decomposed

The word “decomposed” has 3 syllables: de-com-posed

It's pronounced as /ˌdiː.kəmˈpoʊzd/


What is synonym and antonym for decomposed?

In the thesaurus, “decomposed” has 122 synonyms and 53 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for decomposed along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for decomposed

  • addled
  • bad
  • bad-smelling
  • broke down
  • carious
  • carrion
  • contaminated
  • corroded
  • corrupt
  • corrupted
  • crumbled
  • crumbling
  • curdled
  • decayed
  • decaying
  • declined
  • decomposing
  • defiled
  • degenerated
  • descended
  • deteriorated
  • dilapidated
  • disappointing
  • disgusting
  • disheartening
  • disintegrated
  • disintegrating
  • displeasing
  • effete
  • fecal
  • feculent
  • fell apart
  • fermented
  • festered
  • festering
  • fetid
  • foul
  • fouled
  • frowzy
  • funky
  • fusty
  • gamy
  • gangrenous
  • gross
  • high
  • impure
  • infected
  • infested
  • loathsome
  • loud
  • lousy
  • low-quality
  • malodorous
  • mephitic
  • mildewy
  • molded
  • moldered
  • moldering
  • moldy
  • mortified
  • mortifying
  • musty
  • nasty
  • nauseating
  • nidorous
  • noisome
  • not up to par
  • not up to snuff
  • noxious
  • off
  • offensive
  • overripe
  • perished
  • pestilential
  • poisonous
  • polluted
  • poor
  • purulent
  • pustular
  • putrefied
  • putrefying
  • putrescent
  • putrid
  • putrified
  • quiet
  • ran to seed
  • rancid
  • rank
  • reeking
  • riddled
  • rotted
  • rotten
  • rotting
  • ruined
  • rusted
  • sank
  • slack
  • smelling
  • smelly
  • sour
  • soured
  • sourish
  • spoiled
  • spoilt
  • stale
  • stenchful
  • stinking
  • strong
  • substandard
  • sunk
  • tainted
  • touched
  • turned
  • turned off
  • unrewarding
  • unsatisfactory
  • unsound
  • vile
  • wasted
  • went to seed
  • whiffy
  • withered

Antonyms for decomposed

  • aged
  • ameliorated
  • aromatic
  • assembled
  • bettered
  • cleansed
  • composed
  • decent
  • developed
  • developing
  • flourishing
  • fragrant
  • fresh
  • germinating
  • good
  • grew
  • growing
  • helpful
  • honest
  • improved
  • improving
  • integrated
  • kind
  • matured
  • meliorated
  • moral
  • new
  • nice
  • perfumed
  • pleasant
  • preserved
  • pristine
  • pure
  • purified
  • refreshed
  • renewed
  • restored
  • ripened
  • ripening
  • savory
  • superior
  • sweet
  • trustworthy
  • uncontaminated
  • uncorrupt
  • undecayed
  • undecomposed
  • undefiled
  • unpolluted
  • unspoiled
  • untainted
  • untouched
  • wholesome

Meanings of decomposed

  • verb
    1. To separate or break down something into its components; to disintegrate or fragment.
    2. To rot, decay or putrefy.

Example Sentences

  • The fallen tree had decomposed into rich soil over the years.
  • They found decomposed remains deep in the forest.
  • The organic waste decomposed rapidly in the compost bin.
  • After several weeks, the fruit decomposed and attracted insects.
  • The animal’s body decomposed naturally in the wild.

On this page you'll find 175 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to decomposed, such as: addled, aged, ameliorated, aromatic, assembled, bad, bad-smelling.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

eaten

  • affronted
  • aggravated
  • agitated
  • angered
  • annoyed
  • antagonized
  • badgered
  • baited
  • ballyragged
  • banqueted
  • boarded
  • bolted
  • bothered
  • breakfasted
  • broken bread
  • broken down
  • broken up
  • bugged
  • bullyragged
  • chafed
  • chewed
  • consumed
  • corroded
  • decimated
  • decomposed
  • destroyed
  • devastated
  • deviled
  • devilled
  • devoured
  • digested
  • dined
  • dined out
  • discomforted
  • discomposed
  • disintegrated
  • dispatched
  • disquieted
  • dissolved
  • distressed
  • downed
  • dug in
  • enflamed
  • enraged
  • eroded
  • exasperated
  • exercised
  • fared
  • feasted
  • fed
  • fretted
  • frosted
  • galled
  • glutted
  • gnawed
  • gorged
  • gormandized
  • got
  • got to
  • gotten
  • grated
  • grazed
  • griped
  • gulped
  • gummed
  • hagridden
  • harassed
  • harried
  • hassled
  • heckled
  • incensed
  • inflamed
  • infuriated
  • ingested
  • insulted
  • irked
  • irritated
  • itched
  • lapped
  • licked
  • lunched
  • maddened
  • mangled
  • masticated
  • messed
  • miffed
  • mouthed
  • munched
  • nagged
  • narked
  • nettled
  • nibbled
  • noshed
  • nursed
  • offended
  • outraged
  • overeaten
  • overfed
  • partaken
  • peeved
  • persecuted
  • perturbed
  • pestered
  • picked
  • picnicked
  • pigged out
  • piqued
  • plagued
  • polished off
  • provoked
  • put away
  • put down
  • put out
  • rankled
  • rasped
  • refreshed
  • regaled
  • relished
  • repasted
  • riled
  • roiled
  • roused
  • rubbed the wrong way
  • ruffled
  • ruined
  • savored
  • savoured
  • scoffed
  • slopped
  • snacked
  • spited
  • supped
  • swallowed
  • swilled
  • tasted
  • teased
  • undone
  • unhinged
  • unsettled
  • upset
  • vexed
  • vext
  • victualed
  • victualled
  • wasted
  • wolfed
  • worn on
  • worried
  • wrecked

ebbed

abraded

  • ate
  • barked
  • bit
  • broke down
  • broke up
  • bruised
  • burned
  • burnt
  • chafed
  • chewed
  • clawed
  • contused
  • corraded
  • corroded
  • cut
  • decomposed
  • disintegrated
  • dissolved
  • enflamed
  • erased
  • eroded
  • excoriated
  • filed
  • flayed
  • frayed
  • frazzled
  • fretted
  • galled
  • gnawed
  • grated
  • grazed
  • ground
  • honed
  • inflamed
  • irritated
  • lacerated
  • nibbled
  • peeled
  • rasped
  • reduced
  • rubbed
  • rubbed out
  • sandblasted
  • sandpapered
  • scoured
  • scraped
  • scratched
  • scuffed
  • sharpened
  • shaved
  • skinned
  • whetted
  • wore
  • wore out

bad

  • abhorrent
  • abominable
  • abominably
  • abomination
  • abysmal
  • abysmally
  • achy
  • acrid
  • acrimonious
  • acute
  • addled
  • admirable
  • adverse
  • afflicted
  • aggravating
  • aggrieved
  • agonized
  • ailing
  • airsick
  • amiss
  • anathema
  • anguished
  • annoying
  • appalling
  • arch
  • atrocious
  • atrociously
  • atrociousness
  • atrocity
  • awe-inspiring
  • awful
  • awfully
  • babyish
  • badass
  • badly
  • badness
  • baleful
  • balefulness
  • balky
  • baneful
  • banned
  • bargain-basement
  • barred
  • base
  • bastard
  • beastly
  • below par
  • bilious
  • bitchy
  • bitter
  • black
  • blamable
  • blameworthy
  • bleak
  • blemished
  • blue
  • broken
  • brokenhearted
  • brummagem
  • brutal
  • bum
  • bush
  • bush-league
  • cancer
  • canker
  • careless
  • carsick
  • cast down
  • catty
  • caustic
  • censurable
  • challenged
  • cheap
  • cheapjack
  • cheeky
  • cheerless
  • cheesy
  • childish
  • coarse
  • comfortless
  • common
  • condemned
  • conscience-stricken
  • contagious
  • contaminated
  • contemptible
  • contemptuous
  • contrary
  • contrite
  • cool
  • corroded
  • corrupt
  • corrupted
  • corruption
  • counterfeit
  • crappy
  • crestfallen
  • criminal
  • crippled
  • critical
  • cruddy
  • cruel
  • crumbled
  • crumby
  • crummy
  • curdled
  • cursed
  • curst
  • cussed
  • cut-rate
  • damaged
  • damaging
  • damnable
  • damnably
  • dangerous
  • dark
  • darkening
  • darkness
  • deadly
  • debased
  • debauched
  • debauchery
  • debilitated
  • decay
  • decayed
  • decaying
  • decomposed
  • decomposing
  • decrepit
  • defaced
  • defective
  • defiant
  • deficient
  • deficiently
  • defiled
  • defiling
  • degeneracy
  • degenerate
  • degenerated
  • dejected
  • deleterious
  • delinquent
  • deplorable
  • deplorably
  • depraved
  • depravedness
  • depravity
  • deprecating
  • depressed
  • depressing
  • derogatory
  • desolate
  • despairing
  • despicable
  • despiteful
  • despondent
  • destructive
  • deteriorated
  • detestable
  • detestably
  • detrimental
  • devastating
  • devilishness
  • devilry
  • deviltry
  • devious
  • diabolism
  • difficult
  • dirty
  • disabled
  • disadvantageous
  • disagreeable
  • disallowed
  • disappointed
  • disastrous
  • disastrously
  • disconsolate
  • discouraged
  • discouraging
  • disdainful
  • diseased
  • disfigured
  • disgraceful
  • disgusting
  • disheartened
  • dishonest
  • dishonorable
  • disintegrated
  • disintegrating
  • dismal
  • disobedient
  • disobliging
  • disordered
  • disorderly
  • disparaging
  • dispirited
  • displeasing
  • disreputable
  • disrespectful
  • dissatisfactory
  • dissolute
  • distasteful
  • distressed
  • distressing
  • dizzy
  • doleful
  • dolorous
  • down
  • down in the mouth
  • downcast
  • downhearted
  • dreadful
  • dreadfully
  • drear
  • dreary
  • droopy
  • egregious
  • egregiously
  • el cheapo
  • elegiac
  • elegiacal
  • elfish
  • enormity
  • envious
  • errant
  • erring
  • erroneous
  • evil
  • evil-minded
  • evildoing
  • evilness
  • execrable
  • execrably
  • extreme
  • fake
  • fallen
  • fallible
  • fatal
  • faulty
  • feeble
  • fermented
  • feverish
  • fiendishness
  • fierce
  • flagrant
  • flagrantly
  • flashy
  • flawed
  • forbidden
  • forlorn
  • foul
  • fouled
  • fragile
  • frail
  • from hunger
  • froward
  • funereal
  • galling
  • gangrenous
  • garish
  • gaudy
  • ghastly
  • gimcrack
  • glitzy
  • gloomy
  • glum
  • gnarly
  • god-awful
  • godawful
  • grand
  • grave
  • gray
  • grey
  • grieving
  • grim
  • gross
  • grossly
  • guilty
  • half-assed
  • halt
  • hangdog
  • harmed
  • harmful
  • harsh
  • hateful
  • hazardous
  • headstrong
  • heartbroken
  • heartsick
  • heartsore
  • heavyhearted
  • heinousness
  • hellish
  • hideous
  • hopeless
  • horrendous
  • horrendously
  • horrible
  • horribly
  • horrid
  • horrifically
  • hostile
  • hurt
  • hurtful
  • hypochondriac
  • hypochondriacal
  • icky
  • ignoble
  • ill
  • ill-behaved
  • ill-mannered
  • ill-natured
  • illegal
  • immature
  • immoral
  • immorality
  • impaired
  • imperfect
  • imperiling
  • imperilling
  • impish
  • impolite
  • imposing
  • impressive
  • improper
  • impudent
  • impure
  • in pain
  • inadequate
  • inadequately
  • inappropriately
  • incapacitated
  • incomplete
  • inconsiderate
  • inconsolable
  • incorrect
  • incorrectly
  • indecency
  • indecent
  • indecently
  • indecorous
  • indifferent
  • indisposed
  • ineffective
  • ineffectual
  • infamous
  • infantile
  • infectious
  • infective
  • inferior
  • inferiorly
  • infernal
  • infirm
  • inimical
  • iniquitous
  • iniquitousness
  • iniquity
  • injured
  • injurious
  • inoperative
  • insidious
  • insolent
  • insufficient
  • insufficiently
  • insurgent
  • intense
  • interdicted
  • intimidating
  • intolerably
  • intractable
  • invalid
  • invidious
  • irreverent
  • irritating
  • jaundiced
  • jealous
  • jejune
  • jeopardizing
  • joyless
  • junky
  • juvenile
  • kiddish
  • killer
  • kitsch
  • kitschy
  • knavish
  • lachrymose
  • lacking
  • lackluster
  • lame
  • lesser
  • lethal
  • libertine
  • light-headed
  • loathsome
  • loose
  • lousily
  • lousy
  • low
  • low-grade
  • low-minded
  • low-rent
  • low-spirited
  • lugubrious
  • malefaction
  • malevolent
  • malicious
  • malign
  • malignant
  • marred
  • meager
  • meagerly
  • meagre
  • mean
  • mean-spirited
  • meanly
  • mediocre
  • melancholic
  • melancholy
  • menacing
  • meretricious
  • mighty
  • mildewy
  • misbehaving
  • mischievous
  • miscreant
  • miserable
  • miserably
  • miserly
  • moldering
  • moldy
  • monkeying
  • monkeyish
  • morbid
  • morose
  • mournful
  • murky
  • mutinous
  • nasty
  • naughtily
  • naughty
  • nauseated
  • nauseating
  • nauseous
  • nefarious
  • negative
  • niggardly
  • nocuous
  • noisome
  • nonbinding
  • nonvalid
  • noxious
  • nugatory
  • null
  • null and void
  • objectionable
  • obnoxious
  • obscene
  • obstreperous
  • odious
  • odiously
  • off
  • offensive
  • ominous
  • on the blink
  • opprobrious
  • ornery
  • ostentatious
  • out of sorts
  • outlawed
  • painful
  • paltry
  • parlous
  • pathetic
  • peaked
  • peaky
  • perilous
  • pernicious
  • perverse
  • perversion
  • perverted
  • pervertedness
  • pestiferous
  • pestilent
  • pestilential
  • phoney
  • phony
  • pixieish
  • plaintive
  • poisonous
  • polluted
  • poor
  • poorly
  • poxy
  • prankish
  • prejudicial
  • prohibited
  • proscribed
  • puerile
  • punk
  • putrefied
  • putrefying
  • putrescent
  • putrid
  • qualmish
  • queasy
  • queazy
  • rancid
  • rancorous
  • rank
  • rascally
  • rebellious
  • recalcitrant
  • refractory
  • regretful
  • remorseful
  • repellant
  • repellent
  • reprehensible
  • reprehensibly
  • reprobate
  • repugnant
  • repulsive
  • resentful
  • restive
  • revolting
  • revulsive
  • risky
  • roguish
  • rot
  • rotten
  • rottenly
  • rotting
  • rowdy
  • rubbishy
  • rude
  • rueful
  • ruffianly
  • ruinous
  • run-down
  • sad
  • saddened
  • sassy
  • satanism
  • saturnine
  • scandalous
  • scantily
  • scantly
  • scanty
  • scathing
  • schlock
  • schlocky
  • scornful
  • scoundrelly
  • scrofulous
  • scurrility
  • scurrilous
  • scurrilousness
  • scurvy
  • seamy
  • seasick
  • second-class
  • second-rate
  • seedy
  • selfish
  • serious
  • severe
  • shabbily
  • shabby
  • shaky
  • sham
  • shameful
  • shlock
  • shlocky
  • shocking
  • shoddily
  • shoddy
  • short
  • showy
  • sick
  • sickened
  • sickening
  • sickish
  • sickly
  • sin
  • sinful
  • sinfulness
  • sinister
  • skimp
  • skimpily
  • skimpy
  • sleazily
  • sleazy
  • slipshod
  • sly
  • snakelike
  • snide
  • snotty
  • somber
  • sombre
  • sordid
  • sorrowful
  • sorry
  • sour
  • soured
  • sourish
  • spare
  • sparely
  • spiteful
  • splashy
  • spoiled
  • squalor
  • squeamish
  • stingily
  • stingy
  • stinky
  • suboptimal
  • subpar
  • substandard
  • sucky
  • suicidal
  • sullen
  • sunk
  • supercheap
  • swank
  • swanky
  • symptomatic
  • taboo
  • tabu
  • tacky
  • tainted
  • tawdry
  • tearful
  • terrible
  • terribly
  • thoughtless
  • threatening
  • tough
  • toxic
  • transgressing
  • trashily
  • trashy
  • troubled
  • troublesome
  • troubling
  • trumpery
  • turned
  • ugly
  • ultracheap
  • unacceptable
  • unacceptably
  • unauthorized
  • unbearably
  • unbecoming
  • unclean
  • uncongenial
  • uncontrollable
  • uncouth
  • under par
  • under the weather
  • uneasy
  • unethical
  • unfavorable
  • unfortunate
  • unfriendly
  • ungodly
  • ungovernable
  • unhappy
  • unhealthful
  • unhealthy
  • unholy
  • unkind
  • unkindly
  • unlawful
  • unlovely
  • unloving
  • unmannerly
  • unpalatable
  • unpleasant
  • unpleasing
  • unprincipled
  • unquiet
  • unrighteous
  • unruly
  • unsafe
  • unsatisfactorily
  • unsatisfactory
  • unsavory
  • unscrupulous
  • unseemly
  • unsound
  • unspeakable
  • unspeakably
  • unsuitably
  • untoward
  • unwelcome
  • unwell
  • unwholesome
  • upset
  • upsetting
  • useless
  • valueless
  • venomous
  • vexatious
  • vexing
  • vicious
  • vile
  • vilely
  • vileness
  • villainous
  • villainy
  • vindictive
  • virulent
  • vitiated
  • vitriolic
  • void
  • vulgar
  • vulgarly
  • wack
  • waggish
  • wailing
  • wanting
  • wayward
  • weak
  • weakly
  • weeping
  • wicked
  • wickedness
  • wild
  • wilful
  • willful
  • woebegone
  • woeful
  • woozy
  • worried
  • worthless
  • wretched
  • wretchedly
  • wrong
  • wrongheaded
  • yucky
  • yukky

galled

  • abraded
  • aching
  • affronted
  • aggravated
  • agitated
  • angered
  • angry
  • anguished
  • annoyed
  • antagonized
  • ate
  • au naturel
  • awkward
  • badgered
  • baited
  • ballyragged
  • bearish
  • bedeviled
  • bilious
  • bit
  • bitter
  • blistered
  • bothered
  • bristly
  • broke down
  • broke up
  • bruised
  • bugged
  • bullyragged
  • burned
  • burnt
  • cantankerous
  • chafed
  • cheerless
  • chewed
  • choleric
  • churlish
  • comfortless
  • confused
  • convulsed
  • corraded
  • corroded
  • crabby
  • cranky
  • cross
  • cut
  • decomposed
  • deviled
  • devilled
  • disapproving
  • discomfited
  • discomforted
  • discomposed
  • disintegrated
  • displeased
  • disquieted
  • dissolved
  • distressed
  • disturbed
  • dressed
  • dyspeptic
  • embarrassed
  • enflamed
  • enraged
  • erased
  • eroded
  • exasperated
  • excoriated
  • exercised
  • exhausted
  • fatigued
  • ferocious
  • fierce
  • fiery
  • filed
  • flayed
  • frayed
  • frazzled
  • fretful
  • fretted
  • frosted
  • frustrated
  • fuming
  • furious
  • fussy
  • gnawed
  • got
  • got to
  • grated
  • grazed
  • griped
  • grouchy
  • ground
  • grumpy
  • haggled
  • hagrode
  • harassed
  • harried
  • harsh
  • hassled
  • hateful
  • heated
  • heckled
  • honed
  • hot
  • huffy
  • hurt
  • ill at ease
  • ill-humored
  • ill-tempered
  • impassioned
  • in pain
  • incensed
  • inconvenienced
  • indignant
  • inflamed
  • infuriated
  • insulted
  • irascible
  • irate
  • ireful
  • irked
  • irritable
  • irritated
  • itched
  • mad
  • maddened
  • miffed
  • miserable
  • nagged
  • narked
  • nervous
  • nettled
  • nibbled
  • nude
  • offended
  • open
  • outraged
  • pained
  • pared
  • peeled
  • peeved
  • peevish
  • persecuted
  • perturbed
  • pestered
  • petulant
  • pinpricked
  • piqued
  • pissed
  • pissed off
  • plagued
  • provoked
  • put out
  • raging
  • rankled
  • rasped
  • reduced
  • resentful
  • restless
  • riled
  • roiled
  • roused
  • rubbed
  • rubbed out
  • rubbed the wrong way
  • ruffled
  • sandblasted
  • sandpapered
  • scoured
  • scraped
  • scratched
  • scuffed
  • scunnered
  • self-conscious
  • sensitive
  • sharpened
  • shaved
  • shirty
  • skinned
  • smarting
  • snappish
  • snuffy
  • sore
  • spited
  • splenetic
  • steaming
  • stiff
  • storming
  • strained
  • suffering
  • sulky
  • sullen
  • teased
  • teed off
  • tested
  • testy
  • tired
  • tormented
  • tortured
  • touchy
  • tried
  • troubled
  • undid
  • uneasy
  • unhinged
  • unsettled
  • upset
  • uptight
  • vexed
  • vext
  • weary
  • whetted
  • wore
  • wore on
  • wore out
  • worn
  • worried
  • wounded
  • wracked
  • wrathful
  • wretched

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