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Definitions for Checkered

[1] marked by numerous and various shifts or changes; variegated: a checkered career.
[2] marked by dubious episodes; suspect in character or quality: a checkered past.
[3] marked with squares: a checkered fabric.
[4] diversified in color; alternately light and shadowed: the checkered shade beneath trees.
[5] a small, usually red or black disk of plastic or wood, used in playing checkers.
[6] checkers, Also called, British , draughts .(used with a singular verb ) a game played by two persons, each with 12 playing pieces, on a checkerboard. (in a regenerative furnace) loosely stacked brickwork through which furnace gases and incoming air are passed in turn, so that the heat of the exhaust is absorbed and later transferred to the incoming air.
[7] a checkered pattern.
[8] one of the squares of a checkered pattern.
[9] to mark like a checkerboard.
[10] to diversify in color; variegate.
[11] to diversify in character; subject to alternations: Sorrow and joy have checkered his life.
[12] the usual US spelling of chequer
[13] textiles a variant spelling of chequer (def. 2)
[14] US and Canadian any one of the 12 flat thick discs used by each player in the game of checkers Also called (in Britain and certain other countries): draughtsman
[15] a cashier, esp in a supermarket
[16] an attendant in a cloakroom, left-luggage office, etc

Words related to Checkered

motley, spotted, diversified, variegated, quilted, mutable, patchwork, plaid, checky

Words nearby Checkered

checkedy, checker, checkerberry, checkerbloom, checkerboard, checkered, checkered career, checkered flag, checkered lily, checkers, checkerspot

Origin of Checkered

11250–1300; Middle English checker chessboard < Anglo-French escheker (by aphesis), equivalent to eschec check1 + -er -er2

Other words from Checkered

un·check·ered , adjective

Synonyms for Checkered

diversified, motley, quilted, spotted, variegated, checky, mutable, patchwork, plaid