| English Dictionary |
DAPPLED
| Pronunciation (US): |  | (GB): | |
Dictionary entry overview: What does dappled mean?
• DAPPLED (adjective)
The adjective DAPPLED has 1 sense:
1. having spots or patches of color
Familiarity information: DAPPLED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having spots or patches of color
Synonyms:
dappled; mottled
Similar:
patterned (having patterns (especially colorful patterns))
Context examples
They were fresh now as a succession of April showers and gleams, followed by a lovely spring morning, could make them: the sun was just entering the dappled east, and his light illumined the wreathed and dewy orchard trees and shone down the quiet walks under them.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
| Learn English with... Proverbs |
"Honey catches more flies than vinegar." (English proverb)
"Absence makes the heart grow fonder." (Thomas Haynes Bayly)
"People are enemies of that which they don't know." (Arabic proverb)
"A cheeky person owns half the world" (Dutch proverb)
"Absence makes the heart grow fonder." (Thomas Haynes Bayly)
"People are enemies of that which they don't know." (Arabic proverb)
"A cheeky person owns half the world" (Dutch proverb)