Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
freckly

freckly

1 3.0
Having many small brown spots on skin or other things
  • adjective
  • /ˈfrɛkli/
translation icon : pecoso
  • With her freckly complexion, she wore her summer dress proudly at the beach.

Examples

  • Much like the freckly nymphet in gym class, I never quite got the appeal for "Heathers" (1989).

    Blog text (19)

  • So it's not totally blocking out like my freckles or a bit of my redness, but it doesn't look freckly or red.

  • Here where the sun hits and I get extra freckly and I take this down my nose as well.

  • So it really is for those hypersensitive kind of Fair skin, maybe freckly people that just don't tan and maybe burn a lot.

  • Tufts of hair rose up like weeds; his freckly nose sniffled.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • "I look to Julianna, who crinkles up her freckly forehead and nods, but slides the hand up to her ear again.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • When I was growing up in Stockton, I was the shyest kid, and I was quite an awkward, skinny, ginger, freckly girl, and I hated school, I hated growing up, and then I moved to London and just reinvented myself.

    Sound It Out (2011)

  • How's my color make it any better for me?" He clicks his flat hazel eyes twice, runs his freckly hand over his crewcut, sliding his paper hat a couple notches to the left.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • The little girl had a freckly face after playing in the sun all afternoon.

  • He noticed her freckly arms as she lifted her hand to wave hello.

Synonyms

freckled
vsfreckly
10 2.7

Having many small light brown spots on the skin from being in the sun

is a general description of many small skin spots without naming the cause
spotted
vsfreckly
2 1.0

Having spots or patches of a different color

is restricted to many small skin spots, often light brown in tone
speckled
vsfreckly
1 2.8

Covered with many small spots of a different color

refers specifically to such patterns when they appear on the skin
bespeckled
vsfreckly
1 7.1

Having small spots on the surface

applies specifically to many small spots on skin rather than any surface
lentiginous
vsfreckly
  • Specialized
9.9

Having many small brown spots on the skin like freckles

is the common everyday label for the same kind of skin spotting
lentiginose
vsfreckly
  • Specialized
9.9

Having many small brown spots on the skin like freckles

is the plain descriptive term rather than a technical medical label
brown-speckled
vsfreckly
3.0

Having small brown spots often seen on eggs or feathers

focuses on many small skin spots, not just the brown color detail
brownish-speckled
vsfreckly
3.9

Covered with small brown spots

specifies brown tone, while the key focuses on general skin spotting
speckly
vsfreckly
3.5

A surface with many small spots like dots on an egg or cloth

narrows that general speckling to skin and often light brown spots
flecked
vsfreckly
4.4

With small spots of a different color

points specifically to many small skin spots rather than scattered color flecks
flyspecked
vsfreckly
7.2

Marked by many small dark spots left by flies

describes natural skin spotting rather than marks caused by insects

How Freckled

freckly
1 3.0
freckled
10 2.7

Surface Forms

freckly positive

Morphology

freckly = freckle (transparent) = freckle + y

Formed by adding the productive adjective-forming suffix '-y' to 'freckle'; meaning 'having freckles' is directly inferable.

Etymology

Freckly comes from the common word freckle plus the ending -y, where -y means 'full of'. The word freckle goes back to an old German word for a small spot, so freckly means 'covered with many small spots', especially on the skin.