mottled

American  

[mot-ld] / ˈmɒt ld /

adjective

1. spotted or blotched in coloring.

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mottled British  

/ ˈmɒtəld /

adjective

1. coloured with streaks or blotches of different shades

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Other Word Forms

• unmottled adjective

Etymology

Origin of mottled

First recorded in 1670–80; mottle + -ed ²

Example Sentences

In adults, symptoms can include but are not limited to slurred speech, extreme shivering or muscle pain, severe breathlessness and skin that is mottled or discoloured.

From BBC

In the morning, they passed meadows spotted with purple and red flowers; he saw a group of human-sized creatures, their skin mottled like bark, dancing to a song he could not hear.

From Literature

The edges of the leaf are mottled green, but the center is a brilliant pretty pinkish purple.

From Literature

It wasn’t unlike what she’d worn onstage, the mottled gray complexion, the veins of green, the deep set of her eyes, but what it really looked like was Molly.

From Literature

Skaters say the structure—brutalist water-pumping limbs of mottled white concrete that rise out of the ground near the waterfront—is an icon.

From The Wall Street Journal

Related Words

• marbled
• streaked