spoiled

English

Alternative forms

• spoilt

Pronunciation

• 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, 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

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

Anagrams

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