'Dappled' definitions:
Definition of 'dappled'
From: WordNet
adjective
Having spots or patches of color [syn: dappled, mottled]
Definition of 'Dappled'
From: GCIDE
- Dapple \Dap"ple\, Dappled \Dap"pled\, a. Marked with spots of different shades of color; spotted; variegated; as, a dapple horse. [1913 Webster]
- Some dapple mists still floated along the peaks. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
- Note: The word is used in composition to denote that some color is variegated or marked with spots; as, dapple-bay; dapple-gray. [1913 Webster]
- His steed was all dapple-gray. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- O, swiftly can speed my dapple-gray steed. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Dappled'
From: GCIDE
- Dapple \Dap"ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dappled; p. pr. & vb. n. Dappling.] To variegate with spots; to spot. [1913 Webster]
- The gentle day, . . . Dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- The dappled pink and blushing rose. --Prior. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'dappled'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acier,
- amalgamated,
- ambiguous,
- ambivalent,
- amphibious,
- ashen,
- ashy,
- blended,
- calico,
- canescent,
- cinereous,
- cinerous,
- clouded,
- combined,
- complex,
- composite,
- compound,
- compounded,
- conglomerate,
- dapple,
- dapple-gray,
- dappled-gray,
- dingy,
- discolor,
- dismal,
- dove-colored,
- dove-gray,
- dreary,
- dull,
- dusty,
- eclectic,
- equivocal,
- fifty-fifty,
- glaucescent,
- glaucous,
- gray,
- gray-black,
- gray-brown,
- gray-colored,
- gray-drab,
- gray-green,
- gray-spotted,
- gray-toned,
- gray-white,
- grayed,
- grayish,
- griseous,
- grizzle,
- grizzled,
- grizzly,
- half-and-half,
- heterogeneous,
- indiscriminate,
- intricate,
- iron-gray,
- ironic,
- jumbled,
- lead-gray,
- leaden,
- livid,
- many-sided,
- marbled,
- medley,
- mingled,
- miscellaneous,
- mixed,
- motley,
- mottled,
- mouse-colored,
- mouse-gray,
- mousy,
- multicolor,
- multicolored,
- multifaceted,
- multihued,
- multinational,
- multiracial,
- parti-colored,
- patchy,
- pearl,
- pearl-gray,
- pearly,
- pepper-and-salt,
- piebald,
- pied,
- pinto,
- pluralistic,
- promiscuous,
- Quaker-colored,
- sad,
- scrambled,
- silver,
- silver-gray,
- silvered,
- silvery,
- skewbald,
- slate-colored,
- slaty,
- smoke-gray,
- smoky,
- sober,
- somber,
- steel-gray,
- steely,
- stone-colored,
- syncretic,
- taupe,
- thrown together,
- varicolored,
- varied,
- versicolor,
- versicolored