patchy

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Adjective
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective patchy has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

patchya. 
     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.

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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