Adjective
spoilt (comparative more spoilt, superlative most spoilt) (British spelling)
- (UK) Having lost its original value
- Of food, that has deteriorated to the point of no longer being usable or edible.
The food went spoilt in the heat and had to be thrown away.
- (of a person, usually a child) Having a selfish or greedy character, especially due to pampering
The child was so spoilt that she expected everything to be done for her.
After years of luxury, he became a spoilt brat.
Usage notes
- Much less common than spoiled in US.
- Much more common than "spoiled" in UK.
- About as common as "spoiled" in Australia.
Translations
having lost its original value
of food: rendered unusable or inedible
- Arabic: مُدَلَّل (mudallal)
- Azerbaijani: xarab
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 腐敗 / 腐败 (zh) (fǔbài), 壞 / 坏 (zh) (huài)
- Cimbrian: damaal
- Czech: zkažený (cs)
- Dutch: bedorven (nl)
- Finnish: pilaantunut (fi); pilalla (fi) (adverb)
- French: gâté (fr), pourri (fr) m
- German: verdorben (de)
- Greek: χαλασμένος (el) (chalasménos), αλλοιωμένος (el) (alloioménos)
- Hungarian: romlott (hu)
- Italian: guastato (it)
- Japanese: 腐った (くさった, kusatta)
- Korean: 썩은 (sseogeun)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: utgått (no), råtten (no)
- Ottoman Turkish: چوروك (çürük)
- Persian: خراب (fa) (xarâb), تباه (fa) (tabâh), تلیده (talide), ترشیده (fa) (toršide)
- Portuguese: estragado (pt)
- Russian: испо́рченный (ru) (ispórčennyj)
- Serbo-Croatian: покварено n, pokvareno (sh)
- Spanish: estropeado (es), podrido (es)
- Swedish: förstörd (sv), skämd (sv)
- Ukrainian: зіпсо́ваний (zipsóvanyj)
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of a child
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 寵壞 / 宠坏 (zh) (chǒnghuài), 溺愛 / 溺爱 (zh) (nì'ài)
- Czech: rozmazlený (cs)
- Dutch: verwend (nl)
- Finnish: hemmoteltu (fi), poispilattu (fi), pilattu (fi)
- French: gâté (fr) m, pourri (fr) m
- Georgian: გაფუჭებული (gapuč̣ebuli)
- German: verwöhnt (de), verzogen (de)
- Greek: κακομαθημένος (el) (kakomathiménos)
- Hungarian: elkényeztetett (hu)
- Italian: viziato (it)
- Malay: mua (ms)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: эрх (mn) (erx)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: bortskjemt
- Persian: لوس (fa) (lus), ننر (fa) (nonor)
- Portuguese: mimado (pt)
- Serbo-Croatian: размажено n, razmaženo (sh)
- Spanish: mimado (es), regalón (es), consentido (es), malcriado (es)
- Swedish: bortskämd (sv)
- Ukrainian: зіпсо́ваний (zipsóvanyj)
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