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/blɒtʃt/ · adjective
Covered in blotches (“uneven patches of colour or discolouration”)..
1845, Charles Dickens, The Cricket on the Hearth, Chirp the Second, The Blind Girl never knew that ceilings were discoloured, walls blotched and bare of plaster here and there, high crevices unstopped and widening every day, beams mouldering and tending downward.
The Dutch think no People are so much troubled with the Scurvy as they: But they mistake. There are more blotched Faces in one Town in England, than in the whole Dutch Province [...]
Frome turned away again, and taking up his razor stooped to catch the reflection of his stretched cheek in the blotched looking-glass above the wash-stand.
Use blotched when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Blotched means Covered in blotches (“uneven patches of colour or discolouration”)..
Common synonyms include blotchy, spotted, spotty, patterned.
Possible antonyms include blotchless, unblotched.
1845, Charles Dickens, The Cricket on the Hearth, Chirp the Second, The Blind Girl never knew that ceilings were discoloured, walls blotched and bare of plaster here and there, high crevices unstopped and widening every day, beams mouldering and tending downward.
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