adj
Meaning 1
Discoloured by spots; stained.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
spotted
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
-
spŏtʹĭd
-
Received-Pronunciation: [ˈspɒtɪ̈d]
-
Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
-
[ˈspɑɾɪ̈d]
-
rhymes with -ɒtɪd
-
CMU ARPABET: S P AA1 T IH0 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Characterized by spots (used especially of animals and plants).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: no-comparative, superlative
Examples
- a spotted hyena
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
simple past and past participle of spot
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, participle, past
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 4
having spots or patches (small areas of contrasting color or texture)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a field patched with ice and snow
- the wall had a spotty speckled effect
- a black-and-white spotted cow
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: patched, spotty
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
58 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: مُنَقَّط (munaqqaṭ) — discoloured by spots; stained
- Arabic: أَرْقَط (ʔarqaṭ) — discoloured by spots; stained
- Bulgarian: изцапан (izcapan) — discoloured by spots; stained
- Chickasaw: waaka — discoloured by spots; stained
- Finnish: tahrainen — discoloured by spots; stained
- German: befleckt — discoloured by spots; stained
- Hungarian: foltos — discoloured by spots; stained
- Ingrian: plekikas — discoloured by spots; stained
- Irish: ballach — discoloured by spots; stained
- Italian: macchiato — discoloured by spots; stained
- Italian: maculato — discoloured by spots; stained
- Latin: maculatus — discoloured by spots; stained
- Māori: purepure — discoloured by spots; stained
- Māori: kōpurepure — discoloured by spots; stained
- Māori: korotiwhatiwha — discoloured by spots; stained
- Russian: запя́тнанный (zapjátnannyj) — discoloured by spots; stained
- Scottish Gaelic: ballach — discoloured by spots; stained
- Scottish Gaelic: breac — discoloured by spots; stained
- Spanish: moteado — discoloured by spots; stained
- Spanish: manchado — discoloured by spots; stained
- Tày: cán — discoloured by spots; stained
- Amharic: ቡራቡሬ (burabure) — characterized by spots
- Arabic: أَبْرَش (ʔabraš) — characterized by spots
- Arabic: ابرش (abraš) — characterized by spots
- Bulgarian: петнист (petnist) — characterized by spots
- Bulgarian: на петна (na petna) — characterized by spots
- Chickasaw: waaka — characterized by spots
- Finnish: täplikäs — characterized by spots
- Finnish: pilkullinen — characterized by spots
- German: gesprenkelt — characterized by spots
- Ancient Greek: βαλιός (baliós) — characterized by spots
- Ancient Greek: ῥαντός (rhantós) — characterized by spots
- Hungarian: pöttyös — characterized by spots
- Ingrian: pläkikäs — characterized by spots
- Irish: breac — characterized by spots
- Irish: ballach — characterized by spots
- Italian: macchiato — characterized by spots
- Italian: maculato — characterized by spots
- Latin: sparsus — characterized by spots
- Malayalam: പൊട്ടൻ (poṭṭaṉ) — characterized by spots
- Māori: ingoingo — characterized by spots
- Māori: tāingoingo — characterized by spots
- Māori: kōtingotingo — characterized by spots
- Māori: tingotingo — characterized by spots
- Māori: kōpatapata — characterized by spots
- Māori: kōpurepure — characterized by spots
- Old English: cylu — characterized by spots
- Plautdietsch: schakjich — characterized by spots
- Polish: pstry — characterized by spots
- Polish: cętkowany — characterized by spots
- Russian: пятни́стый (pjatnístyj) — characterized by spots
- Sanskrit: शर्वर (śarvara) — characterized by spots
- Sanskrit: पृषत् (pṛṣat) — characterized by spots
- Scottish Gaelic: ballach — characterized by spots
- Scottish Gaelic: breac — characterized by spots
- Spanish: moteado — characterized by spots
- Ottoman Turkish: آلا (ala) — characterized by spots
- Ottoman Turkish: چوپورلو (çopurlu) — characterized by spots
Real reading context