Mottled synonyms

mŏt'ld

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blotched
Covered in blotches.
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checkered
Divided into squares, or into light and dark patches.
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diverse
Relating to or containing people from different ethnicities and social backgrounds:
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motley
Having many colors; variegated; parti-colored:
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party-colored
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piebald
(Figuratively) Of mixed character, heterogeneous.
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splotched
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spotted
Marked with spots
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variegated
Streaked, spotted, or otherwise marked with a variety of color; very colorful.
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plain (antonym)
Marked by little or no ornamentation or decoration:
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unflecked (antonym)
Not marked with flecks.
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dappled
Spotted; mottled.
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streaked
The characteristic color of a mineral after it has been ground into a powder. Because the streak of a mineral is not always the same as its natural color, it is a useful tool in mineral identification.
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clouded
To become cloudy or overcast:
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stippled
To dot, fleck, or speckle:
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sprinkled
To scatter drops or particles on:
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peppered
Pepper is defined as to sprinkle, or to flavor with the ground peppers.
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freckled
To dot or become dotted with freckles or spots of color.
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flecked
To mark with small spots
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dotted
To mark with or as with a dot
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besprinkled
To sprinkle.
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Mottled Sentence Examples

  • Dustin's face was a mottled mess of emotions.

  • The wild stock is of an olive-green, mottled with dark brown above, and greenish-yellow beneath.

  • A mixed forest of deciduous and conifer trees formed a dense covering of mottled greens.

  • The wing-quills are brownish black, banded with mottled white, and those of the tail, except the middle pair, which are wholly greyish brown, are banded with mottled white at the base and the tip, but dark brown for the rest of their length.

  • This property is usually obtained by mixing soft and hard soaps, or, more rarely, by adding gum tragacanth to a hard soap. In the textile trades the wool scourer employs a neutral olive-oil soap, or, on account of its cheapness, a neutral curd or curd mottled brand; the cotton cleanser, on the other hand, uses an alkaline soap, but for cleaning printed cottons a neutral olive-oil curd soap is used, for, in this case, free alkali and resin are objectionable; olive-oil soap, free from caustic alkali, but often with sodium carbonate, is also used in cleansing silk fibres, although hard soaps free from resin are frequently employed for their cheapness.

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