Synonyms for spot

verb

  1. Stain

    blemish, blotch, splatter; see dirty, spatter.

  2. Point out

    find, detect, recognize; see locate 1.

noun

  1. A dot

    speck, flaw, pimple; see bit 1, blemish.

  2. A place

    point, locality, scene; see place 3.

  3. Small amount

    minute quantity, little bit, pinch; see bit 1.

hit the high spots*
  1. hurry, travel rapidly, make good time*; see speed.

  2. treat hastily, go over lightly, touch up;

hit the spot*

please, delight, taste good, be just right; see satisfy 1.

in a bad spot*

in danger, in trouble, in difficulty, threatened, in a bad situation, on the spot*; see also dangerous 1, 2.

on the spot
  1. Quickly

    immediately, now, at once; see immediately.

  2. *In trouble

    in danger, in difficulty, in a corner.

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See spot in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II


noun
  1. A very small mark:

    dash, dot, fleck, pinpoint, point, speck. See marks
  2. A mark of discredit or disgrace:

    black eye, blemish, blot, onus, stain, stigma, taint, tarnish. (Archaic) attaint. Idiom: a blot on one's escutcheon. See marks, respect
  3. A particular portion of space chosen for something:

    location, locus, place, point. See place
  4. A post of employment:

    appointment, berth, billet, job, office, place, position, situation, slot. (Slang) gig. See place
  5. (Informal)

    A difficult, often embarrassing situation or condition:

    box1, corner, deep water, difficulty, dilemma, Dutch, fix, hole, hot spot, hot water, jam, plight1, predicament, quagmire, scrape, soup, trouble. (Informal) bind, pickle. See easy
  6. (Chiefly British)

    A tiny amount:

    bit1, crumb, dab1, dash, dot, dram, drop, fragment, grain, iota, jot, minim, mite, modicum, molecule, ort, ounce, particle, scrap1, scruple, shred, smidgen, speck, tittle, trifle, whit. See big
verb
  1. To mark or soil with spots:

    bespatter, blotch, spatter, splatter, splotch. See marks
  2. To put in or assign to a certain position or location:

    emplace, install, locate, place, position, set1, site, situate. See place
  3. To perceive, especially barely or fleetingly:

    catch, descry, detect, discern, espy, glimpse, spy. See see
  4. To perceive and fix the identity of, especially with difficulty:

    descry, discern, distinguish, make out, pick out. See see
  5. To look for and discover:

    find, locate, pinpoint. See get
adjective

Having no particular pattern, purpose, organization, or structure:

chance, desultory, haphazard, hit-or-miss, indiscriminate, random, unplanned. See planned

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