Spotty

Definition: Spotty

Spotty

Adjective

1. Inconsistent in quality.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "spotty" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Synonym: Spotty

Fewness

Adjective: few; scant, scanty; thin, rare, scattered, thinly scattered, spotty, few and far between, exiguous; infrequent; rari nantes; hardly any, scarcely any; to be counted on one's fingers; reduced; Verb: unrepeated.

Crosswords: Spotty

Books

• Can You Spot the Spotty Dog (reference)

• Lilly's Ark Spotty (reference)

• My First Photo Book With Spotty Puppy (Camera Books) (reference)

• Shaggy Dogs and Spotty Dogs and Shaggy and Spotty Dogs, (reference)

• Spotty (reference)

  (more book examples)

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GOES image of North America. Weak band of rain on the eastern seaboard. Bright thunderstorm clouds extend along a frontal system from the Central Gulf Coast states through the Midwest to the eastern Great Lakes. Patchy rain clouds are over the Pacific Northwest whle spotty snow clouds blanket the northern Rocky Mountain states. Credit: NOAA in Space.

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It was spotty cotton, thick in the low places where water had stood, and bare on the high places.

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Health

Crohn's disease of the large intestine can also produce spotty bleeding. (references)

Swelling spreads, hair growth diminishes, nails become cracked, brittle, grooved, and spotty, osteoporosis becomes severe and diffuse, joints thicken, and muscles atrophy. (references)

Business

This is a new market segment without comprehensive statistics, and information is spotty and disorganized. (references)

Economic History

Jordan

As a result, except in the pharmaceuticals sector, the government's record on IPR protection remains spotty. (references)

Zimbabwe

Implementation, however, has been spotty with the price of many major commodities and food staples controlled, formally or informally, by the government (for example sugar, oil, bread, flour, dairy products and mealie meal, or ground maize), and parastatals still dominating many sectors. (references)

Political Economy

JORDAN

Enforcement action against audio/video and software piracy is improving, but remains spotty. (references)

Political Rights

Bangladesh

Local NGO's including civil society organizations deployed observers for the elections but their coverage was spotty and inconsistent. (references)

Trade

Israel

Furthermore, enforcement of local standards can be spotty, and in some cases, the standards as written clearly enable domestic goods to meet requirements more easily than imports. (references)

Travel

Thailand

In rural or remote areas cell coverage is spotty and only first class hotels have reliable land coverage. (references)

Worker Rights

Mexico

The country's record for internal union democracy and transparency was spotty. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Beginning with "spotty": spotty-bummed, spotty-faced.

Albanian

me njolla (cloudy, stained), laraman (harlequin, motley, piebald, pied, Pinto). (various references)

Arabic 

‏منقط (dappled, dotted, dotty, mottled, punctate, speckled, spotted), ‏مخربش, ‏غير مكتمل (imperfection, inchoate, patchily, short), ‏أرقط (dappled, pied, pinto, speckled, spotted). (various references)

Bulgarian 

на петна (blotchy, dapple, mottled, piebald, punctate, skewbald, speckled, splotchy, spotted), пъпчив (pimpled, pimply, pustulate, pustulous). (various references)

Chinese 

多斑点. (various references)

Czech

uhrovitý, flekatý (stained). (various references)

Danish

retikulær bikagelunge (reticular spotty lung). (various references)

Farsi 

پرازلکه , متناوب (Alternate, Alternating, Alternative, Continual, Intermittent, Jerky, Periodic, Stagger), چنددرمیان , الوده (Septic, Unclean). (various references)

Finnish

täplikäs (dotted, speckled, spotted). (various references)

French

piqueté, intermittent (sporadic), incomplet, boutonneux, � pois (spotted). (various references)

German

pickelig (pimply). (various references)

Greek 

στικτόσ (mottled, punctate, spotted), ανώμαλοσ (aberrant, abnormal, anomalous, bumpy, irregular, rough, rugged, scraggly, uneven), ανομοιογενήσ (heterogeneous, mixed). (various references)

Hebrew 

מ� ומר (dotted, flecked, mottled, speckled, spotted, striped, variegated), לא יציב (groggy, inconstant, shaky, unsettled, unstable, unsteady), לא אחי�". (various references)

Hungarian

pettyes (brindled, dappled, eyespotted, freckled, mottled, pied, Pinto, polka-dotted, punctate, speckled, spotted, tabby), foltos (blobby, blotchy, blurry, flawy, foxed, foxy, freckled, mottled, Pinto, sloppy, smeary, smudgy, splodgy, spotted, stained), mocskos (begrimed, drossy, filthy, foulmouthed, grimy, messy, ribald, scurrilous, scuzzy, sleazo, sleazy, snuffy, sordid, squalid, stinky). (various references)

Italian

macchiato (dappled, patchy, smudgy, soiled, spotted). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

跛行景気 (spotty economic boom). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

は�"うけいき (spotty economic boom). (various references)

Manx

spohttagh (pock-marked, spotted), breck (brindle, brown trout, chequered, dapple-grey, dotty, mackerel, mottled, piebald, pied, pocked, speckle; trout-coloured, speckled, spot, spotted, tartan, trout, variegated). (various references)

Pig Latin

ottyspay

Portuguese

sarapintado (mottled, pepper-and-salt, piebald, pied, spotted), pintalgado (mottled, pepper-and-salt, pied, spotted), irregular (atypical, bumpy, catchy, crenelated, disorderly, erratic, fitful, inequable, informal, inordinate, jaggy, jerky, joggly, jolty, knockabout, lacerated, lawless, occasional, ragged, rough, scratchy, snatchy, unequable, unequal, uneven, wayward), desigual (different, discriminatory, disparate, hackly, incommensurate, inequable, joggly, lacerated, lopsided, one-sided, patchy, ragged, rough, rugged, scratchy, shifting, snatchy, unequable, unequal, uneven), cheio de sinais, cheio de manchas. (various references)

Russian 

пятнистый (brindled, dappled, patchy, pinto, punctate, splotchy, spotted). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pegav (freckled, punctate, speckled, spotted), neorganizovan (disorganized, unorganized), nedosledan (inconsecutive, inconsequent, inconsequential, unconforming). (various references)

Spanish

manchado (dirties, dirty, smudges, smudgy, soiled, splotchy, spotted, stained, tarnished), lleno de manchas (smudgy), con granos (pimpled, pimply). (various references)

Swedish

ojämn (bumpy, fitful, ignorant, inequable, irregular, jagged, jaggy, joggly, odd, patchy, ragged, rough, streaky, unequal, uneven), fläckig (blotched, dapple, foxy, mealy, mottled, piebald, pied, punctate, soiled, spotted). (various references)

Turkish

sivilceli (pimpled, pimply), puantiyeli (polka dot, spotted), puanlı (dappled, spotted), noktalı (dotted, Dotty, punctated, spotted), lekeli (blotchy, clouded, dappled, mackled, maculated, smeary, smudgy, splashy, splotchy, spotted, stained, stigmatic, tainted), benekli (brindled, dappled, dotted, Dotty, maculated, mottled, piebald, pied, punctate, roan, speckled, splotchy, spotted), aynı kalitede olmayan. (various references)

Ukrainian

різноманітний (chequered, divers, diverse, diversified, diversiform, manifold, multifarious, multifold, multiform, multitudinous, omnifarious, omnigenous, protean, varicolored, varicoloured, variegated), прищуватий (pimpled, pimply), плямистий (dappled, maculated, mailed, ocellated, patchy, punctate, speckled, spotted). (various references)

Vietnamese 

lốm đốm không đ�"ng đều, không đ�"ng nhất (heterogeneous, inhomogeneous), có đốm (freaked). (various references)

Misspellings

"Spotty" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: scotty, shotty, sotty, spooty, spott, spoty, spouty, stoty. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: potsy, potty, stopt, typos.

-2 letters: opts, post, posy, pots, spot, stop, tops, tost, tots, toys, typo.

-3 letters: ops, opt, pot, sop, sot, soy, spy, sty, top, tot, toy.

-4 letters: op, os, oy, so, to, yo.

+2 letters: pyrostat, spottily.

+3 letters: asymptote, autotypes, hypnotist, posterity, pyrostats, stenotype, stenotypy, tippytoes, topotypes.

+4 letters: asymptotes, asymptotic, autotypies, hypnotists, hypostatic, lectotypes, osteopathy, polytheist, positivity, prototypes, puttyroots, somatotype, stenotyped, stenotypes, stereotype, stereotypy, toponymist, typologist.

+5 letters: hepatocytes, hospitality, hypostatize, impetuosity, lithophytes, lithotripsy, osteoplasty, photosystem, phytosterol, polytheists, postnatally, postpuberty, pyrrhotites, somatotypes, spontaneity, steatopygia, steatopygic, stenotypies, stenotyping, stenotypist, stereotyped, stereotyper, stereotypes, stereotypic, stipulatory, symptomatic, toponymists, tryptophans, typologists.