rotten

1 adjective

1 badly decayed: rotten fruit | the smell of rotten eggs | The wood was completely rotten.

2 informal very nasty or unpleasant: What rotten weather! | It's a rotten thing to do.

3 informal a word meaning very bad at doing something, or very badly done, used especially when you feel annoyed about this: He's a rotten driver.

4 feel rotten

a) to feel ill

b) to feel unhappy and guilty about something

(+ about): I felt rotten about having to fire him.

5 a rotten apple one bad person who has a bad effect on all the others in a group

— rottenly adverb — rottenness noun (U) rot away phrasal verb (I, T) to decay completely and disappear or break into small pieces, or to make something do this: In places the timbers have rotted away. 2 adverb informal

1 spoil sb rotten to treat someone too well or too kindly, especially a child: Melanie's beautiful, wilful, and she's been spoiled rotten all her life.

2 fancy sb rotten BrE humorous to be extremely attracted to someone in a sexual way