spoiled

English

Alternative forms

spoilt

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -ɔɪld

Verb

spoiled

simple past tense and past participle of spoil

Adjective

spoiled (comparative more spoiled, superlative most spoiled)

Of food, that has deteriorated to the point of no longer being usable or edible.
(of a person, usually a child) Having a selfish or greedy character due to pampering.

Usage notes

Much more common in US than "spoilt".
About as common as "spoilt" in UK.

Translations

of a child

Chinese:
Mandarin: 寵壞 (zh), 宠坏 (zh) (chǒnghuài), 溺愛 (zh), 溺爱 (zh) (nì'ài)
Czech: rozmazlený
Danish: forkælet
Dutch: verwend (nl)
Finnish: hemmoteltu (fi), poispilattu, pilattu (fi)
French: gâté (fr) m, pourri (fr) m
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
Serbo-Croatian: размажено n (razmaženo)
Spanish: mimado (es) m, regalón (es), consentido (es), malcriado (es)
Swedish: bortskämd (sv)
Ukrainian: зіпсований (zipsóvanyj)

Further reading

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Anagrams

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

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