Meaning of CHECKERED
| Pronunciation: | | 'chekurd
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- [adj] marked by changeable fortune; "a checkered business career"
- [adj] patterned with alternating squares of color
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| | Synonyms: | | changeable, changeful, checked, chequered, patterned |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Check"ered\ (-[~e]rd), a.
1. Marked with alternate squares or checks of different color
or material.
Dancing in the checkered shade. --Milton.
2. Diversified or variegated in a marked manner, as in
appearance, character, circumstances, etc.
This checkered narrative. --Macaulay.
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| | Related Terms: | | able to adapt, adaptable, adjustable, alterable, alterative, changeable, check, checked, ever-changing, flexible, fluid, impermanent, kaleidoscopic, malleable, many-sided, metamorphic, mobile, modifiable, mosaic, movable, mutable, nonuniform, permutable, plaid, plastic, protean, proteiform, resilient, rubbery, supple, tessellate, tessellated, transient, transitory, variable |
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