dotted
UK/ˈdɒtɪd//ˈdɑtɪd/
dotted is the simple past and past participle of dot.
Adjective
dotted (comparative more dotted, superlative most dotted)
- Made up of a series of dots.
- Please print your name and address clearly on the dotted line.
- That contains dots.
- The dotted name java.util.Scanner is the fully qualified name of the Scanner class.2012, Barry A. Burd, Michael Burton, Donn Felker, Java and Android Application Development For Dummies eBook Set
- With a dot after, increasing the value of the duration by half of the basic note.
- Covered with irregularly scattered objects.
- The woods filtered men and the fields became dotted.1895 October, Stephen Crane, chapter XI, in The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 107
Meaning of dot
Noun
dot (plural dots)
- A small, round spot.
- a dot of colour
- A punctuation mark used to indicate the end of a sentence or an abbreviated part of a word; a full stop; a period.
- The homepage of English Wiktionary is en.wiktionary.org. [read aloud: E-N-dot-wiktionary-dot-org]
- A point used as a diacritical mark above or below various letters of the Latin script, as in Ȧ, Ạ, Ḅ, Ḃ, Ċ.
- A symbol used for separating the fractional part of a decimal number from the whole part, for indicating multiplication or a scalar product, or for various other purposes.
- Synonyms:
- decimal point
- In musical notation, a symbol in the form of a small point placed after a note, indicating that its duration is to be augmented by 50%.
- One of the two symbols used in Morse code.
- The alphabetical signals are made up of combinations of dots and of lines of different lengths.1838, William Hamilton, “Report on Prof. Morse’s Electro-Magnetic Telegraph”, in Journal of the Franklin Institute
- Synonyms:
- dit
Forms of dotted
| comparative | more dotted |
|---|---|
| superlative | most dotted |
Origin of dotted
From dot + -ed.
Words formed from dotted
Phrases with dotted
- dotted down
- dotted lines
- dotted notes
- dotted quads
- polka dotted
- dotted Swisses
- dotted the i's
- dotted decimals
- dotted bar lines
- dotted and carried
- signs on the dotted line
- signed on the dotted line
3 more phrasesFewer phrases
Words that rhyme with dotted
- knotted
- potted
- besotted
- unspotted
- shotted
- spotted
- bedotted
- beknotted
- bicarotid
- carotid
- intracarotid
- misallotted
9 more rhymesFewer rhymes
Questions about dotted
- What does dotted mean?
- Dotted means made up of a series of dots.
- What is dotted the simple past and past participle of?
- Dotted is the simple past and past participle of dot.
- What part of speech is dotted?
- Dotted is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce dotted?
- Dotted is pronounced /ˈdɑtɪd/ (US).
Words near dotted in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: dotted (page history and authors); dot (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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