🤪 Slightly crazy 🔵 With dots 😍 Very fond

dotty

1 4.6

Having a pattern of small dots

adjective
/ˈdɑːti/

: de lunares

He chose a dotty wallpaper for the nursery, which had cheerful patterns of small colorful spots.

Examples

The artist painted a dotty landscape, using tiny dots of various colors to create a vibrant scene.
This is the Jelena top net dotty rose in size extra small.
Click on wmap2010.png (the funny dotty blue map) and see how even it isn't...

Blog text (4)
Metlox Poppytrail with a very cool pattern: a multicolored rooster encircled by a wavy, dotty border.

Fiction book (1999)
The dress she wore to the party was dotty, featuring a playful pattern of bright polka dots.

Synonyms

polka dot

vsdotty

18 2.7

A pattern of many evenly spaced round dots on clothes or fabric

is a broader label for any small-dot design not only regular circles

pointillistic

vsdotty

Specialized

1 9.8

Using many small dots to make a picture

names the simpler small-dot surface pattern rather than an artistic composing method

dotted

vsdotty

2.4

Having small dots on it

is the same idea expressed using a different form

stippled

vsdotty

Specialized

7.2

A surface covered with many small dots, often made by paint or ink

refers to a general small-dot surface pattern not limited to art techniques

Idioms

a bit dotty

8.5

A little strange in a kind, harmless way

Compounds

dotty sense of humor

8.6

A playful, slightly odd way of making jokes that surprises people

How Dotted

dotty

1 4.6

dotted

2.4

speckled

1 2.8

flecked

4.4

spotted

2 1.0

Surface Forms

dotty positive

dottier comparative

dottiest superlative

Morphology

dotty = dot (transparent) = dot + ty

The meaning of having a dotted design is directly derivable from 'dot'.

Etymology

Dotty is formed from dot plus -y, where dot means 'a small spot', so dotty means 'covered with small spots'. That's why a dotty dress or wallpaper has a dotted design.