Blotch

Quick meaning: Blotch is a noun meaning An uneven patch of color or discoloration.

Meaning

An uneven patch of color or discoloration.

More Meanings

1. An irregularly shaped area.
2. (figuratively) Imperfection; blemish on one’s reputation, stain.
3. Any of various crop diseases that cause the plant to form spots.
4. A bright or dark spot on old film caused by dirt and loss of the gelatin covering the film, due to age and poor film quality.
5. A dark spot on the skin; a pustule.
6. (transitive) To mark with blotches.
7. (slang) Blotting paper.

Example Sentences

His shirt showed big blotches of moisture, and the sweat was rolling in clear drops along the creases in his brown neck.

Evil places where the wind whistles and the dust grates, places that are blotches of shadow, blotches of rust, blotches of oil: innumerable blotches.

Microscopic and sometimes macroscopic examination of the apparently healthy intervening tissue may reveal the fungus connecting the blotches of diseased tissue.

Snow lay on the croft and river-bank in undulations softer than the limbs of infancy; […] it clothed the rough turnip-field with whiteness, and made the sheep look like dark blotches;

Word Forms

• blotches
• blotching
• blotched

Synonyms for blotch

Depending on context, synonyms include streak, mottle, splodge, splotch.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include splotch, mottle, streak, splodge, stain, spot.

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