spotty

Speech parts

1. spotty - Noun

2. spotty - Adjective

3. spotty - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Full of spots; marked with spots.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

spotted uneven speckled irregular inconsistent sporadic patched patchy mottled scratchy dappled freckled splotchy pied brindle
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Antonyms

even continued normal regular uniform unsullied
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Phrases with the word

spotty line spotty memory spotty area

Derivatives

spottier spottiest

Examples

I'd thought it would be something like King's Road [London], only more. Somehow I expected them all to own their own little shops. I expected them to all be nice and clean and friendly and happy ... (on the contrary, I discovered them to be) hideous, spotty little teenagers. George Harrison

Poor old Spotty Muldoon. He thought of splitting the atom the other day. If only he could have had the idea about thirty years ago, he'd have made a bloody fortune. Peter Cook

Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I've had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of fundamentalist Islam... and I'm not happy to be right in all of those cases. David Brin

His home the Western giant smiles, And twirls the spotty globe to find it This little speck, the British Isles 'T is but a freckle,never mind it. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

I expected them to all be nice and clean and friendly and happy ... (on the contrary, I discovered them to be) hideous, spotty little teenagers. George Harrison

I hate tricky facial hair. If your facial hair is too spotty in places, shave. Just forget about it. Tom Ford

Close letter words and terms

spottish spottle spotto spotty line spotty memory spotweld