different between spoiled vs improper
spoiled
English
Alternative forms
- spoilt
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sp??ld/
- Rhymes: -??ld
Verb
spoiled
- simple past tense and past participle of spoil
Adjective
spoiled (comparative more spoiled, superlative most spoiled)
- (of food) That has deteriorated to the point of no longer being usable or edible.
- (of a person, usually a child) Having a selfish or greedy character due to pampering.
Usage notes
- Much more common in the US than spoilt, while about as common as spoilt in UK.
Translations
Further reading
- spoiled at OneLook Dictionary Search
- spoiled, spoilt at Google Ngram Viewer
Anagrams
- despoil, diploes, diploës, dipoles, elopids, peloids, soliped
spoiled From the web:
- what spoiled means
- what spoiled brat means
- what spoiled chicken looks like
- what spoil fasting
- what does spoiled mean
- what do spoiled mean
improper
English
Alternative forms
- impropre (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle French impropre, from Latin improprius (“not proper”), from in- + proprius (“proper”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?m?p??p.?/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /?m?p??p.?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?m?p??.p?/
- Rhymes: -?p?(?)
Adjective
improper (comparative more improper, superlative most improper)
- unsuitable to needs or circumstances; inappropriate; inapt
- Not in keeping with conventional mores or good manners; indecent or immodest
- Not according to facts; inaccurate or erroneous
- Not consistent with established facts; incorrect
- Not properly named; See, for example, improper fraction
- (obsolete) Not specific or appropriate to individuals; general; common.
- 1608, John Fletcher The Faithful Shepherdess
- Not to be adorned with any art but such improper ones as nature is said to bestow, as singing and poetry.
- 1608, John Fletcher The Faithful Shepherdess
Synonyms
- unproper (obsolete or rare)
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
improper (third-person singular simple present impropers, present participle impropering, simple past and past participle impropered)
- (obsolete, transitive) To appropriate; to limit.
- 1565, John Jewel, letter to Thomas Harding
- He would in like manner improper and inclose the sunbeams to comfort the rich and not the poor.
- 1565, John Jewel, letter to Thomas Harding
- (obsolete) To behave improperly
Anagrams
- impropre
improper From the web:
- what improper fraction
- what improper fraction is equal to 1/2
- what improper fraction is equal to 3
- what improper fraction equal to 2(1/4)
- what improper fraction is equal to 323
- what improper means
- what improper fraction is equivalent to 3
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