pockmarks
Small pitted scars
Pockmarks are small pits or scars on a surface, especially the skin.
The term originally described the scarring left by smallpox or severe acne—round, shallow depressions that remain after healing.
The meaning extends to any surface with similar indentations: The moon's face is covered with pockmarks from ancient impacts.
As a verb, to pockmark is to leave such marks: Artillery had pockmarked the building's facade.
Marked with bowl-shaped hollows
- pittedSeed removed, or opposed
- dimpledHaving small hollows
- indentationsRecessed marks in surfaces
- depressionsSunken areas or downturns
hollows · cavities · gouges · dents · holes · rough · uneven · marred
Visible surface flaws
- imperfectionsDeviations from the ideal
- disfigurementMarred physical appearance
- scarringPermanent mark formation
- discolorationAltered surface pigmentation
texture · dimpled · pitted · uneven · marred · complexion · dermatology · pigmentation
Gradual wearing away
- weatheringAtmospheric breakdown of materials
- karstEroded soluble rock terrain
- sinkholesGround collapse cavities
- depressionsSunken areas or downturns
basins · gullies · ravines · scarred · landscape · geological · badlands · pitted
Healed wound tissue
- cratersImpact-formed depressions
- pitsSeeds or hollows
- boxcarEnclosed rail freight carrier
- rollingTurning over repeatedly
atrophic · indentations · textured · uneven · dermabrasion · microneedling · resurfacing · fillers
cratered
Marked with bowl-shaped hollows
- pittedSeed removed, or opposed
- dimpledHaving small hollows
- indentationsRecessed marks in surfaces
depressions · hollows · cavities · gouges · dents · holes · rough · uneven · marred · worn
blemishes
Visible surface flaws
- imperfectionsDeviations from the ideal
- disfigurementMarred physical appearance
- scarringPermanent mark formation
discoloration · texture · dimpled · pitted · uneven · marred · complexion · dermatology · pigmentation · spots
erosion
Gradual wearing away
- weatheringAtmospheric breakdown of materials
- karstEroded soluble rock terrain
- sinkholesGround collapse cavities
depressions · basins · gullies · ravines · scarred · landscape · geological · badlands · pitted · worn
scars
Healed wound tissue
rolling · atrophic · indentations · textured · uneven · dermabrasion · microneedling · resurfacing · fillers · hyperpigmentation
scars
Healed wound tissue
aftermath · damage · legacy · signs · ravages · toll · wounds · history · lasting · visible
craters
Impact-formed depressions
- moonNatural planetary satellite
- meteoriteSpace debris reaching Earth
- impactForceful contact or consequence
asteroid · bombardment · regolith · basins · maria · highlands · ejecta · scarred · surface · celestial
- facial featuresnose, chin, freckles, mole, brow
- irregularitiesbumps, dents, ridges, grooves, ripples
- disfigurementsscars, scar, scarring, deformities, deformity
- scarsscar, keloid, cicatrix, scar tissue, burn scar
- surface damagecracks, rust, cracking, peeling, chipping
- roughnessroughness, coarseness, grittiness, bumpiness, abrasiveness
pockmarkssmoothness
Freedom from irregularity
flawlessness · polish · evenness · uniformity · sleekness