Antonyms for rottenness
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : rot-n |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈrɒt n |
Definition of rottenness
Origin :- late 14c., from rotten + -ness.
- As in pollution : noun dirtiness, contamination
- As in putrefaction : noun decay
- As in putrescence : noun decay
- As in putridness : noun decay
- As in smuttiness : noun dirtiness
- As in spoilage : noun decay
- As in uncleanness : noun dirtiness
- As in vulgarism : noun corruption
- As in contamination : noun adulteration
- As in corruption : noun adulteration
- As in dirt : noun grime, impurity
- As in filth : noun dirt, pollution
- The earth is corrupt, science only serves to show its rottenness.
- Extract from : « Doctor Pascal » by Emile Zola
- One thing he teaches, that there is rottenness where he appears.
- Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- What rottenness was within that gilded splendor by which she was surrounded!
- Extract from : « The Daltons, Volume II (of II) » by Charles James Lever
- What right have they to propagate the rottenness of their minds and bodies?
- Extract from : « The Crooked House » by Brandon Fleming
- Only the rottenness in him hasn't broke out because of the weed.
- Extract from : « The Heart of Unaga » by Ridgwell Cullum
- And it's nauseating to think that you don't realize the rottenness of it.
- Extract from : « Otherwise Phyllis » by Meredith Nicholson
- It went down not so much because of the strength of the other side as because of its own rottenness.
- Extract from : « China, Japan and the U.S.A. » by John Dewey
- The rottenness of the ground gave chances, and made it hazardous.
- Extract from : « A Tramp's Notebook » by Morley Roberts
- Hugh remembered what he had said in talk with Harvey Rolfe about the rottenness of society.
- Extract from : « The Whirlpool » by George Gissing
- But the worm is at the root: rottenness at the heart is doing its work.
- Extract from : « Early Western Travels 1748-1846, v. 27 » by Various
Synonyms for rottenness
- abuse
- adulteration
- atrophy
- barbarism
- besmearing
- besmirching
- blight
- breakdown
- caries
- carrion
- consumption
- contagion
- contamination
- corrosion
- corruption
- crud
- cruddiness
- crumbling
- debasement
- decadence
- decay
- decline
- decomposition
- decrease
- decrepitude
- defilement
- degeneracy
- degeneration
- depreciation
- desecration
- deterioration
- dilapidation
- dirtying
- disease
- disintegration
- disrepair
- dissolution
- distortion
- doctoring
- downfall
- dreck
- dregs
- dung
- dying
- epidemic
- excrement
- extinction
- fading
- failing
- falsification
- feces
- feculence
- filth
- filthiness
- foul matter
- fouling
- foulness
- gangrene
- garbage
- gook
- greenhouse effect
- grime
- griminess
- ground
- grubbiness
- gunk
- impairment
- impurity
- infection
- manure
- mire
- misuse
- mortification
- muck
- mud
- nastiness
- noxiousness
- ordure
- perishing
- pestilence
- plague
- poisoning
- polluting
- pollution
- profanation
- putrefaction
- putrescence
- putridity
- putridness
- radioactivation
- refuse
- rot
- rottenness
- rotting
- ruin
- ruination
- rust
- scuz
- sediment
- senescence
- sewage
- silt
- sleaze
- slime
- slop
- sludge
- slush
- smudge
- smut
- smuttiness
- soil
- soiling
- solecism
- spoilage
- spoilation
- spoliation
- squalor
- stain
- taint
- tainting
- tarnish
- trash
- uncleanliness
- uncleanness
- vitiation
- wasting
- wasting away
- withering
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