spotty as an adjective: - 1
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spotty
adjective
1 spotty
Having spots or patches (small areas of contrasting color or texture):
— The wall had a spotty speckled effect.
synonyms: patched, spotted.
Roget 103:
few;
scant,
scanty;
thin,
rare,
scattered,
thinly scattered,
spotty,
few and far between,
exiguous;
infrequent
etc.
137;
rari nantes [Lat.];
hardly any,
scarcely any;
to be counted on one's fingers;
reduced
etc.
v.;
unrepeated†.
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Roget 440:
variegated
etc.
v.;
many-colored,
many-hued;
divers-colored,
party-colored;
dichromatic,
polychromatic;
bicolor†,
tricolor,
versicolor†;
of all the colors of the rainbow,
of all manner of colors;
kaleidoscopic.
iridescent;
opaline†,
opalescent;
prismatic,
nacreous,
pearly,
shot,
gorge de pigeon,
chatoyant†;
irisated†,
pavonine†.
pied,
piebald;
motley;
mottled,
marbled;
pepper and salt,
paned,
dappled,
clouded,
cymophanous†.
mosaic,
tesselated,
plaid;
tortoise shell
etc.
n..
spotted,
spotty;
punctated†,
powdered;
speckled
etc.
v.;
freckled,
flea-bitten,
studded;
flecked,
fleckered†;
striated,
barred,
veined;
brinded†,
brindled;
tabby;
watered;
grizzled;
listed;
embroidered
etc.
v.;
daedal†;
naevose†,
stipiform†;
strigose†,
striolate†.
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Polish: łaciasty, łaciaty
2 spotty
Lacking consistency:
— The golfer hit the ball well but his putting was spotty.
synonyms: scratchy, uneven.
Moby thesaurus: bad, bespangled, bespeckled, blotched, blotchy, brindled, broken, broken off, capricious, careening, catchy, cheeseparing, chinchy, chintzy, chopped-off, choppy, dappled, decousu, desultory, deviative, dirty, disconnected, discontinued, discontinuous, discrete, disjunctive, dotted, dotty, eccentric, episodic, erratic, exiguous, fitful, flea-bitten, flecked, fleckered, flickering, fluctuating, foxed, frecked, freckle-faced, freckled, freckly, guttering, halting, herky-jerky, heteroclite, immethodical, incoherent, inconstant, infrequent, intermittent, intermitting, interrupted, irregular, jagged, jerky, lurching, macular, maculate, maculated, marked, meager, miserly, motley, mottled, niggardly, noncontinuous, nonlinear, nonsequential, nonserial, nonuniform, on-again-off-again, parenthetic, patchy, peppered, piddling, piebald, pied, pimpled, pimply, pocked, pockmarked, pocky, pointille, pointillistic, polka-dot, poor, punctated, rambling, rare, rough, scant, scanty, scarce, scattered, scrappy, scrimping, scrimpy, seldom met with, seldom seen, skewbald, skimping, skimpy, slim, snatchy, soiled, spangled, sparse, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spastic, spattered, specked, speckled, speckledy, speckly, splashed, splattered, splotched, splotchy, sporadic, spotted, sprinkled, staggering, stained, stingy, stippled, studded, suspended, thin, tight, uncertain, unconnected, unequal, uneven, unjoined, unmethodical, unmetrical, unregular, unrhythmical, unsettled, unsteady, unsuccessive, unsystematic, variable, veering, wandering, wavering, wobbling, wobbly ... show more.
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