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Unspoiled

Definition: Unspoiled

Unspoiled

Adjective

1. 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: Unspoiled

Synonyms: good (adj), uncorrupted (adj), unspoilt (adj). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Unspoiled

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Yes! An unspoiled virgin! (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Unspoiled

DomainTitle

Books

  • Discovering Britain: An Illustrated Guide to More Than 500 Selected Locations in Britain's Unspoiled Countryside (reference)

  • Kianza's Congo: A Portrait of Life in Unspoiled Africa (reference)

  • Nicaragua Guide: Spectacular and Unspoiled (1995) (reference)

  • Northwest: Four Inspirational Love Stories from the Rugged and Unspoiled Northwest Territory (reference)

  • Raising a Happy, Unspoiled Child (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • Classical Visions: Chopin - Unspoiled Worlds (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Unspoiled

AuthorQuotation

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.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Unspoiled

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Spoken Usage: Unspoiled

SpeakerPhrase(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.

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Speeches: Unspoiled

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Lyndon B. Johnson

1963-1969We 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.

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Usage Frequency: Unspoiled

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%6541,645

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Unspoiled

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

unspoiled

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Unspoiled

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

   

Portuguese

  

espaço natural (area of unspoiled nature). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

неиспорченный (incorrupt, unspoilt). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

nerazmažen (unspoilt), nepokvaren (incorrupt, unadulterated, unspoilt, untainted). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

incorrupto (chaste, incorrupt, undecayed, undefiled, unspoilt). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

ofördärvad (unspoilt). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

bozulmamış (intact, inviolate, pristine, sound, unbroken, unimpaired, unsophisticated, unspoilt, untainted, untouched), şımarmamış (unspoilt), çürümemiş (unspoilt). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

syrdambitin. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

không thối (unspoilt), không bị cướp phá không hư (unspoilt). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Unspoiled

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

incorrupti, incorruptum. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Rhyming with "Unspoiled"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "unspoiled" (pronounced unspoy"ld)
5-s p oy" l dspoiled.
3-oy" l dboiled, broiled, coiled, embroiled, foiled, oiled, recoiled, roiled, soiled, toiled, uncoiled.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Unspoiled

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.

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Alternative Orthography: Unspoiled


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)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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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)

&#85 &#110 &#115 &#112 &#111 &#105 &#108 &#101 &#100

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

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INDEX

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


  

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