checkered - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
English
Adjective
checkered (comparative more checkered, superlative most checkered)
- Divided into a grid of squares of alternating colours or shades, or into light and dark patches.
- ✤ That is a checkered tablecloth.
- (figurative) Changeable; inconsistent; having variations or uncertainty; marked by many problems or failures.
- ✤ “What a checkered career!” said Newman.1
Verb
checkered
- simple past and past participle of checker
Etymology
From checker + -ed.
Pronunciation
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Footnotes
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1876 October, Henry James, Jr., chapter XII, in The American, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, […], published 5 May 1877, →OCLC, page 197: ↩