spotty
spotty adjective: having spots; spotted.
Adjective
spotty (comparative spottier, superlative spottiest)
- Having spots; spotted.
- Occurring in non-contiguous positions or locations.
- Mobile phone reception in this area tends to be rather spotty.
- Of inconsistent quality.
- Near-synonyms: shoddy, iffy
- Many of the buyers had a spotty credit history.
- Inconsistent: not reliably good, sometimes bad.
- Near-synonyms: shoddy, iffy
- Many of the low-cost accessories (cords, chargers, etc) sold in the dollar store had spotty quality.
Noun
spotty (plural spotties)
- A common New Zealand fish, Notolabrus celidotus
- I went fishing today and all I caught were spotties.
spotty meaning in Tamil and Malayalam
spotty in Tamil
- புள்ளியுடைய
spotty in Malayalam
- പുള്ളികളുള്ള
Synonyms of spotty
Forms of spotty
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | spottier |
| superlative | spottiest |
| Noun | |
| plural | spotties |
Origin of spotty
From Middle English spotty, equivalent to spot + -y.
Words formed from spotty
- spottily
- unspotty
- spottiness
Words that rhyme with spotty
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Questions about spotty
- What does spotty mean?
- Spotty means having spots; spotted.
- What is spotty in Tamil?
- Spotty in Tamil is புள்ளியுடைய. See Spotty meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is spotty?
- Spotty can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near spotty in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: spotty (page history and authors); spotty (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); spotty (Malayalam Wiktionary) (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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