spoiled

Thân thiện

The milk in the carton has spoiled.

Definition

Adjective: 1. No longer good to eat; decayed: Used to describe food that has become unfit for consumption, typically due to age, bacteria, or improper storage. 2. (Of a person, especially a child) having a character harmed by excessive indulgence: Used to describe someone, often a child, who is selfish, demanding, or ill-behaved because they have been given everything they want and have not been taught discipline or consideration for others.

Usage Examples

• Adjective (Food):
  • We had to throw away the spoiled milk.
  • The hot weather caused the fruit to spoil quickly.
• Adjective (Person):
  • The spoiled child threw a tantrum when he didn't get the toy.
  • She was accused of being spoiled because her parents never said no to her.

Advanced Usage

• "Spoiled for choice": An idiom meaning to have so many good options to choose from that it is difficult to decide.
  • With so many excellent restaurants on this street, you're spoiled for choice.

Variants and Related Words

• Spoilt: (Adjective) A common British English variant of "spoiled" with the same meanings.
  • The meat had gone spoilt. / He's a spoilt brat.
• Spoil: (Verb) The root verb meaning to decay or to harm the character of someone by overindulgence.
  • Too much sun will spoil the paint. / Don't spoil your dinner by eating candy.

Synonyms

• For food: Rotten, decayed, bad, off, putrid.
• For a person: Pampered, overindulged, coddled, bratty.

Related Idioms

• "Spoil someone rotten": To indulge someone excessively.
  • Her grandparents spoil her rotten.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition
   • bad meat
   • a refrigerator full of spoilt food
2. having the character or disposition harmed by pampering or oversolicitous attention
   • a spoiled child

Từ đồng nghĩa

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