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spotnoun a small area that is different (as in color) from the main partin summer the white coat of the snow leopard is studded with brownish black spots blotch, dapple, dot, eyespot, fleck, mottle, patch, pip, point, speck, speckle, splotch birthmark, freckle, moleblob, blot, mark, smear, smudge, smutch, stainspatter, splashpolka dot a difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escapewe're in a bit of a spot right now with our mortgage payments bind, box, catch-22, corner, dilemma, fix, hole, impasse, jackpot(chiefly West), jam, mire, pickle, predicament, quagmire, rabbit hole, rattrap, sticky wicket, swamp difficulty, nodehot water, souppinch, plight, quandary, scrape, troubledeadlock, halt, logjam, stalemate, standstillclutch, crisis, crossroad, emergency, exigency, juncture, strait kettle of fish a mark of guilt or disgracescandalous conduct that will forever be a spot upon the family name blot, brand, onus, slur, smirch, smudge, stain, stigma, taint black eye, discredit, disesteem, disgrace, dishonor, disrepute, guilt, ignominy, infamy, obloquy, odium, opprobrium, reproach, shamecorruption, debauchery, depravity, immorality, iniquity, licentiousness, sin, unscrupulousness, vice award, credit, honorchasteness, chastity, modesty, purity, stainlessnessgood, righthonesty, integrity, legitimacy, probity, rectitude, scrupulousness, uprightnessgoodness, righteousness, virtuousnessfame, glory, renown, repute a very small amounthad only a spot of stew for dinner, as he wasn't very hungry ace, bit, crumb, dab, dram, driblet, glimmer, hint, lick, little, mite, nip, ounce, particle, peanuts, ray, scintilla, scruple, shade, shadow, shred, skosh, smack, smell, smidgen(also smidgeon or smidgin or smidge), snap, soupçon, spark, spatter, speck, splash, sprinkling, strain, streak, suspicion, tad, touch, trace hoot, iota, jot, minim, minimum, modicum, semblance, syllable, tittle, vestige, whitatom, dot, fleck, flyspeck, grain, granule, molecule, morsel, mote, nubbin, patch, scrapdash, drop, pinchpart, portion, sectionbite, nibble, tastehandful, scattering, smatter, smatteringdose, shotchip, flake, fragment, shard, shiver, sliver, smithereens, splintertatterclipping, paring, shaving drop in the bucket abundance, barrel, boatload, bucket, bundle, bushel, deal, fistful, gobs, heaps, lashings(also lashins, chiefly British), loads, lot, mass, mess, mountain, much, oodles, passel, peck, pile, plenty, potful, profusion, quantity, raft, reams, scads, stack, wad, wealthvolumebonanza, embarrassment, excess, overabundance, overage, overflow, overkill, overmuch, oversupply, superabundance, superfluity, surfeit, surpluschunk, hunk, lump, slab the area or space occupied by or intended for somethingthe cat grabbed my spot on the couch the minute I stood up emplacement, locale, locality, location, locus, place, point, position, site, venue, where sceneprecinct, region, section, sectorhere, there spotverbto mark with small spots especially unevenlyto give the effect of sunlight on water, the artist spotted the lake in his painting with flecks of gold paint blotch, dapple, dot, fleck, freckle, marble, mottle, pepper, shoot, speck, speckle, splotch, sprinkle, stipple blot, dye, stainband, bar, streak, stripeintersperse, set, studbespatter, spatter to make note of (something) through the use of one's eyesI spotted both of them as they tried to sneak out the back door behold, catch, descry, discern, distinguish, espy, eye, look (at), note, notice, observe, perceive, regard, remark, see, sight, spy, view, witness identify, make out, pick out, pick upattend (to), consider, heed, mark, mindstudy, watchexamine, inspect, scan, scrutinize, surveyglance (at), glimpse, peer (at) get a load of(slang), lay eyes on, set eyes on disregard, ignore, neglect, overpass, pass overmiss, overlook to cover by or as if by scattering something over or onthe TV networks had spotted reporters all over the state for the election bestrew, dot, pepper, scatter, sow, spray, sprinkle, strew blanket, drizzle, duststuddapple, fleck, speckle, stipplebespatter, spatter before the 12th century |