spackled

Filled with paste

Spackled describes a surface that has been filled or patched with spackle—a paste used to repair cracks and holes in walls before painting.

The past participle works as an adjective: a freshly spackled ceiling, spackled nail holes.

Figuratively, something spackled over has been hastily or superficially covered up: The report spackled over the real problems.

patching

drywall

Gypsum-core building panels

patching · filler · compound · gypsum · mudding · taping · sanding · smoothing · leveling · primer

texture

stucco

Decorative wall plaster

troweled · venetian · pitted · mottled · spattered · flecked · dappled · rough · grainy · bumpy

Opposites
surface repair/filling

spackledunfilled

Not occupied or completed

unpatched · unrepaired · damaged · holey · pitted

surface texture/smoothness

spackledpitted

Seed removed, or opposed

cratered · pockmarked · rough · uneven · scarred

Phrases
Family

spackle, spackles, spackling

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G