Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb spot
6 senses of spot
Sense 1
descry, spot, espy, spy -- (catch sight of)
=> spy, sight -- (catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes; "he caught sight of the king's men coming over the ridge")
Sense 2
spot, recognize, recognise, distinguish, discern, pick out, make out, tell apart -- (detect with the senses; "The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards"; "I can't make out the faces in this photograph")
Sense 3
blemish, spot -- (mar or impair with a flaw; "her face was blemished")
=> dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire -- (make soiled, filthy, or dirty; "don't soil your clothes when you play outside!")
Sense 4
spot, fleck, blob, blot -- (make a spot or mark onto; "The wine spotted the tablecloth")
=> change surface -- (undergo or cause to undergo a change in the surface)
Sense 5
spot -- (become spotted; "This dress spots quickly")
=> change -- (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night")
Sense 6
spot -- (mark with a spot or spots so as to allow easy recognition; "spot the areas that one should clearly identify")
=> mark -- (make or leave a mark on; "the scouts marked the trail"; "ash marked the believers' foreheads")
Antonyms of adj spotted
1 sense of spotted
Sense 1
patched, spotty, spotted -- (having spots or patches (small areas of contrasting color or texture); "a field patched with ice and snow"; "the wall had a spotty speckled effect"; "a black-and-white spotted cow")
INDIRECT (VIA patterned) -> plain, unpatterned -- (lacking patterns especially in color)
Similarity of adj spotted
1 sense of spotted
Sense 1
patched, spotty, spotted -- (having spots or patches (small areas of contrasting color or texture); "a field patched with ice and snow"; "the wall had a spotty speckled effect"; "a black-and-white spotted cow")
=> patterned (vs. plain) -- (having patterns (especially colorful patterns))