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patchy
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective patchy has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
patchy, a.
Full of, or covered with, patches; abounding in patches. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
patchy, adj. (patchier, patchiest)
1 uneven in quality.
2 having or existing in patches.
1 uneven in quality.
2 having or existing in patches.
Derivative
patchily adv. patchiness n.
THESAURUS
patchy
adulterated, amalgamated, ambiguous, ambivalent, amphibious, arrested, bespangled, blemished, blended, blotched, blotchy, broken, broken off, callow, capricious, careening, catchy, chopped-off, choppy, combined, complex, composite, compound, compounded, conglomerate, damaged, dappled, decousu, defective, deficient, desultory, deviative, disconnected, discontinued, discontinuous, discrete, disjunctive, dotted, dotty, dowdy, down-at-heel, down-at-the-heels, eccentric, eclectic, embryonic, episodic, equivocal, erratic, erroneous, failing, fallible, faulty, fifty-fifty, fitful, flea-bitten, flecked, fleckered, flickering, fluctuating, found wanting, frayed, frazzled, frecked, freckled, freckly, full of holes, guttering, half-and-half, halting, herky-jerky, heteroclite, heterogeneous, holey, hypoplastic, immature, immethodical, impaired, imperfect, imprecise, impure, in arrear, in arrears, in default, in rags, in short supply, in shreds, in tatters, inaccurate, inadequate, incoherent, incomplete, inconstant, indiscriminate, inexact, infant, intermittent, intermitting, interrupted, intricate, ironic, irregular, jagged, jerky, jumbled, lacking, lurching, macular, maculate, maculated, makeshift, many-sided, mediocre, medley, mingled, miscellaneous, missing, mixed, motley, multifaceted, multinational, multiracial, needing, noncontinuous, nonlinear, nonsequential, nonserial, nonuniform, not perfect, off, parenthetic, part, partial, peppered, pluralistic, pocked, pockmarked, pocky, pointille, pointillistic, polka-dot, promiscuous, punctated, ragged, raggedy, rambling, ratty, rough, scant, scanty, scrambled, scrappy, scruffy, seedy, shabby, shoddy, short, shy, sketchy, snatchy, spangled, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spastic, specked, speckled, speckledy, speckly, splotched, splotchy, sporadic, spotted, spotty, sprinkled, staggering, stippled, studded, suspended, syncretic, tacky, tattered, tatty, thrown together, torn, uncertain, unconnected, underdeveloped, undeveloped, unequal, uneven, unfinished, unjoined, unmethodical, unmetrical, unperfected, unregular, unrhythmical, unsettled, unsound, unsteady, unsuccessive, unsystematic, unthorough, variable, varied, veering, wandering, wanting, wavering, wobbling, wobbly
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