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# spotty

adjective (spotty, spottier, spottiest)

«spotty» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Spotty means covered with spots or dots, like a spotty dress. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spotty/#m1)
2. Spotty means having pimples on the skin. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spotty/#m2)
3. Spotty (mainly US) can mean not even or not regular, good in some places and bad in others, like a spotty phone signal. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spotty/#m3)

### In the lessons

In descriptive writing, a spotty dog or spotty scarf; in health lessons, spots on the skin can come with chickenpox, measles or teenage acne. In everyday life, Wi-Fi or a phone signal can be spotty. Phrases: «spotty skin», «a spotty signal».

### Examples

- She wore a spotty yellow raincoat. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spotty/#x1)
- Chickenpox makes your skin spotty and itchy. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spotty/#x2)
- The puppy is white and spotty. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spotty/#x3)
- Teenagers sometimes get spotty faces. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spotty/#x4)
- The signal is spotty out in the country. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spotty/#x5)
- His homework was spotty: some answers were great, some were missing. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spotty/#x6)
- I like your spotty socks! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spotty/#x7)

### Note

Adjective: spotty, spottier, spottiest. «Spotted» (with spots) and «spotty» are close, but «spotty» about a person's skin means pimples and can sound unkind. Don't call people spotty; it can hurt feelings.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «spotty» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spotty/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«spotty» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/spotty.html) on Mova free.