dotted

[ dot-id ]

adjective

1. marked with a dot or dots. dot.
2. consisting or constructed of dots. dot.
3. having objects scattered or placed in a random manner:

   a landscape dotted with small houses.

dotted

/ ˈdɒtɪd /

adjective

1. having dots, esp having a pattern of dots
2. music
   1. (of a note) increased to one and a half times its original time value See dot 1
   2. (of a musical rhythm) characterized by dotted notes Compare double-dotted See also notes inégales

Other Words From

• un·dotted adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of dotted¹

First recorded in 1765–75; dot ¹ + -ed ³

Example Sentences

If you need to add more pages or want to supplement your journal with dotted or plain paper, you can get additional inserts.

From Popular-Science

When light hits the retina, its top layer translates photons into electrical signals—the language of the brain—thanks to a group of proteins dotted on its surface, called rhodopsins.

From Singularity Hub 

The red landscape is shown in exquisite detail, dotted hills and ledges as well as craters and small valleys, coming into closer focus as the rover continues to descend.

From MIT Technology Review

Smaller camps dotted canyons and neighborhoods throughout the city.

From Voice of San Diego

If you click on that dotted line or overlay, Google will take you to that third-party site, not the site Google uses for the featured snippet result.

From Search Engine Land

The violence continues, but on a scale diminished since when American bases and outposts dotted the province.

From The Daily Beast

But his file is also dotted with frequent warnings of misconduct.

From The Daily Beast

All around you are farms fields dotted with canted mud structures.

From The Daily Beast

Outside, oak and hickory and pecan trees dotted the rolling grassland.

From The Daily Beast

The white blooms dotted the asphalt and swirled in the breeze under the orange glow of the street lamps.

From The Daily Beast

This the man did drawing his knife in the manner denoted by the dotted lines in the engraving.

From Project Gutenberg

The figures, besides being outlined by the dots, were decorated all over with the same pigment in dotted transverse belts.

From Project Gutenberg

And soon the wooded hills were dotted with small herds moving toward the ford.

From Project Gutenberg

It passes through the copper-mining section of Cornwall and the country is dotted with abandoned mines.

From Project Gutenberg

The fen country faintly reminds one of Holland, lying low and dotted here and there with huge windmills.

From Project Gutenberg