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rot

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of rot

1 language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense
  • I won't stand here and listen to such rot.
Synonyms of rot

balderdash, baloney (also boloney), beans, bilge, blarney, blather, bosh, bull [slang], bunk, bunkum (or buncombe), claptrap, drivel, folderol (also falderal), folly, foolishness, fudge, hogwash, hokeypokey, hokum, hooey, humbug, humbuggery, jazz, malarkey (also malarky), moonshine, nonsense, piffle, poppycock, rubbish, senselessness, silliness, stupidity, tommyrot, trash, trumpery, twaddle
Words Related to rot

absurdity, asininity, foolery, idiocy, imbecility, inaneness, inanity, insanity, kookiness, lunacy

absurdness, craziness, madness, senselessness, witlessness

monkey business, monkeyshine(s), shenanigan(s), tomfoolery

gas, hot air, rigmarole (also rigamarole)

double-talk, hocus-pocus
Near Antonyms of rot

levelheadedness, rationality, reasonability, reasonableness, sensibleness

common sense, horse sense, sense

discernment, judgment (or judgement), wisdom
2 the process by which dead organic matter separates into simpler substances
  • The rot begins shortly after the fish are killed.
Synonyms of rot

breakdown, corruption, decay, decomposition, festering, putrefaction, spoilage
Words Related to rot

crumbling, disintegration, dissolution

curdling, fermentation, moldering, souring
Near Antonyms of rot

growth, maturation, ripening

rot

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of rot

1 to become worse or of less value
  • The house slowly fell into disrepair and rotted.
Synonyms of rot

atrophy, crumble, decay, decline, degenerate, descend, deteriorate, devolve, ebb, regress, retrograde, sink, worsen
Words Related to rot

abate, de-escalate, diminish, downsize, dwindle, recede, wane

break down, corrupt, decompose, degrade, dilapidate, disintegrate, molder, putrefy

sour, spoil

lessen, lower, reduce

debilitate, undermine

droop, fail, fall, flag, lag, languish, run down, sag, slip, waste (away), weaken, wilt
Phrases Synonymous with rot

go to pot, go to seed (or run to seed)
Near Antonyms of rot

better, upgrade

enhance, enrich, fortify, heighten, intensify, strengthen

advance, develop, march, proceed, progress
Antonyms of rot

ameliorate, improve, meliorate
2 to go through decomposition
  • rotting vegetation on the bank of the river
Synonyms of rot

break down, corrupt, decay, decompose, disintegrate, fester, foul, mold, molder, putrefy, spoil
Words Related to rot

sour, turn

contaminate, defile, pollute, taint

addle, curdle, ferment

mortify

rust

crumble, decline, degenerate, descend, deteriorate, dilapidate, sink, wither
Phrases Synonymous with rot

fall apart, go to seed (or run to seed)
Near Antonyms of rot

age, develop, grow, mature, ripen

refresh, renew, restore

cleanse, purify

assemble, compose, integrate

ameliorate, better, improve, meliorate

Synonym Discussion of rot

decay, decompose, rot, putrefy, spoil mean to undergo destructive dissolution. decay implies a slow change from a state of soundness or perfection.
    • a decaying mansion
decompose stresses a breaking down by chemical change and when applied to organic matter a corruption.
    • the strong odor of decomposing vegetation
rot is a close synonym of decompose and often connotes foulness.
    • fruit was left to rot in warehouses
putrefy implies the rotting of animal matter and offensiveness to sight and smell.
    • corpses putrefying on the battlefield
spoil applies chiefly to the decomposition of foods.
    • keep the ham from spoiling

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