spoiled

spoiled

English

Alternative forms

• spoilt

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spɔɪld/

• Audio (UK)

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• Rhymes: -ɔɪld

Verb

spoiled

1. simple past tense 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 about as common as spoilt in UK.

Translations

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

Belarusian: сапсу́ты (sapsúty), сапсо́ваны (sapsóvany) Galician: estragado (gl), picado German: verdorben (de) Italian: avariato (it) Mbyá Guaraní: aguino Norwegian: Bokmål: bedervet (no) Portuguese: estragado (pt) Swedish: skämd (sv) Russian: испо́рченный (ru) (ispórčennyj) 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 Italian: viziato (it) Malay: mua Norwegian: Bokmål: bortskjemt Persian: لوس‎ (fa) (lus), ننر‎ (fa) (nonor) Portuguese: mimado 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 Turkish: şımarık (tr) Ukrainian: розпе́щений (rozpéščenyj), розбе́щений (rozbéščenyj), розпу́щений (rozpúščenyj)

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• spoiled at OneLook Dictionary Search
• spoiled, spoilt at Google Ngram Viewer

Anagrams

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