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spoiled
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spoiled
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | damaged |
| Synonyms: | bad, corrupted, harmed, injured, marred, rotten, ruined, sour, wasted |
| Main Entry: | spoil |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ruin, hurt |
| Synonyms: | blemish, damage, debase, deface, defile, demolish, depredate, desecrate, desolate, despoil, destroy, devastate, disfigure, disgrace, harm, impair, injure, make useless, mar, mess up*, muck up, pillage, plunder, prejudice, ravage, sack, smash, spoliate, squash, take apart, tarnish, trash*, undo, upset, vitiate, waste, wreck |
| Antonyms: | help |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | spoil |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | baby, indulge |
| Synonyms: | accommodate, cater to, coddle, cosset, favor, humor, kill with kindness, mollycoddle, oblige, overindulge, pamper, spoon-feed |
| Antonyms: | be indifferent, ignore, neglect |
| Main Entry: | spoil |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | decay, turn bad |
| Synonyms: | addle, become tainted, become useless, break down, crumble, curdle, decompose, deteriorate, disintegrate, go bad, go off, mildew, molder, putrefy, rot, taint, turn |
| Antonyms: | grow |
| Main Entry: | babyish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | acting like an infant |
| Synonyms: | baby, childish, foolish, immature, infantile, juvenile, kid stuff, puerile, silly, sissy, sissyish, spoiled |
| Antonyms: | grown-up, mature |
| Main Entry: | bad |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | decayed |
| Synonyms: | moldy, off, putrid, rancid, rotten, sour, spoiled |
| Notes: | badly is an adverb to describe an activity; bad is an adjective to describe a condition or state |
| Antonyms: | good, ok, undecayed |
| Main Entry: | damaged |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | broken, not working |
| Synonyms: | beat-up, bent, blemished, busted, dinged, down, flawed, flubbed, fouled up, glitched, gone, hurt, impaired, imperfect, in need of repair, in poor condition, in smithereens, injured, kaput, loused up, marred, messed up, mucked up, no go, on the blink, on the fritz, out of action, out of kilter, out of whack, run-down, screwed up, shot, snafued, spoiled, sunk, totaled, unsound |
| Antonyms: | fixed, mended, ok, perfect, repaired, unbroken, undamaged, working |
| Main Entry: | decayed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rotten, falling apart |
| Synonyms: | addled, bad, carious, carrion, corroded, decomposed, effete, gangrenous, moldered, overripe, perished, putrefied, putrescent, putrid, rank, riddled, rotted, ruined, spoiled, wasted, withered |
| Antonyms: | developing, flourishing, germinating, growing, improving, ripening |
| Main Entry: | impaired |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | injured, faulty |
| Synonyms: | broken, busted, damaged, debilitated, defective, down*, flawed, harmed, hurt, imperfect, kaput, marred, on the blink, on the fritz, spoiled, unsound |
| Antonyms: | healthy, perfect, strong |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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