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spottier

spottier is the comparative form of spotty.

Meaning of spotty

Adjective

spotty (comparative spottier, superlative spottiest)

  1. Having spots; spotted.
  2. Occurring in non-contiguous positions or locations.
    • Mobile phone reception in this area tends to be rather spotty.
  3. Of inconsistent quality.
    • Near-synonyms: shoddy, iffy
    Synonyms:
    shoddy, iffy
  4. Inconsistent: not reliably good, sometimes bad.
    • Near-synonyms: shoddy, iffy
    Synonyms:
    shoddy, iffy

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Questions about spottier

What is spottier the comparative form of?
Spottier is the comparative form of spotty.

Words near spottier in the dictionary

  1. spotter plane
  2. spotter planes
  3. spotters
  4. spotteth
  5. spottie
  6. spottier
  7. spotties
  8. spottiest
  9. spottily
  10. spottin'
  11. spottiness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spottier (page history and authors); spotty (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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