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Synonyms and Antonyms of spots
- in summer the white coat of the snow leopard is studded with brownish black spots
- we're in a bit of a spot right now with our mortgage payments
binds, boxes, catch-22's (or catch-22s), corners, dilemmas, fixes, holes, impasses, jackpots [chiefly West], jams, mires, pickles, predicaments, quagmires, rabbit holes, rattraps, sticky wickets, swamps
- scandalous conduct that will forever be a spot upon the family name
- had only a spot of stew for dinner, as he wasn't very hungry
aces, bits, crumbs, dabs, drams, driblets, glimmers, hints, licks, little, mites, nips, ounces, particles, peanuts, rays, scintillae (or scintillas), scruples, shades, shadows, shreds, skoshes, smacks, smells, smidgens (also smidgeons), snaps, soupçons, sparks, spatters, specks, splashes, sprinklings, strains, streaks, suspicions, touches, traces
hoots, iotas, jots, minims, minima (or minimums), modicums, semblances, syllables, tittles, vestiges, whits
atoms, dots, flecks, flyspecks, grains, granules, molecules, morsels, motes, nubbins, patches, scraps
handfuls (also handsful), scatterings, smatters, smatterings
chips, flakes, fragments, shards, shivers, slivers, smithereens, splinters
abundances, barrels, boatloads, buckets, bundles, bushels, deals, fistfuls, gobs, heaps, lashings (also lashins) [chiefly British], loads, lots, masses, messes, mountains, much, oodles, passels, pecks, piles, plenties, potfuls, profusions, quantities, rafts, reams, scads, stacks, wads, wealths
bonanzas, embarrassments, excesses, overabundances, overages, overflows, overkills, overmuch, oversupplies, superabundances, superfluities, surfeits, surpluses
- the cat grabbed my spot on the couch the minute I stood up
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