Checkered

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Divided into squares.
  • adj. Marked by light and dark patches; diversified in color.
  • adj. Marked by great changes or shifts in fortune: a checkered career.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. Simple past tense and past participle of checker.
  • adj. divided into squares, or into light and dark patches.
  • adj. changeable; inconsistent; having variations or uncertainty
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Marked with alternate squares or checks of different color or material.
  • adj. Diversified or variegated in a marked manner, as in appearance, character, circumstances, etc.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Marked with squares or checkers, like a checker-board; exhibiting squares of different colors; hence, broken into different colors or into lights and shadows.
  • Figuratively, variegated with different qualities, scenes, or events; crossed with good and bad fortune.
  • Having the wing marked with numerous white spots, larger in size and fewer in number than in the condition termed spangled: used in describing breeds of pigeons.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. marked by changeable fortune
  • adj. patterned with alternating squares of color
  • Equivalent
    changeful    changeable    patterned   
    Cross Reference
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    checky    chequée    chequee    cheque   
    Verb Stem
    checker   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    record   
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