Spoilt

Definition: Spoilt

Spoilt

Adjective

1. Having the character or disposition harmed by pampering or oversolicitous attention; "a spoiled child".

2. (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition; "bad meat"; "a refrigerator full of spoilt food".

3. Affected by blight--anything that mars or events growth or prosperity; "a blighted rose"; "blighted urtan districts".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "spoilt" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Synonyms: Spoilt

Crosswords: Spoilt

The Spoilt Child (1909)

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Books

• People for Lunch: Spoilt (reference)

• Spoilt (reference)

• Spoilt Children of Empire: Westerners in Shanghai and the Chinese Revolution of the 1920s (reference)

• The Spoilt City (reference)

• The Spoilt Kill (Ulverscroft Large Print Series) [LARGE PRINT] (reference)

  (more book examples)

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I am losing all my bitterness against spoilt children, my dearest Emma

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Expressions using "spoilt": blighted spoilt ♦ get spoilt ♦ spoilt child ♦ spoilt sheet. Additional references.

Beginning with "spoilt": spoilt-rotten.

Ending with "spoilt": un-spoilt.

Albanian

i prishur (addle, addled, annulled, broken, corrupt, decayed, depraved, disconcerted, flyblown, godforsaken, haywire, high, perverted, putrid, rancid, rot, rotten, sour, tainted, turned, unsound), i llastuar (cockered, petted). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فسد (be corrupted, be decayed, be decomposed, be depraved, be evil, be immoral, be marred, be pervert, be putrid, be rotten, be spoiled, be vicious, become corrupted, become decayed, become decomposed, become depraved, become evil, become immoral, become marred, become pervert, become perverted, become putrid, become rotten, become spoiled, become vicious, contaminate, corrupt, decay, decompose, degenerate, deprave, deteriorate, disintegrate, foul, go bad, impair, infect, mangle, mar, mess, mess up, misrule, putrefy, rot, spoil), ‏مدلل, ‏عفن (corrupt, decay, decompose, frowsty, fusty, mildew, mold, mould, musty, obnoxious, putrefaction, putrefy, putrid, rank, reek, rotten, septic, stale, taint). (various references)

Bulgarian 

развален (addled, bad, corrupt, depraved, disfigured, perished, rank), глезен (ankle, sissified, sissy, skittish, talus, tarsus). (various references)

Chinese 

损坏 (damaged, Damaging, spoilage, spoiled, spoiling). (various references)

Czech

zkažený (bad, corrupt, debauched, decayed, high, perverted, putrid, rotten, ruined, stale, wicked), zhýèkaný (demanding, kid glove, sybaritic), rozmazlený, neplatný (defunct, inoperative, lapsed, null, null and void, out of date, unlawful, void). (various references)

Danish

stemmesedler der er erklaeret ugyldige (cancelled ballot papers, spoilt ballot papers), ugyldige stemmesedler (cancelled ballot papers, spoilt ballot papers), makulatur (mackle, printed reclaimed paper, printer's reject, spoilt sheet, waste, waste sheet). (various references)

Dutch

van onwaarde verklaard stembiljet (cancelled ballot papers, spoilt ballot papers), rottig (nasty), ongeldig verklaarde stembiljetten (cancelled ballot papers, spoilt ballot papers), misdrukken (mackle, printed reclaimed paper, printer's reject, spoilt sheet, waste, waste sheet), misdruk (defect in printing, error, mackle, printed reclaimed paper, printer's reject, shortage, spoilt sheet, waste, waste sheet). (various references)

Finnish

turmeltunut (corrupt, damaged). (various references)

French

raté, pourri, par terre, gâché, abîmé (spoiled). (various references)

German

verzogen (badly brought up, drawn, warped), verwöhnt (daintily, discriminating, fastidious, fastidiously, regales, spoiled), verwöhnen (be good to, indulge, pamper, regale, smile upon, spoil, to regale), verderben (abase, addle, adulterate, bane, banes, barbarize, become corrupted, become depraved, become ruined, become spoiled, blight, break down, bribe, contaminate, corrupt, damage, debauch, deprave, destroy, disaster, doom, go bad, go off, going off, infect, injure, kill, Mar, molder, perdition, perditions, pervert, pollute, pollution, put off, ruin, ruination, ruining, spoil, spoiling, taint, to barbarize, to debauch, to deprave, to spoil, to taint, undoing, vitiate, vitiation, wreck), ungültig (bad, canceled, disallowed, expired, foul, illegal, inoperative, invalid, nonstandard, null, out of date, unlawful, unlawfully, void), plündern (despoil, foray, Harry, loot, looting, maraud, pillage, plunder, prey on, raid, ransack, ravage, rifle, Rob, sack, strip, to despoil), beschädigen (blemish, bruise, chip, damage, deface, injure, knock about, knock around, Mar, Mark, maul, nip, spoil, strip, to damage, to injure), Ausschuss..., Ausschuss... (various references)

Greek 

παραχαϊδεμένος, χαϊδεμένοσ (pampered, pet), χαλασμένοσ (vitiated, worn), αποτυχημένοσ (failed, wasted). (various references)

Hebrew 

מפו�'ל (denatured), מפו� ק (fondled, pampered), לקוי (blemish, defect, defective, deficiency, deficient, eclipse, failing, failure, fault, faulty, ill, imperfection, inadequacy, inadequate, shortcoming, stricken, unsound, vicious, wanting), קלוקל (corrupt, defective, inferior, poor, rotten), באוש (frowsty, malodorous, stale, stinking). (various references)

Hungarian

elrontott (crocked, hampered, waste). (various references)

Italian

viziato (daintily, faulty, vitiated), rovinato (bankrupt, kaput, subverts, washed up). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

駄駄っ子 (spoiled child, unmanageable child), 駄々っ子 (spoiled child, unmanageable child). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

� � っ�" (spoiled child, unmanageable child). (various references)

Korean 

버릇없게 기르�" (spoiled). (various references)

Manx

groblagh (corn spoilt by milling). (various references)

Pig Latin

oiltspay.(various references)

Portuguese

mimado (finicky), estragado (damaged, dilapidated, rotten, tainted, unsound), deteriorado (decayed). (various references)

Romanian

stricat (addle, bad, broken, broken down, carrion, close, corrupt, corrupted, dead, decayed, defaced, depraved, deteriorated, dilapidated, disabled, diseased, dissolute, foul, fusty, graceless, immoral, injured, loose, meretricious, niffy, out of order, perverse, polluted, rakehelly, rotten, stuffy, tainted, vicious, vitiated), cocolit, alintat. (various references)

Russian 

балованный, портить испорченный (spoiled, vitiated), испорченный (addled, corrupt, depraved, derogate, flyblown, out of order, putrid, rotten, tainted, uncound). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

proš. vreme i particip od spoil. (various references)

Spanish

pret y pp de spoil, nulo (invalid, naught, nil, null, void, zero), estropeado (blown, broken, broken down, crumpled, damaged, haywire, ruined, shop-soiled, shopworn, spoiled, torn), dañado (damaged, harmed, impaired, tacky). (various references)

Swedish

bortskämd (indulged). (various references)

Turkish

nazlı büyütülmüş, nazlı (coy, delicate, rose water, wayward), bozulmuş (abashed, broken down, cankered, contaminated, corrupt, degenerate, flyblown, gone, out, putrid, rank, ropy, ruined, unmade, upset, withered, wrecked), berbat olmuş (ruined, spoiled), berbat (abominable, abysmal, accursed, accurst, appalling, atrocious, awful, bad, badly, beastly, bum, chronic, crappy, dashed, destroyed, deuced, devilish, disgusting, dread, dreadfull, egregious, execrable, fierce, flagitious, frightful, ghastly, grotty, hell, hell of, helluva, horrible, horrid, indifferent, infamous, infernal, ropy, rotten, screwed, shocking, sickening, sticky, stinking, terrible, ungodly, unsavory, unsavoury, vicious, vile, villainous, violent, wretched), şımartılmış (spoon-fed), şımarık (perky, pert, sassy, saucy, wayward). (various references)

Ukrainian

розбещений (abandoned, bad, corrupt, debauched, degenerate, depraved, filthy, licentious, miscreant, wanton, wild), зіпсований (addle, adulterated, bad, base, corrupt, debauched, decadent, deformed, degenerate, miscreant, naughty, out of order, unsound, wrong). (various references)

Vietnamese 

đất bùn nạo vét lên (spoil). (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "spoilt": unspoilt. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Spoilt" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: solit, soult, spail, spielt, spiol, sploit, spoi, spoint, spoit. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: pilots, pistol.

-1 letter: pilot, plots, polis, posit, slipt, spilt, split, spoil, toils, topis.

-2 letters: lips, lisp, list, lits, lops, lost, loti, lots, oils, opts, piso, pits, plot, pois, pols, post, pots, silo, silt, slip, slit, slop, slot, soil, soli, spit, spot, stop, tils, tips, toil, topi, tops.

-3 letters: its, lip, lis, lit, lop, lot, oil, ops.

+1 letter: apostil, piolets, pistole, pistols, pollist, poloist, pontils, slipout, spotlit, topsail, topsoil.

+2 letters: apostils, capitols, coalpits, colpitis, copilots, diplonts, exploits, galipots, helistop, hilltops, hoplites, hospital, isopleth, loopiest, loppiest, lopstick, milepost, petioles, pilosity, pinitols, pisolite, pistoled, pistoles, plotties, poitrels, polemist, politest, politics, polities, pollists, poloists, populist, potboils, potlines, psilotic, shoplift, slipknot, slipouts, spoliate, sportily, spottily, talipots, toplines, topsails, topsoils, tripolis, unspoilt.