spoilt

/spɔil/

Thân thiện

A refrigerator full of spoilt food is being cleaned out.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Damaged or harmed in quality or character: Describes something that has been negatively affected, often due to excessive indulgence or poor conditions.
   • No longer good for use; decayed: Specifically refers to food that is no longer fresh or edible.
   • Overindulged: Describes a person, especially a child, whose character has been negatively affected by being allowed too much of what they want.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • The heavy rain spoilt our picnic plans. (The rain negatively affected our plans.)
  • Don't eat that meat; it's spoilt. (The meat is no longer edible.)
  • He is a spoilt child who always gets his way. (The child's character is harmed by overindulgence.)

Advanced Usage

• "to be spoilt for choice": To have so many good options that it is difficult to choose.
  • The menu was so extensive, I was spoilt for choice.

Variants and Related Words

• Spoil (verb): The base verb form meaning to diminish the quality, value, or pleasure of something; to decay; or to overindulge someone.
  • Too much sugar can spoil your dinner.
• Spoilage (noun): The process of decaying or the amount of material that has decayed.
  • The supermarket reduces prices to minimize spoilage.

Synonyms

• Ruined: Made unusable or worthless.
• Rotten: Decomposed, especially referring to organic matter like food.
• Pampered: Treated with excessive care and attention (can be neutral or negative).

Related Phrases (Phrasal Verbs)

Note: 'Spoilt' is primarily an adjective. The related phrasal verbs use the base verb 'spoil'. - Spoil for (something): To be very eager for something, especially a fight or argument. - He seemed to be spoiling for a confrontation.

Related Idioms

• A spoilt child: A child whose behavior is unpleasant because they have been given everything they want.
  • She acts like a spoilt child when she doesn't get her own way.
• Spare the rod and spoil the child: A saying meaning that if you do not punish a child for behaving badly, you will cause them to develop bad character. (This idiom uses the verb 'spoil').

Học thuật

Adjective

1. affected by blight; anything that mars or prevents growth or prosperity
   • a blighted rose
   • blighted urban districts
2. (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition
   • bad meat
   • a refrigerator full of spoilt food
3. having the character or disposition harmed by pampering or oversolicitous attention
   • a spoiled child

Từ đồng nghĩa

• blighted
• bad
• spoiled