rotate, v. 1. revolve, turn, spin, twirl, twiddle, Archaic, trundle; wheel, swivel, pivot; gyrate, reel, circle, circumvolve, circumrotate; (all of the hips) bump, grind, bump and grind.
2. (all in reference to a job, position, etc.) replace, switch, move around, exchange, interchange; alternate, change or exchange places, trade places, trade off, take turns, Inf. swap. rote, n. 1. routine, fixed routine, mechanical procedure, ritual; habit, rut, groove.
2. by rote from memory, by heart; unthinkingly, without thinking; mechanically, automatically, by remote control.
rotten, adj. 1. putrid, decayed, decomposed, puru lent; rancid, carious, maggoty, wormy, worm-eaten; fetid, feculent, rank, Archaic, reechy; spoiled, contaminated, tainted, unclean, foul, flyblown; diseased, saprogenic, gangrenous, bad, Pathol, sphaculate, Pathol, necrotic, Pathol, mortified; putrescent, decaying, decomposing, rotting; noxious, noisome, mephitic.
2. corrupt, immoral, unprincipled, unscrupulous, shameless, abandoned, reprobate, miscreant; depraved, wicked, evil, iniquitous, facinorous, nefarious, flagitious, villainous; debased, debauched, demoralized, degenerate, warped, perverted; dissolute, profligate, dissipated, wanton.
3. Informal, miserable, wretched, sorry, pitiful, pitiable, pathetic; meager, petty, piddling, Inf. measly, paltry, Inf lousy, SI.crummy; unacceptable, unsatisfactory, inadequate, insufficient.
4. despicable, contemptible, beneath contempt, worthy of contempt, detestable, base, base-spirited, mean, mean spirited, vile, low, Inf. low-down, SI.low-down-dirty-rotten, Archaic, caitiff; loathsome, abominable, disgusting. rotund, adj. 1. round, rounded, bulbous; globular, global, globelike, globoid; spherical, spheroid; or-bic.
2. corpulent, plump, pleasingly or pleasantly plump; stout, portly, chubby, pudgy, roly-poly, well-fed, (of a woman) buxom, Inf. tubby; fat, overweight, obese.
3. sonorous, canorous, full, full-toned, rich, mellow, orotund; resonant, vibrant. rotundity, n. 1. roundness, roundedness, globu-larity, globosity; sphericity, sphericalness, orbiculari-
ty.
2. corpulence, plumpness, stoutness, Fr. embonpoint, portliness, chubbiness, pudginess, roly-poliness,
(of a woman) buxomness; obesity, fatness, adiposity.
3. sonority, sonorousness, canorousness, fullness, richness, mellowness, orotundity; resonance, vibrancy. rou£, n. rake, rakehell, profligate, wanton, blood, debauchee, libertine, Inf. rip, SI.swinger; playboy, womanizer, ladies' man, man about town, woman-chaser, SI.skirt-chaser, SI.wolf, SI.lover boy, SI.tomcat, SI.masher, SI.make-out artist, SI.man on the make; philanderer, trifler, dallier, gay dog, gay deceiver, gallant, flirt, Obs. coquet, Inf two-timer; Don Juan, Cassanova, Lothario, Romeo, charmer, Inf. lady-killer, SI.stud, SI.sheik; Inf sugar daddy, rough, adj. 1. irregular, uneven, coarse, not smooth, rugged, bumpy, jagged, craggy, scraggy; stony, rocky; stubbled, knotted, nodose, gnarled; wrinkly, rugulose, crinkly, corrugated, scaly; lumpy, nodulous.
2. shaggy, hairy, hirsute, crinose, trichoid; bristly, bristling, Bot., Zool. hispid, setaceous, setose, Bot., Zool. setulose, setigerous, setiferous, Bot. strigose; bushy, unshorn, unshaven, bearded; unkempt, disheveled, disordered; furry, pilose; velvety, Bot. villous;