Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to stipple
Participle: stippled
Gerund: stippling
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | stipple |
| you | stipple |
| he;she;it | stipples |
| we | stipple |
| you | stipple |
| they | stipple |
Perfect
| I | have stippled |
| you | have stippled |
| he;she;it | has stippled |
| we | have stippled |
| you | have stippled |
| they | have stippled |
Past
| I | stippled |
| you | stippled |
| he;she;it | stippled |
| we | stippled |
| you | stippled |
| they | stippled |
Pluperfect
| I | had stippled |
| you | had stippled |
| he;she;it | had stippled |
| we | had stippled |
| you | had stippled |
| they | had stippled |
Future
| I | will stipple |
| you | will stipple |
| he;she;it | will stipple |
| we | will stipple |
| you | will stipple |
| they | will stipple |
Future Perfect
| I | will have stippled |
| you | will have stippled |
| he;she;it | will have stippled |
| we | will have stippled |
| you | will have stippled |
| they | will have stippled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | stipple |
| you | stipple |
| he;she;it | stipple |
| we | stipple |
| you | stipple |
| they | stipple |
Perfect
| I | have stippled |
| you | have stippled |
| he;she;it | have stippled |
| we | have stippled |
| you | have stippled |
| they | have stippled |
Imperfect
| I | stippled |
| you | stippled |
| he;she;it | stippled |
| we | stippled |
| you | stippled |
| they | stippled |
Pluperfect
| I | had stippled |
| you | had stippled |
| he;she;it | had stippled |
| we | had stippled |
| you | had stippled |
| they | had stippled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would stipple |
| you | would stipple |
| he;she;it | would stipple |
| we | would stipple |
| you | would stipple |
| they | would stipple |
Perfect
| I | would have stippled |
| you | would have stippled |
| he;she;it | would have stippled |
| we | would have stippled |
| you | would have stippled |
| they | would have stippled |
Imperative
| you | stipple |
| we | Let's stipple |
| you | stipple |
Verbs conjugated like 'stipple'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'stipple'
sipple,
stopple,
tipple,
cripple,
dripple,
flipple,
gripple,
nipple,
ripple,
scapple,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Probably from Dutch stippel (“small dot”), originally applied to the dots themselves and later to the technique.
Sample Sentences
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Don’t you think, Major Vampyre, that eye-brow ſtippled very prettily? [1760, Oliver Goldsmith, “Letter XLVII. From Lien Chi Altangi, to ***** merchant in Amsterdam.”, in The Citizen of the World; or Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, […], volume I, London: […] [F]or the author; and sold by J. Newbery and W. Bristow, […]; J. Leake and W. Frederick, […]; B. Collins, […]; and A. M. Smart and Co. […], published 1762, →OCLC, page 209:]
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The worst drawings that have ever come from [Turner’s] hands are some of this second period, on which he has spent much time and laborious thought; drawings filled with incident from one side to the other, with skies stippled into morbid blue, and warm lights set against them in violent contrast […] [1851, John Ruskin, Pre-Raphaelitism, New York: John Wiley, page 50:]
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There were no footmarks on the ground, for each wind swept like a great brush over the sand surface, stippling the traces of the last travellers till the surface was again a pattern of innumerable tiny virgin waves. [1922, T. E. Lawrence, chapter 41, in Seven Pillars of Wisdom:]
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Outside the car window was a glaze of darkness stippled with the gold of infrequent mysterious lights. [1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 10, in Babbitt:]
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The biennial profusion of campaign billboards and posters stipples the land that Lady Bird wants to beautify and Lyndon yearns to own. [1966 October 14, “Charisma, Calluses and Cash”, in Time:]
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Although he was clean-shaven, black Benday dots traced the narrow pathway of his thin mustache and the stippled edge of his jaw. [1988, Edmund White, chapter 5, in The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 1994:]