4 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Checker \Check"er\ (ch[e^]k"[~e]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Checkered} (ch[e^]k"[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Checkering}.] [From OF. eschequier a chessboard, F. ['e]chiquier. See {Check}, n., and cf. 3d {Checker}.] 1. To mark with small squares like a checkerboard, as by crossing stripes of different colors. [1913 Webster] 2. To variegate or diversify with different qualities, colors, scenes, or events; esp., to subject to frequent alternations of prosperity and adversity. [1913 Webster] Our minds are, as it were, checkered with truth and falsehood. --Addison. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Checkered \Check"ered\ (ch[e^]k"[~e]rd), a. 1. Marked with alternate squares or checks of different color or material. [1913 Webster] Dancing in the checkered shade. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. Diversified or variegated in a marked manner, as in appearance, character, circumstances, etc.; as, a character with a checkered past [1913 Webster] This checkered narrative. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: checkered adj 1: patterned with alternating squares of color [syn: {checked}, {chequered}] 2: marked by changeable fortune; "a checkered business career" From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 35 Moby Thesaurus words for "checkered": 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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