Word Meanings - SPOILER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who spoils; a plunderer; a pillager; a robber; a despoiler. 2. One who corrupts, mars, or renders useless.

Related words: (words related to SPOILER)

• PLUNDERER
  One who plunders or pillages.
• SPOILSMAN
  One who serves a cause or a party for a share of the spoils; in United States politics, one who makes or recognizes a demand for public office on the ground of partisan service; also, one who sanctions such a policy in appointments to the public
• ROBBERY
  The crime of robbing. See Rob, v. t., 2. Note: Robbery, in a strict sense, differs from theft, as it is effected by force or intimidation, whereas theft is committed by stealth, or privately. Syn. -- Theft; depredation; spoliation; despoliation;
• SPOILSMONGER
  One who promises or distributes public offices and their emoluments as the price of services to a party or its leaders.
• USELESS
  Having, or being of, no use; unserviceable; producing no good end; answering no valuable purpose; not advancing the end proposed; unprofitable; ineffectual; as, a useless garment; useless pity. Not to sit idle with so great a gift Useless,
• PILLAGER
  One who pillages. Pope.
• ROBBER
  One who robs; in law, one who feloniously takes goods or money from the person of another by violence or by putting him in fear. Some roving robber calling to his fellows. Milton. Syn. -- Thief; depredator; despoiler; plunderer; pillager; rifler;
• DESPOILER
  One who despoils.
• MUSELESS
  Unregardful of the Muses; disregarding the power of poetry; unpoetical. Milton.
• SPOUSELESS
  Destitute of a spouse; unmarried.
• HOUSELESS
  Destitute of the shelter of a house; shelterless; homeless; as, a houseless wanderer.
• CAUSELESS
  1. Self-originating; uncreated. 2. Without just or sufficient reason; groundless. My fears are causeless and ungrounded. Denham.
• SEA ROBBER
  A pirate; a sea rover.
• HOUSELESSNESS
  The state of being houseless.
• EXCUSELESS
  Having no excuse; not admitting of excuse or apology. Whillock.
• CAUSELESSNESS
  The state of being causeless.