|
  • Search Results
  • Advanced Search
  • List Builder
  • Random Word

mottle

DEFINITIONS OF: mottle

1

v mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained

Synonyms:
blotch, streak
Type of:
color, color in, colorise, colorize, colour, colour in, colourise, colourize
add color to

v colour with streaks or blotches of different shades

Synonyms:
cloud, dapple
Types:
harlequin
variegate with spots or marks
speckle, stipple
produce a mottled effect
Type of:
spot
mark with a spot or spots so as to allow easy recognition

n an irregular arrangement of patches of color

“it was not dull grey as distance had suggested, but a mottle of khaki and black and olive-green”
Type of:
color, coloring, colour, colouring
a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect
Launch
WORD FAMILY
USAGE EXAMPLES