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 about as common as spoilt in UK.

Derived terms

• spoiled for choice
• spoiled grape juice

 

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)

• 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 Google Ngram Viewer

Anagrams

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