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Synonyms & Antonyms of spots
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- in summer the white coat of the snow leopard is studded with brownish black spots
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- we're in a bit of a spot right now with our mortgage payments
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- 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
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Phrases Synonymous with spots
- scandalous conduct that will forever be a spot upon the family name
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- had only a spot of stew for dinner, as he wasn't very hungry
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- aces,
- bits,
- crumbs,
- dabs,
- drams,
- driblets,
- glimmers,
- hints,
- licks,
- little,
- mites,
- nips,
- ounces,
- particles,
- peanuts,
- rays,
- scintillas,
- scruples,
- shades,
- shadows,
- shreds,
- skoshes,
- smacks,
- smells,
- smidgens
- (also smidgeons or smidgins or smidges),
- snaps,
- soupçons,
- sparks,
- spatters,
- specks,
- splashes,
- sprinklings,
- strains,
- streaks,
- suspicions,
- touches,
- traces
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Near Antonyms for spots
- 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
- the cat grabbed my spot on the couch the minute I stood up
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verbSynonyms & Antonyms of spots (Entry 2 of 2)
- to give the effect of sunlight on water, the artist spotted the lake in his painting with flecks of gold paint
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- I spotted both of them as they tried to sneak out the back door
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Phrases Synonymous with spots
- gets a load of
- [slang],
- lays eyes on,
- sets eyes on
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- the TV networks had spotted reporters all over the state for the election
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“Spots.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spots. Accessed 27 May. 2022.
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