Online dictionaryOnline dictionary
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Spotted   /spˈɑtəd/  /spˈɑtɪd/   Listen
Spotted

adjective
1.
Having spots or patches (small areas of contrasting color or texture).  Synonyms: patched, spotty.  "The wall had a spotty speckled effect" , "A black-and-white spotted cow"



Spot

verb
(past & past part. spotted; pres. part. spotting)
1.
Catch sight of.  Synonyms: descry, espy, spy.
2.
Detect with the senses.  Synonyms: discern, distinguish, make out, pick out, recognise, recognize, tell apart.  "I can't make out the faces in this photograph"
3.
Mar or impair with a flaw.  Synonym: blemish.
4.
Make a spot or mark onto.  Synonyms: blob, blot, fleck.
5.
Become spotted.
6.
Mark with a spot or spots so as to allow easy recognition.



Related searches:


1  2     Next

Words per page:

WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University








Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words



Share |
Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar





"Spotted" Quotes from Famous Books



... pools of water multiplied. The ground gradually became softer, and the feet sank in it. Hamilcar did not turn back. He went on still at their head; and his horse, which was yellow-spotted like a dragon, advanced into the mire flinging froth around him, and with great straining of the loins. Night—a moonless light—fell. A few cried out that they were about to perish; he snatched their arms ...
— Salammbo • Gustave Flaubert

... an airline flight attendant spotted a passenger lighting a match. The crew and passengers quickly subdued the man, who had been trained by al Qaeda and was armed with explosives. The people on that plane were alert and, as a result, likely saved nearly 200 lives. And tonight we welcome and thank flight attendants ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various

... floury-white up to the elbows. She was leaning over the dough-trough, plunging her fists furiously into the spongy mass, when she heard a step on the porch. Although her gown was pinned up, leaving half of her short, striped petticoat visible, and a blue and white spotted handkerchief concealed her dark hair, Sally did not stop to think of that. She rushed into the front room, just as a gaunt female figure passed the window, at the sight of which she clapped her hands so that the flour flew in a little white cloud, ...
— The Story Of Kennett • Bayard Taylor

... great difficulty prevented from syncope, and all the maids bustling and passing round Mrs Easy's chair. Everybody appeared excited except Master Jack Easy himself, who, with a rag round his finger, and his pinafore spotted with blood, was playing at bob-cherry, and cared nothing ...
— Mr. Midshipman Easy • Captain Frederick Marryat

... woodpecker cries in the copse, and immediately afterwards flies across the mead, and away to another plantation. Occasionally the spotted woodpecker may be seen here, a little bird which, in the height of summer, is lost among the foliage, but in spring and winter can be observed tapping at the ...
— Nature Near London • Richard Jefferies


More quotes...



Copyright © 2025 Dictionary One.com