spotty

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: spot=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

spotty, a. 

 Full of spots; marked with spots.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

spotty, adj. (spottier, spottiest)
1 marked with spots.
2 patchy, irregular.

Derivative

spottily adv. spottiness n.

THESAURUS

spotty

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

ROGET THESAURUS

spotty

Fewness

N fewness, paucity, small number, small quantity, rarity, infrequency, handful, maniple, minority, exiguity, reduction, weeding, elimination, sarculation, decimation, eradication, 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, unrepeated, rarely, here and there.

Variegation

N variegation, colors, dichroism, trichroism, iridescence, play of colors, polychrome, maculation, spottiness, striae, spectrum, rainbow, iris, tulip, peacock, chameleon, butterfly, tortoise shell, mackerel, mackerel sky, zebra, leopard, cheetah, nacre, ocelot, ophite, mother-of-pearl, opal, marble, check, plaid, tartan, patchwork, marquetry-, parquetry, mosaic, tesserae, strigae, chessboard, checkers, chequers, harlequin, Joseph's coat, tricolor, variegated, 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, spotted, spotty, punctated, powdered, speckled, freckled, flea-bitten, studded, flecked, fleckered, striated, barred, veined, brinded, brindled, tabby, watered, grizzled, listed, embroidered, daedal, naevose, stipiform, strigose, striolate, (iii) PERCEPTIONS OF LIGHT.