbent
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blameworthybrackishbrutalbumcankeredcariouscheapcloyingconsciencelesscontaminatedcontemptiblecorrodedcorruptcorruptedcrappycriminalcrookedcrumblingcrumblydamnabledarkdebaseddebaucheddecadentdeceitfuldecomposeddecomposingdecrepitdegeneratedegradeddeplorabledepraveddespicabledeterioratingdetestabledeviousdiredirtydisagreeable
Strong matches (98)
disgustingdishonestdishonorabledisintegratingdispleasingdissatisfactorydissolutedoubtfuldreadfuldubiousegregiousenormousevasiveevilfecalfeculentfeloniousfesteringfetidfilthy
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fishyflagitiousflagrantflyblownfoulfraudulentfriablefrowstyfrowyfrowzyfulsomefunkyfustygamygangrenedgangrenousgloppygone badgraveolentgrievousgrimgrossgunkyhatefulheinoushideoushighhorrendoushorriblehorridhorrifichorrifyingickyillill-gotill-gottenill-smellingimmoralimpureindirectinfamousinfirminiquitousinsidiouslamentableloathsomelousylowlow-downmaggotymalodorousmawkishmeanmephiticmiasmalmiasmicmildewedmildewymiserablemoldymonstrousmorally pollutedmortifiedmouldymuckymustynastynauseantnauseated
Related words (162)
nauseatingnauseousnecrosednecroticnefariousnidorousnoisomenot koshernotoriousnoxiousobnoxiousodiousodorousoffoffensiveolidordurousoutrageousoverripepeccant
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perversepervertedpitiablepitifulpoisonouspollutedpoorpoorishpoorlyprofligatepukypunkputrefiedputrescentputridquestionablerancidrankreastyreasyrebarbativereechyreekingreekyregrettablereprehensiblereprobaterepulsiverevoltingropyrotten atrottingroughsadscabbyscandalousschlockscrew upscummyscurfyscurvyseamyshabbyshadyshamefulshamelessshiftyshittyshockingshoddysicksickeningsinisterslabbyslimyslipperysloppysloshysludgyslushysmellfulsmellingsmellysordidsoursouredsphacelatedspoiledspoiltsposhysqualidsteeped in iniquitystenchystrongstuffysulfuroussuppuratingsuppurativesuspicioustaintedterribletoo badtouchedtragictrickyturneduglyulcerateduncleanunconsciencedunconscientiousunconscionableunderhandunderhandedunethicalunfirmunhappyunhealthyunpleasantunprincipledunsatisfactoryunsavoryunscrupulousunsolidunsoundunspeakableunstableunstraightforwardunsturdyunsubstantialunwellupvenalvice-corruptedviciousvilevillainousvitiatedvomitywarpedweevilywickedwithout remorsewithout shamewoefulwormyworstworthlesswretchedwrongyecchyyucky
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1 entriesrelated to
7 entriessimilar
4 entriesTranslations
182 translations across 91 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- gevrot adj (decayed, gone bad)
Albanian
2 entries- kalbur adj (decayed, gone bad)
- prishur adj (decayed, gone bad)
Amharic
1 entries- የገማ adj (decayed, gone bad)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- σαπρός adj (decayed, gone bad)
Arabic
1 entries- فَاسِد adj (decayed, gone bad)
Armenian
1 entries- փտած adj (decayed, gone bad)
Aromanian
1 entries- putrid adj (decayed, gone bad)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- çürük adj (decayed, gone bad)
- çürümüş adj (decayed, gone bad)
Bashkir
1 entries- серек adj (decayed, gone bad)
Basque
1 entries- ustel adj (decayed, gone bad)
Belarusian
1 entries- гнілы́ adj (decayed, gone bad)
Bikol Central
1 entries- lapa adj (decayed, gone bad)
Bulgarian
4 entries- безнравствен adj (cruel, mean or immoral)
- гнил adj (decayed, gone bad)
- неморален adj (cruel, mean or immoral)
- неприятен adj (bad or terrible)
Burmese
1 entries- ပုပ် adj (decayed, gone bad)
Carpathian Rusyn
1 entries- гнилый adj (decayed, gone bad)
Catalan
1 entries- podrit adj (decayed, gone bad)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 腐朽 adj (decayed, gone bad)
- 腐爛 /腐烂 adj (decayed, gone bad)
Cimbrian
1 entries- damaal adj (decayed, gone bad)
Cornish
3 entries- breyn adj (decayed, gone bad)
- poder adj (decayed, gone bad)
- podrek adj (decayed, gone bad)
Crimean Tatar
1 entries- çürük adj (decayed, gone bad)
Czech
1 entries- shnilý adj (decayed, gone bad)
Dalmatian
1 entries- muas adj (decayed, gone bad)
Danish
1 entries- rådden adj (decayed, gone bad)
Dutch
3 entries- gemeen adj (cruel, mean or immoral)
- rot adj (decayed, gone bad)
- verrot adj (decayed, gone bad)
Eastern Mari
1 entries- шӱйшӧ adj (decayed, gone bad)
Erzya
1 entries- наксадо adj (decayed, gone bad)
Esperanto
2 entries- aĉa adj (cruel, mean or immoral)
- putra adj (decayed, gone bad)
Faroese
1 entries- rotin adj (decayed, gone bad)
Finnish
4 entries- kurja adj (cruel, mean or immoral)
- kurja adj (bad or terrible)
- laho adj (decayed, gone bad)
- mädäntynyt adj (decayed, gone bad)
French
2 entries- mauvais adj (cruel, mean or immoral)
- pourri adj (decayed, gone bad)
Friulian
2 entries- fraid adj (decayed, gone bad)
- frait adj (decayed, gone bad)
Galician
1 entries- podre adj (decayed, gone bad)
German
4 entries- faul adj (decayed, gone bad)
- faulig adj (decayed, gone bad)
- gammelig adj (decayed, gone bad)
- gemein adj (cruel, mean or immoral)
Greek
3 entries- σάπιος adj (decayed, gone bad)
- σαθρός adj (decayed, gone bad)
- φαύλος adj (cruel, mean or immoral)
Hindi
1 entries- सड़ा adj (decayed, gone bad)
Hungarian
1 entries- rohadt adj (decayed, gone bad)
Hunsrik
1 entries- faul adj (decayed, gone bad)
Ido
1 entries- putrinta adj (decayed, gone bad)
Indonesian
1 entries- busuk adj (decayed, gone bad)
Ingrian
3 entries- laho adj (decayed, gone bad)
- lahokas adj (decayed, gone bad)
- mätä adj (decayed, gone bad)
Irish
1 entries- lofa adj (decayed, gone bad)
Italian
3 entries- malvagio adj (cruel, mean or immoral)
- marcio adj (decayed, gone bad)
- marcito adj (decayed, gone bad)
Japanese
2 entries- 腐った adj (decayed, gone bad)
- 腐朽した adj (decayed, gone bad)
Kabuverdianu
1 entries- podri adj (decayed, gone bad)
Kazakh
1 entries- шірік adj (decayed, gone bad)
Khmer
3 entries- រលួយ adj (decayed, gone bad)
- រអៀច adj (decayed, gone bad)
- ស្អុយ adj (decayed, gone bad)
Komi-Zyrian
1 entries- сісь adj (decayed, gone bad)
Korean
1 entries- 썩다 adj (decayed, gone bad)
Latin
3 entries- cariōsus adj (decayed, gone bad)
- puter adj (decayed, gone bad)
- putris adj (decayed, gone bad)
Latvian
1 entries- sapuvis adj (decayed, gone bad)
Low German
2 entries- fuul adj (decayed, gone bad)
- verfuult adj (decayed, gone bad)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- zgnity adj (decayed, gone bad)
Macedonian
2 entries- гнил adj (decayed, gone bad)
- трул adj (decayed, gone bad)
Malayalam
3 entries- അളിഞ്ഞ adj (decayed, gone bad)
- ചീഞ്ഞ adj (decayed, gone bad)
- ചീഞ്ഞ adj (bad or terrible)
Mansaka
2 entries- baog adj (decayed, gone bad)
- gabok adj (decayed, gone bad)
Marathi
3 entries- सडलेला adj (decayed, gone bad)
- सडलेली adj (decayed, gone bad)
- सडलेले adj (decayed, gone bad)
Moksha
1 entries- наксада adj (decayed, gone bad)
Māori
4 entries- hakuhaku adj (decayed, gone bad)
- manumanu adj (decayed, gone bad)
- manumanuā adj (decayed, gone bad)
- pipirau adj (decayed, gone bad)
Navajo
1 entries- dláád adj (decayed, gone bad)
Occitan
1 entries- poirit adj (decayed, gone bad)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- چوروك adj (decayed, gone bad)
Papiamentu
1 entries- putri adj (decayed, gone bad)
Persian
1 entries- پوسیده adj (decayed, gone bad)
Plautdietsch
3 entries- frosich adj (decayed, gone bad)
- ful adj (decayed, gone bad)
- morsch adj (decayed, gone bad)
Polish
4 entries- zepsuty adj (decayed, gone bad)
- zepsuty adj (cruel, mean or immoral)
- zepsuty adj (bad or terrible)
- zgniły adj (decayed, gone bad)
Portuguese
3 entries- cruel adj (cruel, mean or immoral)
- malvado adj (cruel, mean or immoral)
- podre adj (decayed, gone bad)
Quechua
1 entries- ismu adj (decayed, gone bad)
Rapa Nui
1 entries- piro adj (decayed, gone bad)
Romanian
2 entries- putred adj (decayed, gone bad)
- putregăios adj (decayed, gone bad)
Russian
3 entries- га́дкий adj (cruel, mean or immoral)
- гнило́й adj (decayed, gone bad)
- ту́хлый adj (decayed, gone bad)
Sardinian
2 entries- fracicu adj (decayed, gone bad)
- prudicu adj (decayed, gone bad)
Scottish Gaelic
4 entries- breun adj (cruel, mean or immoral)
- grod adj (decayed, gone bad)
- grod adj (cruel, mean or immoral)
- lobhte adj (decayed, gone bad)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- gnjȉo adj (decayed, gone bad)
- trȕo adj (decayed, gone bad)
- гњио adj (decayed, gone bad)
- труо adj (decayed, gone bad)
Slovak
2 entries- hnilý adj (decayed, gone bad)
- zhnitý adj (decayed, gone bad)
Slovene
1 entries- gnil adj (decayed, gone bad)
Spanish
4 entries- carcomido adj (decayed, gone bad)
- dañado adj (decayed, gone bad)
- estropeado adj (decayed, gone bad)
- malo adj (cruel, mean or immoral)
Sundanese
1 entries- buruk adj (decayed, gone bad)
Swedish
2 entries- rutten adj (decayed, gone bad)
- rutten adj (cruel, mean or immoral)
Tajik
1 entries- пӯсида adj (decayed, gone bad)
Telugu
1 entries- చెడిపోయిన adj (decayed, gone bad)
Tetum
1 entries- dodok adj (decayed, gone bad)
Thai
1 entries- เน่า adj (decayed, gone bad)
Turkish
2 entries- bozuk adj (decayed, gone bad)
- çürük adj (decayed, gone bad)
Udmurt
1 entries- сись adj (decayed, gone bad)
Ukrainian
1 entries- гнили́й adj (decayed, gone bad)
Vietnamese
2 entries- mục adj (decayed, gone bad)
- rữa adj (decayed, gone bad)
Warlpiri
1 entries- puka adj (decayed, gone bad)
Welsh
3 entries- braen adj (decayed, gone bad)
- madreddog adj (decayed, gone bad)
- pwdr adj (decayed, gone bad)
Western Mari
1 entries- шӱшӹ adj (decayed, gone bad)
Yiddish
1 entries- פֿאַרפֿוילט adj (decayed, gone bad)
Zealandic
2 entries- rot adj (decayed, gone bad)
- vrot adj (decayed, gone bad)
Sample sentences
26 total sentences available.
I bought it thinking it was cheap, but it was rotten, so I ended up losing out.
Source: tatoeba (28503)
Half of the apples are rotten.
Source: tatoeba (29627)
Quite a lot of rotten apples were in the basket.
Source: tatoeba (35412)
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