Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

Definition: Unspoiled |
UnspoiledAdjective1. Not left to spoil; "the meat is still good". 2. Not decayed or decomposed. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unspoiled" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1719. (references) |
Synonyms: UnspoiledSynonyms: good (adj), uncorrupted (adj), unspoilt (adj). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Yes! An unspoiled virgin! (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title | ||
Books |
| ||
Theater & Movies | |||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Oscar Wilde | Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Cayman Islands | Unspoiled beaches, duty-free shopping, scubadiving, and deep-sea fishing draw almost a million visitors to the islands each year. (references) |
Botswana | Botswana's Central Kalahari Game Reserve also offers good game viewing and some of the most remote and unspoiled wilderness in southern Africa. (references) | |
Liberia | Forestry: The eastern part of the country contains the most unspoiled region of the Upper Guinea Forest, a high priority conservation area due to the large number of endemic mammal species. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Marlo Thomas | They're very hard working. They're totally unspoiled. I hadn't been on in a few years and I was surprised after all the hoopla, and all the money they're making, and all that, and all the success that they have, they haven't changed one bit. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | We hope to make the Potomac a model of beauty here in the Capital, and preserve unspoiled stretches of some of our waterways with a Wild Rivers bill. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Unspoiled" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unspoiled" is used about 65 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 65 | 41,645 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
unspoiled | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "unspoiled"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i paprishur (incorruptible, irrefrangible, irrevocable, pristine, undecayable, undestroyed, unspoilt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | неразглезен (unspoilt), неразвален (incorrupt, unspoilt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 未损坏 (undamaged). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | panenský (maidenlike, virgin, virginal), nezkažený (good, pure, pure-minded, unspoilt), nerozmazlený, nedotèený (intact, inviolate, undisturbed, untouched). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | naturområde (area of unspoiled nature, undisturbed ground). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | natuurlijke ruimte (area of unspoiled nature), natuur en landschap (area of unspoiled nature, the landscape and the countryside), gezond en onbedorven leefmilieu (healthy and unspoiled environment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | turmelematon (undamaged, unspoilt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | intact (unbroken, undazzled, unharmed, unsolved). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | unverdorben (fresh, pure, pure-minded, uncontaminated, uncorrupted, undecayed, unspoilt, untainted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | romlatlan (taintless, untainted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | spazio naturale (area of unspoiled nature), ambiente sano e non deturpato (healthy and unspoiled environment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oiledunspay espaço natural (area of unspoiled nature). (various references) неиспорченный (incorrupt, unspoilt). (various references) nerazmažen (unspoilt), nepokvaren (incorrupt, unadulterated, unspoilt, untainted). (various references) incorrupto (chaste, incorrupt, undecayed, undefiled, unspoilt). (various references) ofördärvad (unspoilt). (various references) bozulmamış (intact, inviolate, pristine, sound, unbroken, unimpaired, unsophisticated, unspoilt, untainted, untouched), şımarmamış (unspoilt), çürümemiş (unspoilt). (various references) syrdambitin. (various references) không thối (unspoilt), không bị cướp phá không hư (unspoilt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | incorrupti, incorruptum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "unspoiled" (pronounced unspoy"ld) |
| 5 | -s p oy" l d | spoiled. |
| 3 | -oy" l d | boiled, broiled, coiled, embroiled, foiled, oiled, recoiled, roiled, soiled, toiled, uncoiled. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-i-l-n-o-p-s-u" | |
-1 letter: delusion, euploids, insouled, unpoised, unsoiled. | |
-2 letters: despoil, diploes, dipoles, elusion, epsilon, euploid, indoles, lineups, loudens, lupines, nodules, pileous, pinoles, pulsion, spindle, spinule, splined, spoiled, unipods, unoiled, unpiled, unpiles, unposed, unsolid, upsilon. | |
-3 letters: diploe, dipole, dispel, donsie, eloins, ensoul, indole, indols, indues, insole, insoul, lesion, lineup, lisped, lodens, louden, louies, louped, loupen, loupes, loused. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-i-l-n-o-p-s-u" | |
+1 letter: aneuploids, unpolished. | |
+3 letters: aneuploidies, nucleocapsid. | |
+4 letters: compendiously, depopulations, nucleocapsids, plenitudinous, splendiferous. | |
+5 letters: conceptualised, polybutadienes, polyneuritides, reduplications. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 73 70 6F 69 6C 65 64 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
|
| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
|
| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
|
| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
|
Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. ... .--. --- .. .-.. . -.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
|
Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01110011 01110000 01101111 01101001 01101100 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n s p o i l e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0073 0070 006F 0069 006C 0065 0064 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
|
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)558085828175787170 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Quotations: Spoken 8. Quotations: Speeches | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Translations: Ancient | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Orthography 16. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.