checkered
English
Adjective
checkered (comparative more checkered, superlative most checkered)
- Divided into squares, or into light and dark patches.
- That is a checkered tablecloth.
- (figurative) Changeable; inconsistent; having variations or uncertainty; marked by many problems or failures.
- 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:
- “What a checkered career!” said Newman.
Derived terms
Translations
divided into squares
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changeable; inconsistent; having variations or uncertainty; marked by many problems or failures
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