Need another word that means the same as “spotted”? Find 14 synonyms and 30 related words for “spotted” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Spotted” are: patched, spotty, mottled, dappled, pied, piebald, brindled, brindle, speckled, speckly, flecked, specked, stippled, dotted
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “spotted” as an adjective can have the following definitions:
| brindle | (especially of a domestic animal) brownish or tawny with streaks of other colour. A brindle pup. |
| brindled | Having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats. |
| dappled | Having spots or patches of color. The horse s dappled flank. |
| dotted | Having gaps or spaces. Sign on the dotted line. |
| flecked | Having a pattern of dots. |
| mottled | Having spots or patches of color. A bird with mottled brown plumage. |
| patched | Mended usually clumsily by covering a hole with a patch. A field patched with ice and snow. |
| piebald | (of a horse) having irregular patches of two colours, typically black and white. A piebald horse. |
| pied | Having two or more different colours. Pied daisies. |
| specked | Having a pattern of dots. |
| speckled | Covered or marked with a large number of small spots or patches of colour. A fine waxy film speckled with yeast cells. |
| speckly | Covered or marked with small spots or patches of colour. The eggs are large and brown and speckly. |
| spotty | Lacking consistency. The golfer hit the ball well but his putting was spotty. |
| stippled | Having a pattern of dots. |
| anteater | A burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to New Guinea. |
| blot | Dry ink with blotting paper. Wind power turbines are a blot on the landscape. |
| brindled | Having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats. |
| cat | A short tapered stick used in the game of tipcat. This West Coast cat had managed him since the early 80s. |
| cheetah | Long-legged spotted cat of Africa and southwestern Asia having nonretractile claws; the swiftest mammal; can be trained to run down game. |
| dappled | Marked with spots or rounded patches. The horse s dappled flank. |
| decorated | Provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction. |
| dotted | Marked with or in the form of dots. A dotted background. |
| fleck | A small particle or speck of something. The minarets are flecked with gold leaf. |
| giraffe | Tallest living quadruped; having a spotted coat and small horns and very long neck and legs; of savannahs of tropical Africa. |
| leonine | Of or resembling a lion or lions. A handsome leonine profile. |
| leopard | The leopard as a heraldic device. A leopard print outfit. |
| lion | A celebrity who is lionized much sought after. |
| motley | Make motley color with different colors. A motley crew of discontents and zealots. |
| mottled | Having spots or patches of color. A bird with mottled brown plumage. |
| ostrich | A person who refuses to face reality or recognize the truth a reference to the popular notion that the ostrich hides from danger by burying its head in the sand. Don t be an ostrich when it comes to security systems. |
| panda | Reddish brown Old World raccoon like carnivore in some classifications considered unrelated to the giant pandas. |
| patterned | Having patterns (especially colorful patterns. Traditional rose patterned wallpaper isn t difficult to find. |
| sloth | Any of several slow-moving arboreal mammals of South America and Central America; they hang from branches back downward and feed on leaves and fruits. The pair had been attacked by a sloth of bears. |
| speckle | Mark with small spots. Speckle the wall with tiny yellow spots. |
| spot | Mark or become marked with spots. The higher rated team spots the lower rated team the difference in their handicaps. |
| stain | Produce or leave stains. Red wine stains the table cloth. |
| stained | Having a coating of stain or varnish. A dark brown stained wood. |
| striped | Marked with or having stripes. A green striped coat. |
| tessellated | Having a checkered or mottled appearance. A tessellated pavement. |
| texture | Give something a rough or uneven texture. A dark shirt of rough texture. |
| tiger | Used in names of tiger moths and striped butterflies e g scarlet tiger plain tiger. Despite his wound he still fought like a tiger. |
| variegate | Make more diverse or varied. The musicians variegate the pitch. |
| variegated | Exhibiting different colours, especially as irregular patches or streaks. Variegated foliage. |
| zebra | A silvery-gold sea bream with vertical black stripes. |
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