Meaning: rotten

That fruit is rotten.

The most generic adjective for decomposing or decomposed solid but soft food, typically fruit.
The target sense is the physical decomposition of an item of food, in all dimensions. Avoid terms for relatively superficial, external effects, e.g. mouldy.
As a generic term, the same lexeme is in many languages extended to apply to a range of organic tissues, including the ‘rotting’ of other parts of plants such as wood, and the flesh/meat of animals. Do not, however, enter additional lexemes specific to any of these other senses.
Avoid any additional terms more specific to the decay or dissolution of harder matter such as teeth or bone, or erosion.
The target sense is just the decomposition of the physical structure of solid but soft food. Avoid narrower terms specific to any smell accompanying that decomposition, e.g. musty, putrid.
The default term entered should be neutral, and generic. Avoid narrower terms, not least those that inherently bear a value judgement (typically negative in this meaning), including the specific sense of no longer good to eat: e.g. stale, off, putrid.
The target sense is the literal one of decomposition. Avoid additional lexemes that are extensions to negative senses such as corrupt, unjust, evil, useless, etc..
Enter the neutral register term from the basic vocabulary: avoid technical, biological terms (e.g. putrefied) or slang.

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