different between blotched vs spotted

English

Etymology

From blotch +? -ed.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bl?t?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /bl?t?t/
• Rhymes: -?t?t

Adjective

blotched (comparative more blotched, superlative most blotched)

1. Covered in blotches (“uneven patches of colour or discolouration”).

   Synonyms: blotchy, spotted, spotty

   • 1743, Anonymous, A Description of Holland; or, the Present State of the United Provinces, London: J. & P. Knapton, p. 52,^[1]

     The Dutch think no People are so much troubled with the Scurvy as they: But they mistake. There are more blotched Faces in one Town in England, than in the whole Dutch Province [...]

   • 1845, Charles Dickens, The Cricket on the Hearth, Chirp the Second,^[2]

     The Blind Girl never knew that ceilings were discoloured, walls blotched and bare of plaster here and there, high crevices unstopped and widening every day, beams mouldering and tending downward.

Translations

Verb

blotched

1. simple past tense and past participle of blotch

Anagrams

• Bechtold

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?sp?t?d/
• (General American) enPR: sp?t??d, IPA^(key): /?sp?t??d/, [?sp????d]
• Rhymes: -?t?d
• Hyphenation: spot?ted

Adjective

spotted (comparative more spotted, superlative most spotted)

1. Discoloured by spots; stained.
2. (no comparative or superlative) Characterized by spots (used especially of animals and plants).

   the spotted hyena

Synonyms

• (discoloured by spots): blotched, blotchy, stained, spotty

Translations

Verb

spotted

1. simple past tense and past participle of spot

Derived terms