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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Rotten \Rot"ten\, adjective [Icel. rotinn; akin to Sw. rutten, Dan. radden. See {Rot}.] Having rotted; putrid; decayed; as, a rotten apple; rotten meat. Hence: (a) Offensive to the smell; fetid; disgusting.
You common cry of 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.
{Rotten borough}. See under {Borough}.
{Rotten stone} (Min.), a soft stone, called also Tripoli (from the country from which it was formerly brought), used in all sorts of finer grinding and polishing in the arts, and for cleaning metallic substances. The name is also given to other friable siliceous stones applied to like uses.
Syn: Putrefied; decayed; carious; defective; unsound; corrupt; deceitful; treacherous. -- {Rot"ten*ly}, adverb -- {Rot"ten*ness}, n.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
rotten
adjective
1: very bad; "a lousy play"; "it's a stinking world" [syn: {icky}, {crappy}, {lousy}, {shitty}, {stinking}, {stinky}]
2: having rotted or disintegrated; usually implies foulness; "dead and rotten in his grave" [ant: {unrotten}]
3: damaged by decay; hence unsound and useless; "rotten floor boards"; "rotted beams"; "a decayed foundation" [syn: {decayed}, {rotted}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
289 Moby Thesaurus words for "rotten": abandoned, abominable, amiss, amoral, appalling, arrant, atrocious, awful, bad, bad-smelling, baneful, barfy, base, beastly, beneath contempt, bent, blameworthy, brackish, brutal, bum, cankered, carious, cloying, conscienceless, contaminated, contemptible, corroded, corrupt, corrupted, crappy, criminal, crooked, crumbling, crumbly, dark, debased, debauched, decadent, decayed, deceitful, decomposed, decomposing, decrepit, degenerate, degraded, deplorable, depraved, despicable, deteriorating, detestable, devious, dire, disagreeable, disgusting, dishonest, dishonorable, disintegrating, displeasing, dissatisfactory, dissolute, doubtful, dreadful, dubious, egregious, enormous, evasive, evil, fecal, feculent, felonious, festering, fetid, filthy, fishy, flagitious, flagrant, flyblown, foul, fraudulent, friable, frowsty, frowy, frowzy, fulsome, funky, fusty, gamy, gangrened, gangrenous, gloppy, gone bad, graveolent, grievous, grim, gross, gunky, hateful, heinous, hideous, high, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, horrifying, icky, ill, ill-got, ill-gotten, ill-smelling, immoral, indirect, infamous, infirm, iniquitous, insidious, lamentable, loathsome, lousy, low, low-down, maggoty, malodorous, mawkish, mean, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, mildewed, mildewy, miserable, moldy, monstrous, morally polluted, mortified, mouldy, mucky, musty, nasty, nauseant, nauseated, nauseating, nauseous, necrosed, necrotic, nefarious, nidorous, noisome, not kosher, notorious, noxious, obnoxious, odious, odorous, off, offensive, olid, ordurous, outrageous, overripe, peccant, perverse, perverted, pitiable, pitiful, poisonous, polluted, poor, poorish, profligate, puky, punk, putrefied, putrescent, putrid, questionable, rancid, rank, reasty, reasy, rebarbative, reechy, reeking, reeky, regrettable, reprehensible, reprobate, repulsive, ropy, rotten at, rotting, rough, sad, scabby, scandalous, schlock, scummy, scurfy, scurvy, shabby, shady, shameful, shameless, shifty, shitty, shocking, shoddy, sick, sickening, sinister, slabby, slimy, slippery, sloppy, sloshy, sludgy, slushy, smellful, smelling, smelly, sordid, sour, soured, sphacelated, spoiled, spoilt, sposhy, squalid, stale, steeped in iniquity, stenchy, stinking, strong, stuffy, sulfurous, suppurating, suppurative, suspicious, tainted, terrible, too bad, touched, tragic, tricky, turned, ulcerated, unclean, unconscienced, unconscientious, unconscionable, underhand, underhanded, unethical, unfirm, unhappy, unhealthy, unpleasant, unprincipled, unsatisfactory, unsavory, unscrupulous, unsolid, unsound, unspeakable, unstable, unstraightforward, unsturdy, unsubstantial, unwell, up, venal, vice-corrupted, vile, villainous, vitiated, vomity, warped, weevily, wicked, without remorse, without shame, woeful, wormy, worst, worthless, wretched, wrong, yecchy, yucky
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