variegate

The word “variegate” has 4 syllables: va-ri-e-gate

It's pronounced as /ˈvɛriəˌɡeɪt/


What is synonym and antonym for variegate?

In the thesaurus, “variegate” has 32 synonyms and 4 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for variegate along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for variegate

  • band
  • bepaint
  • brighten
  • checker
  • color
  • dapple
  • darken
  • daub
  • dye
  • embrown
  • fleck
  • lighten
  • marble
  • mottle
  • paint
  • pattern
  • pigment
  • polychrome
  • slash
  • smear
  • speck
  • speckle
  • spot
  • stain
  • strake
  • streak
  • striate
  • stripe
  • tincture
  • tinge
  • tint
  • vein

Antonyms for variegate

Meanings of variegate

  • verb
    1. To add variety to something.
    2. To change the appearance of something, especially by covering with patches or streaks of different colour.
    3. To dapple.
  • adjective
    1. Variegated.

Example Sentences

  • The artist sought to variegate the colors in her painting to create a vibrant composition.
  • The garden was meticulously designed to variegate the flower beds with different hues and textures.
  • To create a more dynamic visual effect, the designer decided to variegate the fabric patterns in the upholstery.
  • The chef used a variety of spices to variegate the flavors in the dish, creating a harmonious taste.
  • The architect's vision was to variegate the building's facade with alternating patterns of glass and metal.

On this page you'll find 36 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to variegate, such as: band, bepaint, blanch, bleach, brighten, checker, color.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

maculate

  • abuse
  • adulterate
  • adulterated
  • alloyed
  • bedraggle
  • befoul
  • befouled
  • begrime
  • begrimed
  • bemired
  • besmirch
  • besmirched
  • bespatter
  • bespeckle
  • besprinkle
  • blended
  • blot
  • blotch
  • blotchy
  • cheapened
  • checkered
  • coalesced
  • combined
  • commingled
  • compounded
  • contaminate
  • contaminated
  • corrupted
  • crumb
  • dapple
  • dappled
  • debase
  • debased
  • defile
  • defiled
  • deflower
  • degrade
  • desecrate
  • dilute
  • diluted
  • dirtied
  • dirty
  • discolor
  • disgrace
  • dishonor
  • doctored
  • dot
  • dust
  • fleck
  • flecked
  • foul
  • fouled
  • freckled
  • grime
  • hurt
  • impure
  • incorporated
  • intermingled
  • intermixed
  • make foul
  • marble
  • marbled
  • merged
  • mess
  • mess up
  • mingled
  • mixed
  • molest
  • motley
  • mottle
  • muck
  • muck up
  • muddy
  • muss
  • muss up
  • pepper
  • piebald
  • pied
  • pimple
  • pollute
  • polluted
  • profane
  • rape
  • ravish
  • scuzz up
  • seduce
  • shame
  • skewbald
  • smear
  • smudge
  • soil
  • soiled
  • spatter
  • speck
  • speckle
  • splash
  • splotch
  • spoil
  • spoiled
  • spot
  • spotted
  • stain
  • stipple
  • streak
  • streaked
  • stripe
  • stud
  • sullied
  • sully
  • tabby
  • taint
  • tainted
  • tar
  • tarnish
  • thinned
  • trash
  • unclarified
  • unfiltered
  • unrefined
  • variegate
  • variegated
  • vitiate
  • weakened

daub

  • anoint
  • bedaub
  • befoul
  • begrime
  • bemire
  • besmear
  • besmirch
  • bespray
  • blacken
  • blur
  • caricature
  • cartoon
  • coat
  • collage
  • colly
  • confuse
  • contaminate
  • cover
  • crock
  • dab
  • deface
  • defile
  • delineation
  • depiction
  • diagram
  • dirty
  • disarrange
  • disarray
  • discolor
  • dishevel
  • disorder
  • distain
  • doodle
  • draggle
  • drawing
  • etching
  • finger painting
  • fleck
  • foul
  • gaum
  • grease
  • grime
  • gum
  • hieroglyph
  • hieroglyphic
  • icon
  • ideogram
  • ideograph
  • ikon
  • illustration
  • image
  • jumble
  • lard
  • likeness
  • mess
  • mire
  • montage
  • muck
  • muddle
  • muddy
  • oil
  • paint
  • photograph
  • pictograph
  • picture
  • pitch
  • plaster
  • pollute
  • portrait
  • representation
  • resemblance
  • silhouette
  • sketch
  • slap on
  • smear
  • smirch
  • smudge
  • soil
  • spatter
  • speckle
  • splatter
  • spot
  • spread
  • stain
  • sully
  • taint
  • tar
  • variegate
  • varnish
  • view
  • watercolor

paint

  • acrylic
  • bepaint
  • brighten
  • brush
  • camo
  • camouflage
  • catch a likeness
  • characterize
  • checker
  • chroma
  • coat
  • cold cream
  • color
  • coloring
  • compose
  • cosmetic
  • cosmetics
  • cover
  • cover up
  • cream
  • dapple
  • darken
  • daub
  • decorate
  • define
  • delineate
  • demonstrate
  • depict
  • describe
  • design
  • display
  • draft
  • draw
  • dye
  • embrown
  • emulsion
  • enamel
  • exhibit
  • eye shadow
  • figure
  • flat
  • fleck
  • fresco
  • gloss
  • gloss over
  • greasepaint
  • hint
  • illustrate
  • image
  • kohl
  • label
  • latex
  • lighten
  • limn
  • lipstick
  • lotion
  • makeup
  • maquillage
  • marble
  • mascara
  • mottle
  • narrate
  • oil
  • ornament
  • outline
  • overlay
  • pattern
  • picture
  • pigment
  • polychrome
  • portray
  • powder
  • put on coats
  • qualify
  • recite
  • recount
  • redescribe
  • rehearse
  • reimage
  • relate
  • render
  • report
  • represent
  • rouge
  • set out
  • shade
  • show
  • silhouette
  • sketch
  • slap on
  • slather
  • speck
  • speckle
  • stain
  • stipple
  • streak
  • striate
  • stripe
  • suggest
  • sum up
  • summarize
  • swab
  • tell
  • tempera
  • tincture
  • tinge
  • tint
  • touch off
  • touch up
  • trace
  • vanishing cream
  • variegate
  • varnish
  • veneer
  • vignette
  • war paint
  • wash
  • wax

varies

  • alter
  • alternate
  • alternates
  • alters
  • assort
  • be unlike
  • betters
  • blow hot and cold
  • changes
  • commutes
  • contrasts
  • convert
  • converts
  • deforms
  • depart
  • deteriorates
  • deviate
  • deviates
  • differ
  • differs
  • digress
  • disagree
  • displace
  • dissent
  • divaricate
  • diverge
  • diverges
  • diversify
  • divide
  • divides
  • exchanges
  • extends
  • fluctuate
  • fluctuates
  • goes
  • hem and haw
  • improves
  • inflect
  • interchange
  • makes over
  • metamorphoses
  • modifies
  • modify
  • morphs
  • moves
  • mutate
  • mutates
  • part
  • permutate
  • range
  • ranges
  • reaches
  • recasts
  • redoes
  • refashions
  • regenerates
  • rejiggers
  • remakes
  • remodels
  • retools
  • revamps
  • revises
  • revolutionizes
  • reworks
  • runs
  • seesaws
  • separate
  • separates
  • shifts
  • shilly-shally
  • snaps
  • stretches
  • sweeps
  • swerve
  • take turns
  • teeters
  • transfigures
  • transform
  • transforms
  • transmutes
  • turn
  • turns around
  • vacillates
  • variegate
  • wavers
  • worsens
  • yo-yo

yo-yo

  • about-face
  • act reciprocally
  • airhead
  • alter
  • alternate
  • any way the wind blows
  • arbitrary
  • ass
  • assort
  • be indecisive
  • be irresolute
  • be unable to decide
  • be undecided
  • be unlike
  • beast
  • bend
  • berk
  • birdbrain
  • blockhead
  • blow hot and cold
  • blowing hot and cold
  • bonehead
  • boob
  • booby
  • boor
  • born fool
  • bottom out
  • bubblehead
  • bubbleheaded
  • budge
  • buffoon
  • buoyant
  • butt
  • bypass
  • cad
  • capricious
  • careen
  • careless
  • cavil
  • change
  • change gears
  • change mind
  • changeable
  • changeful
  • character
  • charley
  • charlie
  • cheating
  • chowderhead
  • chucklehead
  • chump
  • churl
  • circumvent
  • clod
  • clodpate
  • clodpole
  • clodpoll
  • clot
  • clown
  • cluck
  • clunk
  • codger
  • come and go
  • contrary
  • convert
  • cook
  • coquettish
  • crackbrain
  • crackpot
  • crank
  • creep
  • cretin
  • crotchety
  • cuckoo
  • cuddie
  • cuddy
  • cur
  • daredevil
  • deadhead
  • deliberate
  • depart
  • deviate
  • dial back
  • differ
  • digress
  • dilly-dally
  • dim bulb
  • dimwit
  • ding-a-ling
  • ding-dong
  • dingbat
  • dip
  • dipstick
  • disagree
  • dislocate
  • displace
  • dissent
  • disturb
  • dither
  • divaricate
  • diverge
  • diversify
  • divide
  • do up
  • dodge
  • dodo
  • dolt
  • donkey
  • doofus
  • dope
  • dork
  • double-crossing
  • drift
  • duck
  • dullard
  • dum-dum
  • dumb cluck
  • dumbbell
  • dumbhead
  • dumdum
  • dummkopf
  • dummy
  • dunce
  • dunderhead
  • dupe
  • ebb and flow
  • effervescent
  • elastic
  • elude
  • equivocate
  • erratic
  • eschew
  • evade
  • every which way
  • exchange
  • expansive
  • faithless
  • falter
  • fanciful
  • fathead
  • fault
  • featherbrain
  • featherhead
  • fence-straddle
  • fickle
  • fill in for
  • fitful
  • flaky
  • flexible
  • flicker
  • flighty
  • flip
  • flip-flop
  • fluctuate
  • fluctuating
  • fluid
  • flutter
  • follow
  • follow in turn
  • fool
  • freakish
  • frivolous
  • fudge
  • gaga
  • gander
  • gawk
  • gay
  • git
  • go up and down
  • golem
  • goof
  • goon
  • goose
  • half-wit
  • halt
  • hammerhead
  • hardhead
  • hedge
  • heel
  • helter-skelter
  • hem and haw
  • hesitate
  • hover
  • humorsome
  • idiot
  • iffy
  • ignoramus
  • imbecile
  • impulsive
  • incline
  • inconstant
  • inflect
  • interchange
  • intersperse
  • irregular
  • irrepressible
  • irresolute
  • jackass
  • jerk
  • jughead
  • kinky
  • know-nothing
  • knucklehead
  • kook
  • lamebrain
  • laughingstock
  • lean
  • lighthearted
  • lively
  • loggerhead
  • loon
  • loony
  • loser
  • lubricious
  • lummox
  • lump
  • lunatic
  • lunkhead
  • lurch
  • mad
  • madman
  • madwoman
  • meathead
  • mercurial
  • mobile
  • mockery
  • modify
  • mome
  • monkey
  • moody
  • mooncalf
  • moron
  • movable
  • move
  • move around
  • move over
  • mug
  • mutable
  • mutate
  • mutt
  • natural
  • nimrod
  • nincompoop
  • ninny
  • ninnyhammer
  • nit
  • nitwit
  • noddy
  • noodle
  • notional
  • numbskull
  • numskull
  • nut
  • nutcase
  • oaf
  • odd
  • oddball
  • oscillate
  • palter
  • part
  • pause
  • pea brain
  • pendulate
  • permutate
  • picky
  • pinhead
  • prat
  • protean
  • pulsate
  • punchy
  • pussyfoot
  • pussyfoot around
  • quibble
  • quicksilver
  • quirky
  • quiver
  • range
  • ratbag
  • rearrange
  • recalibrate
  • reel
  • relieve
  • relocate
  • remove
  • replace
  • reposition
  • resilient
  • rise and fall
  • rock
  • roll
  • rotate
  • run hot and cold
  • sap
  • saphead
  • scatterbrain
  • schlemiel
  • schlub
  • schlump
  • schnook
  • screwball
  • seesaw
  • separate
  • shake
  • shift
  • shifting
  • shifty
  • shilly-shally
  • ship
  • shirk
  • shlemiel
  • shlub
  • shuffle
  • shun
  • sidestep
  • simp
  • simpleton
  • skirt
  • skunk
  • slippery
  • snake
  • sneaking
  • spasmodic
  • spirited
  • sprightly
  • stagger
  • stinker
  • stir
  • stock
  • straddle
  • stupe
  • stupid
  • stupid person
  • substitute
  • swap places
  • sway
  • swerve
  • swing
  • switch over
  • tack
  • take turns
  • teeter
  • temperamental
  • tergiversate
  • thickhead
  • ticklish
  • totter
  • transfer
  • transform
  • transmogrify
  • transpose
  • tremble
  • trim
  • turkey
  • turn
  • turn around
  • turn the corner
  • turn the tables
  • two-timing
  • uncertain
  • undulate
  • unequable
  • unfaithful
  • unpredictable
  • unreasonable
  • unsettled
  • unstable
  • unsteady
  • untrue
  • up and down
  • up-and-down
  • vacillate
  • vacillating
  • vagarious
  • variable
  • variegate
  • vary
  • veer
  • vibrate
  • villain
  • volatile
  • waffle
  • waffling
  • wave
  • waver
  • wavering
  • wayward
  • weasel
  • weave
  • weirdo
  • whiffle
  • whimsical
  • witling
  • wobble
  • woodenhead
  • yahoo
  • zany

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