Patchy

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Made up of or marked by patches: patchy trousers.
  • adj. Uneven in quality or performance: Their work is patchy at best.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Full of, or covered with, patches; abounding in patches.
  • adj. Not constant or continuous; intermittent or uneven.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Full of, or covered with, patches; abounding in patches.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Full of patches; occurring in patches.
  • Cross; peevish. Compare cross-patch. Trollope.
  • Inharmonious; composed of incongruous parts; lacking unity of design in execution: said especially of a work of art or a piece of decoration.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. irregular or uneven in quality, texture, etc.
  • Equivalent
    uneven   
    Variant
    patchiest    patchier   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    spotty   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Apache    apache    catchy    scratchy   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    wintry    dappled    stubbly    close-cropped    grayish    spiky    golden-brown    sparse    wispy    greyish