spoiled

English

Alternative forms

• spoilt

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spɔɪld/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɔɪld

Verb

spoiled

1. simple past and past participle of spoil

Adjective

spoiled (comparative more spoiled, superlative most spoiled)

1. (of food) That has deteriorated to the point of no longer being usable or edible.
2. (of a person) The state of being heavily pampered.
3. (of a person, usually a child) Having a selfish or greedy character due to pampering.

Usage notes

• Much more common in the US than spoilt, while much less common than spoilt in UK.
• About as common as "spoilt" in Australia.

Derived terms

• spoiled for choice
• spoiled grape juice
• spoiled rotten

Translations

of food, that has deteriorated to the point of no longer being usable or edible

Arabic: فَاسِد (fāsid) Gulf Arabic: خربان m (ḵarbān) Hijazi Arabic: خربان m (ḵarbān) South Levantine Arabic: خربان m (ḵarbān), فاسد m (fāsid) Belarusian: сапсу́ты (sapsúty), сапсо́ваны (sapsóvany) Galician: estragado (gl), picado (gl) German: verdorben (de) Italian: avariato (it) Mbyá Guaraní: aguino Norwegian: Bokmål: bedervet (no) Polish: zepsuty (pl) Portuguese: estragado (pt) Russian: испо́рченный (ru) (ispórčennyj) Swedish: skämd (sv) Turkish: bozuk (tr) Ukrainian: зіпсо́ваний (zipsóvanyj)

(of a person, usually a child) having a selfish or greedy character due to pampering

Belarusian: распе́шчаны (raspjéščany), зба́лаваны (zbálavany), распу́шчаны (raspúščany) Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can Cherokee: ᎤᏲᏨᎢ (uyotsvi) Chinese: Mandarin: 寵壞 / 宠坏 (zh) (chǒnghuài), 溺愛 / 溺爱 (zh) (nì'ài) Czech: rozmazlený Danish: forkælet Dutch: verwend (nl) Finnish: hemmoteltu (fi), poispilattu (fi), pilattu (fi) French: gâté (fr), pourri (fr) Galician: malcriado Georgian: გაფუჭებული (gapuč̣ebuli) German: verwöhnt (de), verzogen (de) Greek: κακομαθημένος (el) (kakomathiménos) Hungarian: elkényeztetett (hu) Italian: viziato (it) Malay: mua (ms) Norwegian: Bokmål: bortskjemt Persian: لوس (fa) (lus), ننر (fa) (nonor) Portuguese: mimado (pt) Russian: избало́ванный (ru) (izbalóvannyj), бало́ванный (ru) (balóvannyj), распу́щенный (ru) (raspúščennyj) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: размажен Roman: razmažen (sh) Spanish: mimado (es), regalón (es), consentido (es), malcriado (es) Swedish: bortskämd (sv), bortklemad (sv) Turkish: şımarık (tr) Ukrainian: розпе́щений (rozpéščenyj), розбе́щений (rozbéščenyj), розпу́щений (rozpúščenyj)

Further reading

• “spoiled”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• spoiled, spoilt at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.

Anagrams

• despoil, diploes, diploës, dipoles, elopids, peloids, soliped