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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. having spots or patches (small areas of contrasting color or texture);
- Example: "a field patched with ice and snow"
- Example: "the wall had a spotty speckled effect"
- Example: "a black-and-white spotted cow"
[syn: patched, spotty, spotted]

2. lacking consistency;
- Example: "the golfer hit the ball well but his putting was spotty"
[syn: spotty, uneven, scratchy]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Spotty \Spot"ty\ (sp[o^]t"t[y^]), a. Full of spots; marked with spots. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

spotty adj 1: having spots or patches (small areas of contrasting color or texture); "a field patched with ice and snow"; "the wall had a spotty speckled effect"; "a black-and-white spotted cow" [syn: patched, spotty, spotted] 2: lacking consistency; "the golfer hit the ball well but his putting was spotty" [syn: spotty, uneven, scratchy]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

152 Moby Thesaurus words for "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